From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39244 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [OT] suggestion for books on (typo)graphic design Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:33:36 -0700 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <3EA70420-1204-41A4-99A2-8541B77B80C7@di.unito.it> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203600913 26820 80.91.229.12 (21 Feb 2008 13:35:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:35:13 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Feb 21 14:35:37 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JSBaL-0007dz-J8 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:35:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E46B51FBEF; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:35:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21383-10-17; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:34:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFC91FB57; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:34:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D246B1FB39 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:34:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25326-02-4 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:33:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id E49A71FB3C for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:33:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 11767 invoked by uid 1006); 21 Feb 2008 13:33:48 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(0.1/100.0):. Processed in 1.076663 secs); 21 Feb 2008 13:33:48 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.4) by -v with SMTP; 21 Feb 2008 13:33:47 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28443 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2008 13:33:43 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO your-b27fb1c401) (75.104.84.217) by -v with SMTP; 21 Feb 2008 13:33:43 -0000 In-Reply-To: <3EA70420-1204-41A4-99A2-8541B77B80C7@di.unito.it> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.24 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:39244 Archived-At: 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 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________