The Design Library series is a collection of the best design work in all categories selected by designers for designers. The package designs featured in these pages have been picked from the archive
Fine artist Sam Winston, cocreator of the New York Times best-selling A Child of Books, celebrates the power of stories and written languages―and the imperative to preserve them.Once there were many stories in the world. There were stories with sunsets and wonderful tales filled with fairies and dinosaurs. But one day, a story decided that it was the best, the most important story ever. It called itself the One and started to consume every other story it came across. The One ate stories made of seas and others full of dogs. Soon it seemed that the One was all there was . . . or was it? Inspired by the Endangered Alphabets project, aimed at preserving cultures by sharing their unique scripts, author-illustrator Sam Winston uses writing systems such as cuneiform and Tibetan, Egyptian hieroglyphs and ogham to illustrate this book in his signature typography-based style, using symbols and letters that have relayed the world’s stories over the centuries.
This book moves beyond the traditional rules-based approach by describing typography as a system of interrelated concerns heavily influenced by the contexts of audience, medium, and message. It presen
Frames typography as a system of interrelated concerns as much as it summarizes the traditional craft that is the usual content of books on typography. This book describes the constantly shifting terr
Typography is the art and technique of designing and arranging type, to make texts readable and appealing and therefore a fundamental area of graphic design. "Typography" gathers a selection of the mo
Typography is the most effective tool that graphic designers use to express ideas and convey a message. The ability to choose the right typeface for the right job, to design readable and legible pages
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
Within the field of typography, letterforms typically embody either static or kinetic forms. However there is another category of typography that escapes the purely static or purely kinetic. This is t
Presenting the work of 10 masters of typography like Ikko Tanaka, Fred Woodward, Robert Rodriguez, Oded Ezer, Paul Sych, DJ Stout. Included is a History of Typography by Allan Haley and articles on th
A showcase of the year's best typographic work created for a breadth of uses including books, magazines, stationery, web graphics, and more. For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encourage
A showcase of the year's best typographic work in print and on screen in advertising, communications, education, marketing, and publishing.The only annual publication devoted exclusively to the art of
