| Graphics and Design |
| The Elements of Graphing
Data. WS Cleveland. Summit (NJ): Hobart Press;
1984. |
| Envisioning Information.
E Tufte. Cheshire (CT): Graphics Press; 1990
Extends the thorough consideration of effective
graphic presentation and its principles that
Tufte developed in his The Visual Display
of Quantitative Information (see annotation
below.) This book offers the wider view of representing
spatial and structural information that does
not directly represent quantitative data. |
| Into Print: A practical
guide to writing, illustrating and publishing.
M Hill, W Cochran. Los Altos (CA): William Kaufman;
1977.
Includes general and technical information
on the preparation of photographs, drawings,
graphs and charts. |
| Graphic Design for the
Electronic Age. JV White. New York: Watson-Guptill
Publications, Xerox Press; 1988.
In addition to well-illustrated sections on
design and layout, includes extensive descriptions
of the characteristics of type, compilations
of frequently used symbols, and summarises the
use of punctuation. |
| The Guild Handbook of Scientific
Illustration. ERS Hodges, editor. New York:
Van Nostrand Reinhold; 1989
Chapters on media for illustration and on considerations
in illustrating specific categories of biological
and medical subjects. Separate chapters cover
charts, diagrams, and maps. "Guild" is the Guild
of Natural Science Illustrators. |
| Illustrating Science: Standards
for Publication. Scientific Illustration Committee,
Council of Biology Editors. Bethesda (MD): Council
of Biology Editors; 1988
Covers artwork, photography, and graph and
map construction applied to illustrating scientific
subjects and information. Includes chapters
on procedure, standards, and ethical and legal
considerations. |
| Preparing Scientific Illustrations:
A Guide to Better Posters, Presentations and
Publications. 2nd ed. MH Briscoe.
New York (NY): Springer-Verlag; 1996. |
| Presentation of Clinical
Data. J Scoenfelder. New York: Raven; 1989
Despite its orientation to medical research,
the principles and devices described for structuring
tables of numeric and descriptive data and graphically
representing experimental designs and quantitative
information (data and statistics) are applicable
in other fields. |
| Reporting technical information.
4th ed. KW Houp, TE Pearsall. New
York: Macmillan; 1980.
Discusses kinds of illustrations (tables as
well as figures) and the importance of selecting
the appropriate type of illustration; provides
guidelines for ensuring that the presentation
of graphics is simple and clear. |
| Semiology of Graphics:
diagrams, networks, maps. J Bertin, WJ Berg,
translator. Madison (WI): University of Wisconsin
Press; 1983.
An exhaustive, scholarly, heavily illustrated
treatise on theory and concrete principles for
displaying quantitative and structural information
in graphic form. |
| Symbol Sourcebook: an authoritative
guide to international graphic symbols. H Dreyfuss.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold; 1984.
In addition to extensive illustrations of symbols
widely used in nonscientific fields, has sections
on graphic symbols in astronomy, biology, chemistry,
geology, mathematics, medicine, meteorology,
and physics. The section on symbols grouped
by graphic forms enables one to ascertain a
symbol's meaning from its characteristics of
form (such as triangle, circle, and so on. |
| The Visual Display of Quantitative
Information. ER Tufte. Cheshire (CT): Graphics
Press; 1983.
An elegantly and profusely illustrated treatise
on faulty and effective graphic displays of
data in scientific, political, sociological,
and popular literature; the text develops principles
largely from illustrations. |
| Visualising Data. WS Cleveland.
Murray Hill (NJ): AT&T Laboratories; 1993. Distributed
by Hobart Pr. Summit (NJ).
A thorough consideration of how to represent
quantitative data, with particular attention
to multivariate data with statistical complexities. |
| Visual Explanations: Images
and Quantities. ER Tufte. Cheshire (CO): Graphics
Press; 1997. |
