Visual Communication


Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
Picture This: How Pictures Work
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas
Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design
Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Complete Maus
On Photography
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently
slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations
Rapid Viz: A New Method for the Rapid Visualization of Ideas
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloudReinventing Comics by Scott McCloudMaking Comics by Scott McCloudThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. TufteUnflattening by Nick Sousanis
Visual Communication
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Design is thinking made visible. Every choice carries responsibility, culture, and understanding. When designers listen before they create, their work moves beyond decoration and becomes communication that lasts.
Qudama Rafiq

Erwin Panofsky
But what is the use of the humanities as such? Admittedly they are not practical, and admittedly they concern themselves with the past. Why, it may be asked, should we engage in impractical investigations, and why should we be interested in the past? The answer to the first question is: because we are interested in reality. Both the humanities and the natural sciences, as well as mathematics and philosophy, have the impractical outlook of what the ancients called vita contemplativa as opposed ...more
Erwin Panofsky, Meaning in the Visual Arts

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