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 <valle@di.unito.it> wrote:

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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