Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics that People Understand by Connie Malamed presents visual design principles based on the science of how people perceive, process and understand graphics. It includes over 300 graphics contributed by talented artists and designers from around the world. It explores these six principles:
1. How to organize graphics for quick perception
2. How to direct the eyes to quickly see essential information
3. How to use visual shorthand for efficient communication
4. How to make abstract ideas concrete
5. How to express visual complexity
6. How to charge a graphic with energy and emotion