Recommended books: Zoran Belic

Recommended books/texts for various courses / Summary

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Typograph((ies):

• Philip B. Meggs, A History of Graphic Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2005.

• Johanna Drucker, The Alphabetic Labyrinth, Thames & Hudson, New York, 1995

• Robert Bringhurst, The Fundamentals of Typographic Style, Hartley & Marks Publishers, Washington, 1994

• Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1991.

• Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 2001.

• Edward R. Tufte, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1997.

• Edward R. Tufte, Beautiful Evidence, Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 2006.

• Brody Neuenschwander, Letterwork, Phaidon Press Ltd., London, 1993.

• Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, University of Toronto Press, 1962.

• Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage, Gingko Press, 2003.

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History of Graphic Design:

• Philip B. Meggs, A History of Graphic Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2005.

• Zoran Belic W., Skin, Knife and Gold, Rutgers University/Master Thesis Archive, New Brunswick, 1991

• Victor Margoline and Richard Buchanan (editors), The Idea of Design, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995

• Victor Margoline (editor), Design Discourse, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1989

• Johanna Drucker, The Alphabetic Labyrinth, Thames & Hudson, New York, 1995

• Robert Bringhurst, The Fundamentals of Typographic Style, Hartley & Marks Publishers, Washington, 1994

• Dennis P. Doordan ( editor ), Design History, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995

• Steven Heller and Marie Finamore ( editors ), Design Culture, Allworth Press, New York, 1997

• Rick Poynor, Design Without Boundaries, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London, 1998

• Robert K. Logan, The Fifth Language, Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited, Toronto, 1995.

• Richard A. Lanham, Democracy, Technology and the Arts, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993.

• W.I.Thompson, The American Replacement of Nature, Doubleday, New York, 1991.

• Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Penguin Books, New York, 1986.

• Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, University of Toronto Press, 1962.

• Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man : Critical Edition, Gingko Press, 2003.

• Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage, Gingko Press, 2003.

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Semiotics of Visual Communication:

• C.W. Morris, The Foundations of the Theory of Signs, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago,1953.

• D.S. Clarke, Jr., Principles of Semiotic, Routledge & Kegan Paul, New York,1987.

• Winfried Noth, Handbook of Semiotics, Indiana University Pres, 2006.

• Winfried Noth (editor), Semiotics of the Media: State of the Art, Projects, And Perspectives,

• Roland Barthes, Elements of Semiology, Hill & Wang; Reissue edition, 1977.

• Umberto Eco, Theory of Semiotics, Indiana University Press, 1979.

• Marcel Danesi, Of Cigarettes, High Heels, and Other Interesting Things, St. Martin�s Press, New York, 1999.

Linguistics:

• Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 1 edition, 1965.

• L. Hjelmslev, Prolegomena to a Theory of Language, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1961.

Discourse:

• L. Wittgenstein, The Philosophical Investigations, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, 1968.

• B.L. Whorf, Language,Thought and Reality, Ed. J.B. Carrol, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1956.

• Jacques Lacan, Ecrits, The First Complete Translation in English, W. W. Norton; New Edition, 2005.

• Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis,

Symbolism:

• E. Cassirer, An Essay on Man, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1944.

• C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols, Doubleday, Garden City, 1964.

• Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myths, Doubleday, New York, 1988.

• Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1973.

• Roland Barthes, Mythologies, Hill & Wang, 1973.

• Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society, University Of Chicago Press, 1968.

• Claude Levi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, Basic Books, New Edition 2000.

• Claude Levi-Strauss:

- The Raw and the Cooked : Mythologiques, Volume 1, 1964

- From Honey to Ashes : Mythologiques, Volume 2, 1966

- The Origin of Table Manners : Mythologiques, Volume 3, 1968

- The Naked Man : Mythologiques, Volume 4, 1971

• Claude Levi-Strauss, Myth and Meaning; Cracking the Code of Culture, Schocken, 1995.

• Johanna Drucker, The Alphabetic Labyrinth, Thames & Hudson, New York, 1995

Values:

• Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and The Profane, Harcourt, New York, 1959.

• Zoran Belic W., Skin, Knife and Gold, Rutgers University/Master Thesis Archive, New Brunswick, 1991

Models:

• G. Deleuze & F. Guattari, On the Line, Semiotex(e), New York, 1983.

• G. Deleuze & F. Guattari, Nomadology: The War Machine, Semiotex(e), New York, 1983.

• B.L. Whorf, Language,Thought and Reality, Ed. J.B. Carrol, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1956.

• Slavoj Zizek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, Verso, 1989.

• Umberto Eco, Serendipity, Harvest Books; 1 Harvest edition, 1999.

• Z. Belic W., Models of Design, Unpublished (available upon request), New York, 1991.

Aesthetics and Art:

• W. Tatarkiewicz, The History of Six Ideas, Highoff Hingham, Massachusetts, Distr. by Kluwer, Boston, 1980

Theories of Form & Color:

• M. Ghyka, The Geometry of Life and Art, Dover Publications, New York, 1946, or Kessinger Publishing, 2004

• J. Itten, Rhythm, Design and Form, Thames & Hudson, London, 1975.

• W. Kandinsky, Point and Line to Plane, Dover Publications, NY, 1979.

• L. Wittgenstein, Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology & Religious Belief, Basil Blackwell, London, 1945.

• Kenneth Frempton, Studies in Tectonic Culture – The Poetics and Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Architecture, The MIT Press and Graham Foundation, Cambridge, 1995

History and Art/Design

• Philip B. Meggs, A History of Graphic Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, Latest Edition

• L. Lippard, Overlay, Contemporary Art and the Art of Pre-history, Panteon Books, New York, 1983.

• Dennis P. Doordan ( editor ), Design History, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995

Changing Culture/Design:

• Jean Baudrillard, Simulations (Foreign Agents), Semiotex(e), New York, 1983.

• Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism), University of Michigan Press,1995.

• Thomas L. Friedman, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Anchor Books, New York, 2000.

• Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyper-Reality, Picador, London, 1987.

• Victor Margoline and Richard Buchanan (editors), The Idea of Design, The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995

• Victor Margoline (editor), Design Discourse, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1989

• Steven Heller and Marie Finamore (editors), Design Culture, Allworth Press, New York, 1997

• Rick Poynor, Design Without Boundaries, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London, 1998

• Heinz R. Pagels, The Dreams of Reason – The Computer & the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity, Bantam

• Robert K. Logan, The Fifth Language, Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited, Toronto, 1995.

• Richard A. Lanham, The Electronic Word – Democracy, Technology and the Arts, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993.

• W.I.Thompson, The American Replacement of Nature, Doubleday, New York, 1991.

• Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Penguin Books, New York, 1986.

• Sal Randazzo, Mythmaking on Madison Avenue, Probus Publishing Company, Chicago, 1993.

• Jacques Ellul, Propaganda – the Formation of Men’s Attitudes, Vintage Books Edition, New York, 1973.

• A.R. Pratkanis and Elliot Aranson, Age of Propaganda – The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion, W.H. Freeman, New York, 2001.

• W. McDonough & M Braungart, Cradle to Cradle, North Point Press, New York, 2002.

• Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1991.

• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus; Capitalism and Schizophrenia, University of Minnesota Press, 1987.

• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus; Capitalism and Schizophrenia, University of Minnesota Press; Reprint edition, 1983.

• Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man, University of Toronto Press, 1962.

• Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man : Critical Edition, Gingko Press, 2003.

• Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage, Gingko Press, 2003.

• Marshall McLuhan, The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century, Oxford University Press, 1992.

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Packaging

• Thomas Hine, The Total Package, Back Bay Books, New York, 1997.

• Nancy Williams, The Potential of Paper in Graphic Design, Phaidon Press Limited, London, 1994.

• W. McDonough & M Braungart, Cradle to Cradle, North Point Press, New York, 2002.