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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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). -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
