The following is a partial list of materials you should consider reading or owning if you pursue a career in the arts. Some items are for Graphic Design, some for Computer Graphics and some apply more broadly.
Books
• Robert Bosnak, A Little Course in Dreams, Shambhala Publications, 1988.
• Buckminster Fuller, Ownership Manual For Space Ship Earth, Aeonian Press, 1978.
• William Gibson, Neuromancer, Ace Publishing, 1984.
• Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe, W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.
• Burne Hogarth, Dynamic Figure Drawing, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1996.
• Carl G. Jung, Man and His Symbols, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing, 1968.
• Steven D. Katz, Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen, Focal Press, 1991.
• Isaac Victor Kerlow, The Art of 3-D Computer Animation and Effects, 3rd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2004
• Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines, Viking Penguin Group, 2000.
• Donald Kuspit, The End of Art, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Peter Lord and Brian Sibley, Creating 3-D Animation, Harry N. Abrams, 1998
• Peter Lunenfeld, Snap to Grid: A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media
and Cultures, MIT Press, 2001.
• Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, MIT Press 2001.
• Eadweard Muybridge The Male and Female Figure in Motion: 60 Classic Sequences, Dover Publications, 1984.
• Pocock, Lynn and Judson Rosebush, The Computer Animator's Technical Handbook, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2001.
• Susan Sontag, On Photography, Doubleday, 1977.
• Erik Spiekermann
and E.M. Ginger, Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out
How Type Works, Second Edition, Peachpit Press, 2002.
• Frank Thomas, Illusion of Life: Disney Animation, Disney Editions, 1995.
• Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities,
Evidence and Narrative, Graphics
Press, 1997.
• Richard Saul Wurman, Understanding, TED Conferences, Inc., 1999.
Magazines
• Communication Arts
• Graphic Design USA
• Graphis
• How
• Print, America's Graphic Design Magazine
• Step Into Design
• Art In America
• ArtForum
• Cabinet, A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture
Movies
• Metropolis
• Battleship Potemkin
• Man With the Movie Camera
• Ballet Mécanique
• Modern Times
• Un Chien Andalou
• La Belle et la Bête
• Olympia: Festival of Nations
• Rear Window
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Koyaanisqatsi
• Toy Story
• Starship Troopers
• The Matrix
• Waking Dream
• Russian Ark
• Triplets of Belleville
• The Incredibles
Web sites
• Art History PowerPoint Resource
http://iris.nyit.edu/arthistory
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art History Timeline
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
• ArtNet—Current Information on Artists and Events
http://www.artnet.com
• American Institute for Graphic Arts (AIGA)
http://www.aiga.org
• New York City SIGGRAPH
http://www.nyc.siggraph.org
• Cabinet Online—A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/
• WPS1 Art Radio
http://www.wps1.org
• 3D Artists, A gallery of 3D animation
http://www.3dartist.com