"No image is presumed inviolable in our dancehall
of visual politics, and all images are potentially powerful. Bad graphics
topple good governments and occlude good ideas; good graphics sustain
bad ones."
- Dave Hickey. 1994 Invisible Dragon: Four
Essays on Beauty, p 17, Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies, Incorporated,
1994.
In addition to the hand outs in class there are additional readings below
that may be required for various discussions. These will be referenced
in each related lesson.
Articles
Modern Hieroglyphs,
Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller, Design / Writing / Reasearch: Writing
on Graphic Design, New York, Kiosk and The Princeton Architectural Press
(1996)
Reading
Isotype, Ellen Lupton, Design Issues, Vol. 3, No. 2. (Autumn, 1986),
pp. 47-58.
Power
to the Paper: An Interview with Carol Wells, Steven Heller, AIGA.org
(June 13 2006)
Are political posters meant to educate or to proselytize? Carol Wells,
director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, talks about
storing posters under the bed, getting the message out in three seconds,
and why all posters are not created equal.
Democracy
on Paper, Terry Lee Stone (December 05, 2006)
On Election Day, November 7, 2006, AIGA and Design Observer joined forces
with some visionary sponsors to bring us the online experiment in citizen
journalism called the Polling
Place Photo Project. It was an opportunity for designers, and Americans
at large, to photograph their polling place and voter experience. Individuals
then uploaded their images, along with optional comments, onto the site.
Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. 2nd
Edition. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2001.
Tufte, Edward. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence
and Narrative. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997.
Wurman, Richard Saul. Information Anxiety 2. Pearson Education, 2000.
Give credit where credit is due.
When you use research or photographs which are not yours you MUST include
references and sources. Where appropriate use footnotes, end notes and/or
a bibliography as in some cases provide a separate list indicating where
you got a photograph from and the related owner of the copyright of the
artwork. This will be used in the end notes and source credits of the
final class book project project.
Related Resources
For our final class project make use of the many resources available
in New York City, including the New School and affiliated libraries.
Electronic
Reserves Note that you can access multiple electronic resources
including archives of the New York Times, Lexis Nexis, etc. by signing
in with your username and password. You can also access these electronic
reserves from the library section within your
my.newschool.edu account.
New York Public Library Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. phone (212)
930-0830
The New York Public Library has great resources for New York City research.
The United States History, Local History and Genealogy Division, the
Art and Architecture Division. www.nypl.org
A collection of links related to many of the issues we will discuss in
our class is stored on the public website Del.icio.us and tagged with
the term "Design4".
As you find more resources online or otherwise which you think the rest
of the class would benefit from please share them with the class by e-mailing
them to me and I will add them to this site or the Del.icio.us link list.
Below are a few links worth mentioning as you proceed with your "issue"
research projects you may find these links useful. If you find more that
you think your peers may be interested in please email them to me and
I will distribute the links or post them here.
Policy Experts Directory is an electronic directory for locating
think tanks and policy organizations which are actively involved in
a broad range of public policy issues, both domestic and foreign.
CIA,
Human Resource Exploitation Training Manual - 1983. This secret
manual was compiled from sections of the KUBARK guidelines, and from
U.S. Military Intelligence field manuals written in the mid 1960s as
part of the Army's Foreign Intelligence Assistance Program codenamed
"Project X." The manual was used in numerous Latin American
countries as an instructional tool by CIA and Green Beret trainers between
1983 and 1987 and became the subject of executive session Senate Intelligence
Committee hearings in 1988 because of human rights abuses committed
by CIA-trained Honduran military units. The manual allocates considerable
space to the subject of "coercive questioning" and psychological
and physical techniques.
www.theyrule.net
They Rule allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories
of the top companies in the US in 2004. The data was collected from
their websites and SEC filings in early 2004, so it may not be completely
accurate - companies merge and disappear and directors shift boards.
