texts

required textbooks

Don Norman.
The {Design, Psychology, Psychopathology} of Everyday Things.
New York: Basic Books, 1988. (All variant titles are the same.)

Edward Tufte.
Envisioning Information.
Chesire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990.

David Turnbull.
Maps are Territories: Science is an Atlas.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Electronic Course Reserves.
Some readings will be available here for TAMU students.

Regular Course Reserves.
Some books you really need to have in your hands, because the printing is special. These will be available on reserve in the library. A directory of these is here for TAMU students.

recommended textbooks

Johannes Itten.
The Art of Color. -or- The Elements of Color
New York: Wiley, 1997.