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Listed immediately below are three of several funded projects ongoing, Department of Typography, University of Reading —

• The optimism of modernity: recovering modern reasoning in typography — See in particular its links to the Stafford papers, via "documents." 03|08

  Designing information for everyday life, 1815Ð1914 — Principal Investigator: Paul Stiff 03|08

  Isotype revisited — Principal Investigator: Eric Kindel 03|08

• Justin Beal . memphis, ornament and plastic laminates — Good. Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) was a founder of Memphis. Beal is an artist, working in Los Angeles. 02|08
• Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Sandia National Labs, 1993 (DOE Scientific and Technical Information, OSTI ID 10117359)
  "The efficacy of the markers in deterring inadvertent human intrusion was estimated to decrease with time, with the probability function varying with the mode of intrusion (who is intruding and for what purpose) and the level of technological development of the society. The development of a permanent, passive marker system capable of surviving and remaining interpretable for 10,000 years will require further study prior to implementation." (from abstract).

  This is a 348 page, 43Mb document. Download entire, or view individual pages (assuming Acrobat Reader is activated). For images (including the above) start with p149, which lists visual depictions of various design options in immediately following pages. 01|08

• Dying Speeches and Bloody Murders : Crime Broadsides
  "The Harvard Law School Library proudly announces the launch of a new digital collection highlighting its extensive holdings of crime broadsides.

  "Just as programs are sold at sporting events today, broadsides — styled at the time as "Last Dying Speeches" or "Bloody Murders" — were sold to the audience that gathered to witness public executions in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. The Library's collection of more than 500 of these broadsides is one of the largest recorded and, to our knowledge, the first to be digitized in its entirety. The examples digitized span the years 1707 to 1891 and include accounts of such crimes as arson, assault, counterfeiting, horse stealing, murder, rape, robbery, and treason." 11|07

• Voice of the Shuttle ¶ exhaustive webpage for humanities research. 11|07

• Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 ¶ EAA presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. (Duke University) 11|07
• Ad*Acess ¶ images and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955, concentrated in five main subject areas -- Radio, Television, Transportation, Beauty and Hygiene, and World War II. (J. Walter Thompson Company Competitive Advertisements Collection, Duke University) 11|07
• Medicine and Madison Avenue ¶ images and database information for approximately 600 health-related advertisements printed in newspapers and magazines from the 1910s through the 1950s — cough and cold remedies, laxatives and indigestion aids, vitamins and tonics, etc., plus non-graphical historical documents. (Duke University) 11|07
• Center for Interactive Advertising ¶ research articles, resources, syllabi, etc. (University of Texas at Austin) 11|07
• Cult Brands ¶ article in Business Week [11|04]
• The World's 10 Most Valuable Brands [11|04]
• The Persuaders ¶ PBS documentary on current marketing efforts [11|04]
• The Merchants of Cool ¶ older PBS documentary; advertisers' focus on younger audiences [11|04]
• Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 ¶ 9,000 images, from Special Collections Library at Duke University; searchable 11|07

• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum [10|03]
• Design Museum, London ¶ design, architecture, fashion [10|03]
• World War II poster collection ¶ 338 posters (Northwestern University) [10|03]
• Ladislav Sutnar : / exhibitiion Prague 2003 ¶ Richer than first glance would suggest. Exhibit reviewed by Rick Poynor in Eye 50 (Winter 03). 11|07
• Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky ¶ "The exhibition Monuments of the Future : Designs by El Lissitzky, which was on display at the Getty Research Institute from November 21, 1998 through February 21, 1999, explored Lissitzky's career as a typographer, book designer, and architect. This Web site takes its inspiration from the design of the exhibition and shows most of the materials that were on display, grouped according to their original sections. In addition, the Web site links to related holdings on Lissitzky and Russian modernism in the Getty Research Library and in other museums and archives." 10|07

• AIGA Voice ¶ good to monitor this. [01|05]
• Design Observer ¶ [11|05]
• Designers Who Blog ¶ [11|03]
• Under Consideration ¶ from the broad to the minute [but livelier than the Design Observer]. Of particular interest to students may be the Designer's Black Book thread, which has some concrete examples of "The Portfolio," and also discusses the 'leave-behind' element. Lots of comments.[02|04]
• Art, Design and Gestalt Theory ¶ Article by Roy R. Behrens. Here's the abstract:
  Gestalt psychology was founded in 1910 by three German psychologists, Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Kšhler. The author discusses gestalt theory's influence on modern art and design, describes its resemblance to Japanese-inspired theories of aesthetics and finds evidence of a mutual, if limited, interest between the gestalt psychologists and certain artists. [10|03]
• Rudolf Arnheim ¶ Website on this gestalt psychologist, art/film theorist maintained by Roy R. Behrens 11|07
• Dot dot dot, graphic design ¶ visual culture magazine11|07

• COOL ¶ Conservation OnLine. Resources for conservation specialists, also gathers links to "mailing list archives" like "Book_arts-L" and "ExLibris." Search in these archives for information about Japanese "stab" binding, for example. 11|07
• University of Iowa Center for the Book ¶ Links for these categories: Book Artists, Book History, Book Dealers, Paper Making, Book Binding, Book Link Pages, Book Related Organizations, Book Programs/Classes, Letterpress Sites, Calligraphy Sites, and Electronic Texts. 11|07
• The Movable Book Society ¶ 11|03
• Pop-up and Animated Books ¶ Enthusiast/collector site; useful links. 11|03
• Rare Book School Reading Lists ¶ 11|07
• SHARP ¶ Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Access to multi-disciplinary resources centered on print and reading culture, including links to archives, online exhibits and teaching resources. 10|03
• Library of Congress ¶ Catalog plus numerous resources, including the American Memory Historical Collections, being multimedia collections of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the Library's Americana collections. 10|03
• Dana Atchley | Next Exit | Digital Storytelling ¶ See Digital Attic for mail art, visual poetry, and PDF versions of print projects including Charon's Quince: Excerpts from the journals of a young Typographer in Europe. Stygian Press (1963) (printed at the Stinehour Press). 10|03
• The Book Art Movement, 1974-1999 ¶ A paper presented by Richard Minsky to the SHARP Conference, July 2001. "As reading becomes more digital, there has been a rise in the creation and appreciation of the book as totemic or iconographic object..." (Includes good illustrative, and other, links.) 11|07
  See also The Bill of Rights, which is a set of 10 book objects, including the chapter "Minsky in Bed" (his love life in the style of the incunabula), featuring chain binding with handcuffs. 11|07

• Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century ¶ An Exhibition at the Hugh M. Morris Library, University of Delaware Library (August 27 - December 19, 1996). Good exhibit. Catalogue was issued. 11|07
• Joy of Visual Perception ¶ a labor of love (and excellent resource) by Peter K. Kaiser, York University. see especially chapter 7 color/color vision. [10|03]
• Munsell Color Science Laboratory ¶ good information on chroma (see research images), and excellent annotated link guide. [10|03]
• CVRL Color & Vision database ¶ annotated library of standard data sets, which are relevant to color and vision vision research. Scientific. [10|03]
• RGB solid model. ¶ part of the august 98 number of dezagen (Design no genba), providing access to design and typography in Japan. [10|03]
• RGB color charts ¶ Decimal & hexadecimal color charts, non-dithering colors, etc. [10|03]
• Crayola
  color corner ¶ background [10|03]

• Google Book
• Internet Archive
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts ¶ English and American lit, and philosophy. 10|03
• Babelot ¶ Multilingual catalogue of textual resources (e.g., 48 Polski, 12,817 English) 10|03
• Classics Archive ¶ Full texts of Greek and Roman classics. (MIT) 10|03
• Electronic Poetry Center ¶ Because a sense for measure is shared by poetry and typography. Note extensive link to other poetry sites. (SUNY Buffalo) 10|03
• Electronic Text Center ¶ "An on-line archive of thousands of SGML-encoded electronic texts and images with a library service that offers hardware and software suitable for the creation and analysis of text." (University of Virginia) 10|03
• Making of America (Cornell) and Making of America (Michigan) ¶ complementary, and stunning, visual resources. 10|03
• Wright American Fiction ¶ collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography American Fiction, 1851-1875. There are currently 2,887 texts included (1,763 unedited, 1,124 fully edited and encoded) by 1,456 authors. 11|07
• Intratext ¶ Heavy on religion and philosophy; where one goes for Augustine's On Christian Doctrine, or the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. IntraText CT is the hypertextualized text together with wordlists and concordances. Easiest to search in catalogue by language, e.g., English. (seems to be related to Babelot.) 10|03
• The Online Books Page ¶ Gateway to some 15,000 items. (University of Pennsylvania) 10|03
• Perseus ¶ Greek and Roman classics (texts, images, papyri, etc.). Dictionaries and other tools. (Tufts University)
• Project Bartleby ¶ Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons, etc. 10|03
• Project Gutenberg ¶ The no-cost mother of non-authoritative e-texts. 10|03
• Sunsite ¶ Mary Austin, Land of Little Rain, Emma Goldman, Ambrose Bierce, Jack London, etc. (UC Berkeley) 10|03
• ubuweb ¶ Visual, concrete and sound poetry. 10|03
• A Pickle for the Knowing Ones ¶ Lord Timothy Dexter (1747-1806); Newburyport trader, philosopher, and sprinkler of punctuation —
  "fouder mister printer the Nowing ones complane of my book the fust edition had no stops I put in A Nuf here and thay may peper and solt it as they plese." 11|07
• Patent Full Text ¶ Lend flavor and reality to annual report and information design exercises! Explore the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office resources. For older patents, be sure to search index of patent classifications before moving on to searching for patents themselves. 10|03
  The trademarks library constitutes a history of U.S. brand identity design. again, you'll need to start search with the design search code manual. 10|03
• esp@cenet ¶ Search British, European and US patents. 11|07

• brief introduction 10|03
• Society for Emblem Studies ¶ "The Society exists to foster the study of emblem books and related materials in literature and the visual arts, their origins and influence on other cultural forms, in all periods, countries and languages." Directories to conferences, digitization projects, and (annotated) links. (University of Glasgow) [10|03]
• Andreas Alciato ¶ Alciatus his Emblematum Liber (1531) introduced the emblem form. This site provides searchable Latin and English text (with images), and other apparatus. Good emblem links guide. (Memorial University of Newfoundland) [10|03]
• The English Emblem Book Project ¶ Images of all page spreads in key English emblem books, plus other resources. (Penn State) [10|03]
• University of Glasgow Emblems Website ¶ emphasizing French materials. 11|07
• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ¶ Full electronic version, to accompany a recent study by Liane Lefaivre. [10|03]
• Minerva Britanna ¶ A web-edition of Henry Peacham's Minerva Britanna prepared from a copy of the 1612 edition at Middlebury College by the students of Professor Billings's first-year seminar, Emblem Literature (FS 10, Fall 2001) [10|03]
• Emblem Project Utrecht ¶ Aim of this project is the digitisation of Dutch love emblems. Editions and indexes are currently presented for seven of a planned 25 emblem books, religious as well as profane. Full transcription, page facsimiles, indexes, and links to sources and parallels, translations and annotation. [10|03]
• Orbis Pictus Revised ¶ Documentation on elaborate revision of Comenius's picture dictionary, by artists including Tjebbe van Tijen, about whom more can be learned here. 11|07
• Visual Telling of Stories Archive ¶ See under "e" for emblems, but the whole site is worth exploring. Compiler's rationale is worth reading. 10|03
• British Art Medal Society ¶ Medals share with emblems a connection with graphic design in their combination of text and image, and are able to exploit two-sidedness. BAMS is a good place to start. [10|03]