Visual Design and Presentation

 

 

Smashing Magazine

 

7 Essential Guidlines for Functional Design, Smashing Magazine

 

Many Eyes: Examples of visual design

 

Garr Reynolds: Presentation Zen: blog

 

Visualization Aesthetics: blog

 

Designobserver: blog

 

Stylegala: blog

 

A List Apart: blog

 

VisualsSpeak: blog

 

9rules.com: network of blogs on design

 

Website Design

 

Dan Meyer: DyDan: blog on teaching presentation design

 

Jack Nielsen: How Readers Read on the Web

 

Cliff Atkinson: Beyond Bullets: blog on presentation design

 

GoodDocuments: Writing for the Web

 

Mandarin Design: Web and Blog Design

 

Constance J. Petersen Writing for a Web Audience

 

Effective Web Design

 

Lester Faigley: Material Literacy and Visual Design

 

 

 

Text-Editing and Design Software

 

Tlbox: design software

 

Instrastar: text-editing software

 

Google: text editing software

 

Textpad editing software (for Windows)

 

EditPad Pro editing software (for Windows)

 

Institute for the Future of the Book: Sophie

 

What the Font: Select from different font options

 

 

Activities for Focusing on Visual Design

 

Activities: from McQuade and McQuade, Seeing & Writing 3

 

 

Digital Style Guides

 

Digital style guides: lots of links

 

Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide 2.0

 

 

Books on Visual Design

 

Burnett, R. (2005). How Images Think. The MIT Press.

 

Handa, C. (2004). Visual rhetoric in a digital world: A critical sourcebook. Bedford/St. Martin's.

 

Helmers, M. (2005). The elements of visual analysis. Longman.

 

Hill, C. A., & Helmers, M. (Eds.). (2004). Defining visual rhetorics. Lawrence Erlbaum.

 

Hocks, M. E., & Kendrick, M. R. (Eds.). (2003). Eloquent images: Word and image in the age of new media. The MIT Press.

 

Hope, D. S. (Ed.) (2005). Visual communication: Perception, rhetoric, technology. Hampton Press.

 

Sorapure, M. (2006). Moving writing: A critical approach to animation in composition.

 

Van Leeuwen, T., & Jewitt, C. (Eds.). (2001). Handbook of Visual Analysis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

Williams, R. (2003). The Non-Designer's Design Book, 2nd Edition. Peachpit Press.

 

 

Books on Web Design

 

Maciuba-Koppel, D. (2002). The Web Writer's Guide. New York: Focal Press.

 

Mcgovern, G., Norton, R., & O'Dowd, C. (2001). The Web Content Style Guide: An Essential Reference for Online Writers, Editors and Managers. Prentice Hall.

 

Nielsen, J., & Loranger, H. (2006). Prioritizing Web Usability. New York: New Riders Press

 

Price, J., & Price, L. (2002). Hot Text: Web Writing that Works. New York: New Riders Press.