WORKSHOP RESOURCES
Research
Research techniques by Latif Nasser, co-host of the show Radiolab
Three of many open access museum image databases:
David Lynch’s Weather Report 10/8/20
Philip Gerard A Field Guide for Writers: The Art of Creative Research, University of Chicago Press, 2017
/MIT DE DETA/: Source Materials Visualized The Center for Book Arts July 8 - September 19, 2015 catalogue
Ellen Lupton, Graphic Design Thinking:Beyond Brainstorming, Princeton Arch. Press, 2011
Writing
Books
Leslie Ross, Language in the Visual Arts The Interplay of Text and Imagery, McFarland & Company 2014
Lynda Barry, Syllabus Drawn & Quarterly, 2014 (2-minute drawings)
Scott McCloud Understanding Comics, William Morrow, 1994 (text and image relationships)
Joe Brainard, I Remember, Granary Books, 2001 (originally published 1970)
Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux, The Poet’s Companion, Norton & Co. 1997 (Includes a chapter on 20 minute writing exercises)
Keith Smith, Text in the Book Format, Keith A. Smith Books, 1995 (Itineraries through the book)
Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode Design and Pattern in Narratives Catapult, NY 2019
Peter Schwenger, Asemic the Art of Writing, University of Minnesota Press, 2019
Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists’ Books, Granary Books 2nd ed, 2004
Online Resources
Oblique Strategies - over 100 worthwhile dilemmas Brian Eno & Peter Schmidt
Writing Prompts by Charles Bernstein
“The Image List” by Michael McGriff
https://www.the-prompt.ai/ Matt Strain “AI for Real People”
Text & Image & Structure
Books
Keith Smith, Structure of the Visual Book, Keith A. Smith Books, 2003
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, William Morrow, 1994 (text and image relationships)
Art and Text, Aimee Selby ed. Black Dog Press, 2009
Alisa Golden, Making Handmade Books 100 + Bindings Structures and Forms, Lark Crafts, 2010
Barbara Tetenbaum & Julie Chen, Artist’s Book Ideation Cards, Flying Fish Press & Triangle Press, 2013
Chip Kidd , Go - A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design, Workman Publishing, 2014
1000 Type Treatments - from Script to Serif Letterforms Used to Perfection , Wilson Harvey/Loewy, Rockport Pub, 2008
Ellen Lupton, Thinking with Type: A critical Guide for /designers, Writers, Editors & Students, Princeton Architect Press, 2004
Online Resources
Molly Bang, Picture This, How Pictures Work, Chronicle Books, 2016 (video link)
Examples of text/image relationships contemporary artist books
Eco Activism
Books
Gregory Sholette & others, Art as Social Action, Allworth Press, 2019
Extraction Art on the Edge of the Abyss, CODEX/Peter Rutledge Koch editor, 2020
Mark Todd & Esther Pearl Watson, Whatcha Mean What’s a Zine? The Art of Making Zines & Comics, Grafia, 2017
Online Resources
Seeded Book with Henrik Drescher
Steven Heller, The Daily Heller: Books as First Responders
Mitchell Thomashow, To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning