INTERNATIONAL VISUAL LITERACY ASSOCIATION
Dedicated to the Research, Study, and Publication of Visual Literacy

Visual Literacy Portal (an ongoing project)

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RESEARCH STUDIES & OPPORTUNITIES

The Benedict Visual Literacy Collection
http://www.asu.edu/lib/archives/benedict/index.html

Center for Research into Practice
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/research/cr2p/index.htm

Doors of Perception Magazine
http://www.doorsofperception.com/Magazine/

Ethics of Databases
http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/goguen/papers/4s/4s.html

Images in Practice
http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/illustration/images/

MIT Media Lab
http://www.media.mit.edu/

Research at the Getty
http://www.getty.edu/research/index.html

RGB Project: Research, Design and Education
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~pbendito/RGB/index.htm

Talking About Visual Texts With Students
http://www.readingonline.org/articles/art_index.asp?HREF=/articles/callow/

Visual and Verbal Resources for Evaluative Meaning in Political Cartoons
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/papers/polcart.htm

It Depends: ID - Principles and Guidelines (2nd Ed.)
by Rune Pettersson

http://www.ivla.org/portal/ebooks/It_Depends_by_R_Pettersson_2007.pdf


TEACHING RESOURCES

Art, Design, and Visual Thinking (Cornell College, New York)
http://char.txa.cornell.edu/

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
http://www.drawright.com/

Hodges Health Career - Care Domains - Model
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/vizintro.htm#refs
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/diagsort.htm

Introduction to Visual Literacy – ArtIS 301 (Iowa State University, Ames, IA)
http://www.vis.design.iastate.edu/index.html

Macromedia Solutions for Academic Integration
http://www.macromedia.com/resources/education/k12/campaign/integration/

Mural Arts Program (Philadelphia, PA)
http://www.muralarts.org/

New Art Basics Project
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~design/ART/NAB/index.html

New Arts of Persuasion
http://collaboratory.nunet.net/dsimpson/syllabus.html

Usability Consortium -- Training: Interface and Interaction Design
http://www.usabilityconsortium.com/pages/service_pages/training_design_UC03.html

Visual Language by Neil Cohn
http://www.emaki.net

Visual Literacy (Kent State University)
http://www.educ.kent.edu/community/VLO

Visual Literacy (Kent State University)
http://www.educ.kent.edu/community/VLO

Visual Literacy – Com 155 (Marist College)
http://www.academic.marist.edu/pennings/vislit2.htm

Visual Literacy K-8
http://k-8visual.info/

Web Resources for Visual Anthropology
http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/urlist/


LEARNING TOOLS

Bad Human Factors Designs
http://baddesigns.com/

Color Test
http://www.njagyouth.org/colortest.swf

Color Theory – ArtIS 208 (Iowa State University, Ames, IA)
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~design/ART/ARTVS208/colorwheel.html

Graphic Organizers
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm
http://www.graphic.org/class.html

Motionary: the "meaning in motion" project
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/courses/ad/studio/motionary/

On-Line Visual Literacy Project
http://www.pomona.edu/Academics/courserelated/classprojects/Visual-lit/intro/intro.html

Visual Design of Web Pages
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~kjob/wbi/Index.html

Visual Thesaurus (online edition)
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html

What is a Print?
http://www.moma.org/whatisaprint/flash.html


ONLINE DESIGN-RELATED PUBLICATIONS

Communication Arts
http://www.commarts.com/CA/

Émigré
http://www.emigre.com/

Eye Magazine
http://www.eyemagazine.com/

I.D. Magazine
http://www.idonline.com/

Loop: AIGA Journal of Interaction Design Education
http://loop.aiga.org/

Print Magazine
http://printmag.com/

Typographica
http://typographi.ca/

Wired Magazine
http://www.wired.com/


DESIGN-RELATED SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES

Cranbrook Academy of Art Library
http://www.cranbrookart.edu/library/

Denver Art Museum Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive
http://www.denverartmuseum.org/

Digital Wisdom Logos and Trademarks Archives
http://trademarks-logos.com/index.htm

Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
http://www.cooper.edu/art/lubalin/Welcome.html

University of Iowa International Dada Archive
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/

Yale University Arts of the Book Collection
http://www.library.yale.edu/aob/


MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES

American Visionary Art Museum
http://www.avam.org/

Busch-Reisinger Museum (Harvard)
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/busch/index.html

California Museum of Photography
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/photography/circle/default.html

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
http://ndm.si.edu/

Design Museum (London)
http://www.designmuseum.org/

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
http://www.picturebookart.org/

Exploratorium: the museum of science, art and human perception
http://www.exploratorium.edu/

Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/

National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
http://www.nga.gov/

Nature and Design
http://personalpages.tds.net/~hwirth/nd/index.html

Smithsonian Archives of American Art
http://artarchives.si.edu/

Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/

Walker Art Center
http://www.walkerart.org/jsindex.html


PRIVATE VISUAL LITERACY-RELATED SITES

MTN Cartoons
http://www.mtncartoons.com

Official Eric Carle Web Site
http://www.eric-carle.com/

Professional Cartoonists Index
http://cagle.slate.msn.com/


SCIENTIFIC SITES ON VISUAL PERCEPTION

Brain Connection (brain based education on vision)
http://www.brainconnection.com/library/?main=bbhome/main

Exploratorium: seeing
http://www.exploratorium.edu/seeing/

IllusionWorks, L.L.C. (most comprehensive collection of optical and sensory illusions on the world-wide web)
http://psylux.psych.tu-dresden.de/i1/kaw/diverses%20Material/www.illusionworks.com/index.html

Laboratory for Scientific Visual Analysis
http://www.sv.vt.edu/index.html


VISUAL DATABASES OF IMAGES

Getty Images
http://www.gettyimages.com/


RELATED ASSOCIATIONS & FOUNDATIONS

American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
http://www.aiga.org/

Ars Electronica
http://www.aec.at/en/index.asp

College Art Association (CAA)
http://www.collegeart.org/

Cyberarts(Boston,US)
http://bostoncyberarts.org/

File
http://www.file.org.br/

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Literacy
http://www.ictliteracy.info/

International Institute of Neuroesthetics
http://www.neuroesthetics.org/

International Visual Sociology Association
http://sjmc.cla.umn.edu/faculty/schwartz/ivsa/

National Art Education Association (NAEA)
http://www.naea-reston.org/

National Geographic Society
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

National Science Foundation
http://www.nsf.gov/

Photo Therapy Centre
http://www.phototherapy-centre.com/home.htm

Rhizome.org
http://www.rhizome.org/

SIGGRAPH
http://www.siggraph.org/

Sociedade Brasileira de Design da Informação
http://www.sbdi.org.br/

Type Directors Club (TDC)
http://www.tdc.org/


VIDEO/DVD/CD RESOURCES

Video Data Bank (Chicago)
http://www.vdb.org/

Electronia Arts Intermix (NYC)
http://www.eai.org/eai/

Vtape (Toronto)
http://www.vtape.org/

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