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Icons: a unique form of painting

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Volume 4 , Issue 5 (Sept./Oct. 1997) table of contents

Pages: 15 - 28

Year of Publication: 1997

ISSN:1072-5520

Author

Russ Brami

Brami Design, Lexington, MA

Publisher

ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Frutiger, A. Signs and Symbols: Their Design and Meaning. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1989.
	2	Gage, J. Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction. Bullfinch, 1993.
	3	Graphis New Media 1. Graphis Press, 1996.
	4	April Greiman, Hybrid Imagery: The Fusion of Technology and Graphic Design, Watson-Guptill Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1990
	5	Homer, W.I. Seurat and the Science of Painting. MIT Press, 1964.
	6	Itten, J. The Elements of Color. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970.
	7	McCloud, S. Understanding Comics, The Invisible Art. Harper Perennial, 1994.
	8	Phillips, B. Tapestries. Phaidon, 1994.
	9	Welch, M. and Hope, A. Living Colors: The Definitive Guide to Color Palettes Through the Ages. Chronicle Books, 1995.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
Subjects: Graphical user interfaces (GUI)

Additional Classification:
J. Computer Applications

K. Computing Milieux

General Terms:
Design, Documentation

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