Re: Will Eisner's "technical comics"

Katherine,

Horn's article is part of "Information Design" book edited by Robert
Jacobson http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=4211&ttype=2

I rather like the classic (on my opinion):
Bowman, William J. 1968. Graphic Communication. New York John Wiley.
But, he is rarely mentioned.

A strong influence among Brazilians designers, is Wucius Wong's "Principles
of Form and Design"
http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Form-Design-Wucius-Wong/dp/0471285528

Congratulations for the PhD. I am nearly there too.

José

2008/7/17 Katherine Gillieson <[email protected]>:

> Hi José,
> Actually I'm familiar with those, but thanks anyway! Aware that I'm posting
> to a list, just to say that my recently/almost completed PhD focusses on
> models for graphic description (specifically for book design, but this
> encompasses many levels and dimensions of analysis). I ended up integrating
> two of Twyman's schemas into my own framework; the 1979 one, and the one he
> proposes in an article of 1985 for pictorial forms (illustrations,
> photographs, diagrams)
>
> I hadn't read the Horn article though, what year was it published? his
> bibliography reads eerily like a chunk of mine -- right down to Macauley's
> The Way Things Work!
>
> Gotta mention another compendium (another big round table?): Yuri
> Engelhardt's PhD thesis 'The Language of Graphics' (2002), though his work
> emphasizes models for diagrams and maps, he includes Eisner and McCloud…
>
> K
>
>
> On 17 Jul 2008, at 17:32, Jose de Souza wrote:
>
> Hi Katherine,
>
>
> As far as I know, Robert E. Horn was one the first one to put "around the
> same table" the following "Systematizers and Analysts" of graphic language:
>
> "Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics (1993) and Will Eisner's
> Comics and Sequential Art (1985) are excellent analyses of one "dialect" of
> visual language, the comic book. William Bowman (1968) produced an
> important early taxonomy of graphic communication, while Michael
> Twyman (1973) has provided an important analysis of how many types of
> static information design direct eye movement."
> (Information Design: Emergence of a New Profession, p. 19)
>
> These are the references:
>
> Bowman, William J. 1968. Graphic Communication. New York John Wiley.
>
> Twyman, Michael A. 1979. Schema for the Study of Graphic Language. In The
> Processing
> of Visible Language P. A. Kolers, M. E. Wrolstad, and H. Bouma, eds. New
> York: Plenum.
>
> McCloud, Scott. 1993. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. Northampton,
> Mass.:
> Kitchen Sink Press.
>
>
>
>
> Katherine Gillieson
> www.115.org.uk
> www.rdg.ac.uk/typography
>
>
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José Marconi Bezerra de Souza
PhD Student
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication
The University of Reading

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