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These are exercises I completed from November 10, 1995, to June 11, 1996, while I was reading Donis A. Dondis' A Primer of Visual Literacy (MIT Press, 1973). I picked this book up long ago as a graduate student at MIT when the MIT Press was selling off some of its surplus books. The title intrigued me. I read it through once around then without working through the exercises. More recently I picked it up again, worked through the exercises, and was very impressed and pleased by the work they provoked. I find it a very thought provoking and useful book.

I was also interested in the ways computer software could be used to simulate some activities required by the exercises in a more convenient, quick and/or economical way. See Exercises 4.2 and 4.4.

Many exercises whose answers didn't fit this text and picture format -- like those involving collage construction, or those whose answers I could scribble in the margin -- are omitted here. When I first did the exercises, I recorded the solutions you see here using TeX. However, I now find HTML is a much more convenient and portable format.