Almanac

Over the years I’ve gathered a variety of sources that have had, and in many cases continue to have, a meaningful influence on me. I suspect you’ll find many of these useful as well.

Design

• Elements of Typographic Style, Robert Bringurst Typography is the key to ALL visual design. At some point, you have to know this stuff.
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information // by Edward Tufte The best book EVER written about charts and graphs.
• Design of Everyday Things // by Donald Norman A classic about affordances and how we understand the UI around us.
• Don’t Make Me Think // by Steve Krug The best book EVER about Web design.
• Interactions of Color // by Joseph Albers Seminal book about color.
• Grid Systems in Graphic Design // by Josef Müller-Brockmann Foundational book about using grid systems in page layout.