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Visual communication

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• Communication

• Visual communication -- Congresses
• Visual communication -- Periodicals
• Visual communication -- Study and teaching
• Visual communication -- United States
• Graphic arts
• Signs and signboards
• Signs and symbols
• Written communication

• Graphic communication
• Imaginal communication
• Pictorial communication

• Hands-On Data Visualization: Interactive Storytelling From Spreadsheets to Code (open-access web edition; 2021), by Jack Dougherty and Ilya Ilyankou (illustrated HTML an handsondataviz.org)

• International Advances in Writing Research: Cultures, Places, Measures (c2012), ed. by Charles Bazerman, Christopher Dean, Jessica Singer Early, Karen J. Lunsford, Suzie Null, Paul Rogers, and Amanda Stansell (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

• Studies in Visual Communication (early issues titled Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication; 1974-1985) (full serial archives)

• U&lc: Upper and Lower Case, The International Journal of Typographics (New York: International Typeface Corp., 1973-) (partial serial archives)

• The Monthly Illustrator (full serial archives)
• The Quarterly Illustrator (full serial archives)

• Progressive Architecture (partial serial archives)
• Pencil Points (partial serial archives)

• Inkspot (partial serial archives)

• Nouvelles de l'Estampe (in French) (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)

• The Inland Printer (partial serial archives)
• The American Printer (partial serial archives)
• Bradley, His Book (1896-1897 (does not include unauthorized, spurious "Feb 1897" issue)), ed. by Will Bradley (full serial archives)
• The British Printer (partial serial archives)
• National Printer Journalist (partial serial archives)

• U&lc: Upper and Lower Case, The International Journal of Typographics (New York: International Typeface Corp., 1973-) (partial serial archives)

• The British Printer (partial serial archives)

• The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries (partial serial archives)

• Nouvelles de l'Estampe (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Academic Writing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Communication Across the Curriculum (2000-2003) (full serial archives)

• ARTiculating: Teaching Writing in a Visual World (c1998), ed. by Pamela B. Childers, Eric Hobson, and Joan A. Mullin (PDF with commentary at Colorado State)

• The American Drawing-Book: A Manual for the Amateur, and Basis of Study for the Professional Artist (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., c1870), by John Gadsby Chapman (page images at Wisconsin)
• Drawing Made Easy: A Book That Can Teach You How to Draw (Chicago: Hall and McCreary Co., 1923), by Charles Lederer (page images at HathiTrust)
• How Children Learn to Draw (Boston et al.: Ginn and Co., 1916), by Walter Sargent and Elizabeth Miller Lobingier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rudiments of Drawing Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture (second edition; London: Printed for M. Taylor, 1835), by Richard Brown (multiple formats at Google)
• Groups of Flowers: Drawn and Accurately Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• Groups of Fruit: Accurately Drawn and Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (London: Printed for William Stockdale, 1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• Mott's Elementary Book, No. II: Containing Exercises in Spelling and Reading, Modern Exercises in Drawing, and Appropriate Exercises in Mental Arithmetic (stereotype edition; New York: G. C. Mott, 1850), by George Mott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The New Art Geometry: or, Geometrical Drawing Applied to Design (London: G. W. Bacon and Co., 1901), by Frank Steeley and Bernard H. Trotman
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Six Birds, Accurately Drawn and Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• Guide for Drawing the Acanthus, and Every Description of Ornamental Foliage (London: B. Quaritch, reprinted 1886), by James Page
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sketching and Rendering in Pencil (New York: Pencil Points Press, 1922), by Arthur L. Guptill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Student's Manual of Fashion Drawing: Thirty Lessons with Conventional Charts (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1919), by Edith Young (page images at Wisconsin)

• A Book of Drawing, Limning, Washing or Colouring of Maps and Prints (London; M. Simmons, 1652), by Thomas Jenner (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• The Florist: Containing Sixty Plates of the Most Beautiful Flowers Regularly Dispos'd in Their Succession of Blowing, To Which is Added an Accurate Description of Their Colours, with Instructions for Drawing and Painting Them According to Nature, Being a New Work Intended for the Use and Amusement of Gentlemen and Ladies Delighting in That Art (London: Printed for R. Sayer et al., ca. 1770), by Carington Bowles
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Guidelines for Poster Presentations (1986), by Centers for Disease Control (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Early Spanish Treasure Signs and Symbols (Garland, TX: Little Treasures Pub. Co., c1963), by William Mahan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls (New York: Camp Fire Outfitting Co., 1915), by Charlotte V. Gulick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semiotics for Beginners, by Daniel Chandler (frame-dependent illustrated HTML in the UK)
• The American Boys' Book of Signs, Signals and Symbols (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1918), by Daniel Carter Beard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Cross of the Magi: An Unveiling of the Greatest of All the Ancient Mysteries (New York: Roger Bros.; London : L.N. Fowler, 1912), by Frank C. Higgins
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Writing Selves, Writing Societies: Research From Activity Perspectives (2003), ed. by Charles Bazerman and David R. Russell (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• A Rhetoric of Literate Action (v1 of a "Literate Action" set, prepublication version, c2013), by Charles Bazerman (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• A Theory of Literate Action (v2 of a "Literate Action" set, prepublication version, c2013), by Charles Bazerman (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (1982), by Per Linell (PDF with commentary in Sweden)
• The Private, the Public, and the Published: Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), ed. by Barbara Couture and Thomas Kent (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum (fourth edition, c2006), by Art Young (PDF with commentary at Colorado State)
• Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1997), by Peter L. Shillingsburg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toward A Taxonomy of "Small" Genres and Writing Techniques for Writing Across the Curriculum (c2011), ed. by Richard E. Young (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)

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