REQUIRED READING
Drucker, Johanna. Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Tufte, Edward. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990.
RECOMMENDED READING
A Layered Grammar of Graphics, Hadley Wickham, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Volume 19, Number 1, Pages 3–28:
http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/layered-grammar.pdf
Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods. William S. Cleveland; Robert McGill. Available here:
http://info.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/S637-S11/cleveland84.pdf
Some Graphic and Semigraphic Displays, John Tukey, Statistical Papers in Honor of George W. Snedecor, pp. 293-316 (1972). Available here: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003v7
Lev Manovich: Software Takes Command (excerpt)
https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9370312?umlaut.institution=NS
Ben Fry's Media Lab thesis: Computational Information Design: http://benfry.com/phd/dissertation-110323c.pdf
Reas, C., McWilliams C., LUST. Form and Code: In Design, Art, and Architecture. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010.
https://getit.library.nyu.edu/go/9370313?umlaut.institution=NS