A delightfully inquisitive tour that explores the rich history and the subtle powers of fonts.Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about
As a book on new typography with a modernist feel, this volume has a strong design message: postmodernism looks like the 1960''s, only cleaner. In fact, when it''s not looking like a Saul Bass title s
A tome of the newest advances in printmaking for today’s environmentally conscious art students, master printers, teachers, and artists Etching, lithography, and screenprinting shouldn’t be harmful to
Everyone is a typographer. This is the inevitable conclusion when looking at the way in which today’s computer users are forced to make decisions about fonts and layout for their day-to-day communicat
Portraits were central to the work of Lucian Freud (1922–2011). Working only from life, the artist claimed, "I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't actually there in front of me." This
Holy cards offer comfort, consolation, and encour-agement to Catholics, who often carry these portable images with them and use them in daily religious rituals. Given as remembrances at wakes and fune
Now in its second edition, this innovative look at the history of graphic design explores its evolution from the 19th century to the present day. Author Stephen J. Eskilson demonstrates how a new era
Typography, Referenced was named to the 2013 Outstanding Reference Sources List, an annual handpicked list from the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA, a division of the American Library As
The Type Directors Club showcases the year's best typographic work created for books, magazines, stationery, web graphics, and more. Curated by Mucca Design founder Matteo Bologna, this anthology repr
Web Typography uses a foundation of typographic terminology and graphic design rules to approach the ever-changing question of effective modern website design. It uses monographs and detailed examples
This book will not only help type designers create high-legibility typefaces, but also help graphic designers determine the optimal typeface for a given project. Few of us will appreciate whether the
Now more than ever, graphic designers need to embrace web and print together. Even though they are two different mediums, they have to work simultaneously to communicate the message. As time progresse
Typography is still dominated by letterforms from the first one hundred years of European printing. Where were the processes and attitudes that lie behind these forms? Fred Smeijers is a type desinger
Exquisite graphic design artifacts comprise this unusual collection culled from the pages of type and typography books dating from 1896 to 1936. Design professionals, students and teachers of graphic
In 1891, the Dutch firm of Joh. Enschede and Sons produced a catalog of graphic embellishments now regarded as the finest publication of its type. This compilation includes a splended assortment of 18
In the early 1990s, celebrated graphic designer Paula Scher (Make It Bigger, 2002) began painting maps of the world as she sees it. The larger her canvases grew, the more expressionistic her geographi
In the last thirty years of the Soviet Communist project, Viktor Koretsky’s art struggled to solve an enduring riddle: how to ensure or restore Communism’s moral health through the production of a dis
A useful current overview for designers, consultants, agencies, and their customers of modernfonts, independent foundries, and innovative type designers.In the past, there were only a few specialists
Note to customers: The print version of this book is highly formatted, and many pages contain examples that use a variety of approaches to text layout including the use of multiple fonts. The subtleti
