Re: [NTG-context] [OT] suggestion for books on (typo)graphic design

Ah, thanks Idris, I was thinking about it. My class is in Italian but for a cosmopolitan audience, so English is ok. Best -a- On 21 Feb 2008, at 14:33, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

Hi Andrea,

http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Bringhurst/ dp/0881792063/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1203600674&sr=8-1

is fundamental and indispensable (Zapf calls it the Typographer's Bible), but if your class is in Italian...

Best wishes Idris

On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:00:07 -0700, Andrea Valle wrote:

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Hi to all and sorry for the OT,

but here on the list there are some of the most competent people I know on the topic. I will start a course on graphic communication. The students are ground-zero programmers, all on mac, so I would like to use Nodebox (http://nodebox.net/). (Unluckily no time/space to introduce ConTeXt). I will focus on data visualization, so I was considering to adopt Tufte's classic The Visual Display etc. I've still not read Envisioning Information and Visual Explanations. Any ideas? I will have also to introduce basic elements of graphic communication (e.g. fonts, page composition, color usage etc).

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