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Bibliographic Sources

a collection of readings for further infromation 





Launching the Imagination, Mary Stewart, 2003
Design Basics, David A. Lauer, 1990
Design Dimensions, Cynthia Dantzic 
Ways of Seeing, John Berger
Understanding Comics,  Scott McCloud
Point to Line to Plane, Wassily Kandinsky
Designing with Color, Chris Dorosz & JR Watson, 2010
Art and Visual Perception, Rudolph Arnheim
Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice, Ocvirk and others
Principles of Two-Dimensional Design, Wucius Wong
Interaction of Color, Josef Albers
The Elements of Color, Johannes Itten
Foundations of Art and Design, Fichner-Rathus 


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