Title: Graphic design for the computer age; visual communication for all media
Authors: Hamilton, Edward A.
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
Year: 1970
Subjects: Graphic arts; Communication in art.; Visual communication
Contents: 1. A short history of visual communication -- 2. What is information design? -- 3. The merits of popularization -- 4. The photograph and "picture logic" -- 5. The language of graphics: a visual vocabulary -- 6. Styles and functions of illustration -- 7. Sequence and basic visual organization -- 8. Structure: visual presentation of complex ideas -- 9. The development and use of the picture essay -- 10. A case history of the picture essay -- 11. Color versus black and white -- 12. The "special effect" photograph -- 13. Illustrating the "unseeable" -- 14. The availability of unusual graphic media -- 15. Minor graphic elements -- 16. New elegance in familiar things -- 17. Maps: a style for every problem -- 18. Historical graphic content -- 19. The visual image and human memory -- 20. Designing an innovative teaching curriculum -- 21. The graphic designer and the computer -- 22. Graphic computer capabilities, present and future.Graphic arts.