Art 102 Graphic Design Theory
Text Anthologies
Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field, Princeton Architectural Press, ed. Helen Armstrong
Design Studies: Theory and Research in Graphic Design, Princeton Architectural Press, ed. Audrey Bennett
Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility, Steven Heller (Editor), Veronique Vienne (Editor)
Looking Closer (I - IV): Classic Writings on Graphic Design (series) ed. Beirut/Helfand/ Heller/Poyner, et al.
Books and Articles
Illuminations, Walter Benjamin, Schocken Books, 1969 (Included essay: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction)
Ways of Seeing, John Berger, Penguin (Non-Classics); Reprint edition, 1990
The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss, The MIT Press; Reprint edition, 1991
The Visible Word, Johanna Drucker, University of Chicago Press; New Ed edition, 1997
Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide, Johanna Drucker, Emily McVarish
This Means This, This Means That: A User's Guide to Semiotics, Sean Hall
Design Writing Research, Ellen Lupton & J. Abbott Miller, Phaidon Press; New Edition, 1999
For the Voice, Written by Vladamir Mayakovsky, Designed by El Lissitzky, MIT Press, 2000
Understanding Comics, the Invisible Art, Scott McCloud, Harper Paperbacks; Reprint
edition, 1994
The Medium Is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, Gingko Press; New Ed edition, 2005
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, 1997
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press; 2nd edition, 2001
edition, 1994
The Medium Is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore, Gingko Press; New Ed edition, 2005
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press, 1997
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward R. Tufte, Graphics Press; 2nd edition, 2001
