Author: Edward Rondthaler
Publisher: Hastings House Book Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Life with Letters--as They Turned Photogenic
Author: Edward Rondthaler
Publisher: Hastings House Book Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher: Hastings House Book Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The Elements of Graphic Design
Author: Alex W. White
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1581157622
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A guide to graphic design.
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1581157622
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A guide to graphic design.
Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Author: Philip B. Meggs
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118772059
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
The bestselling graphic design reference, updated for the digital age Meggs' History of Graphic Design is the industry's unparalleled, award-winning reference. With over 1,400 high-quality images throughout, this visually stunning text guides you through a saga of artistic innovators, breakthrough technologies, and groundbreaking developments that define the graphic design field. The initial publication of this book was heralded as a publishing landmark, and author Philip B. Meggs is credited with significantly shaping the academic field of graphic design. Meggs presents compelling, comprehensive information enclosed in an exquisite visual format. The text includes classic topics such as the invention of writing and alphabets, the origins of printing and typography, and the advent of postmodern design. This new sixth edition has also been updated to provide: The latest key developments in web, multimedia, and interactive design Expanded coverage of design in Asia and the Middle East Emerging design trends and technologies Timelines framed in a broader historical context to help you better understand the evolution of contemporary graphic design Extensive ancillary materials including an instructor's manual, expanded image identification banks, flashcards, and quizzes You can't master a field without knowing the history. Meggs' History of Graphic Design presents an all-inclusive, visually spectacular arrangement of graphic design knowledge for students and professionals. Learn the milestones, developments, and pioneers of the trade so that you can shape the future.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118772059
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
The bestselling graphic design reference, updated for the digital age Meggs' History of Graphic Design is the industry's unparalleled, award-winning reference. With over 1,400 high-quality images throughout, this visually stunning text guides you through a saga of artistic innovators, breakthrough technologies, and groundbreaking developments that define the graphic design field. The initial publication of this book was heralded as a publishing landmark, and author Philip B. Meggs is credited with significantly shaping the academic field of graphic design. Meggs presents compelling, comprehensive information enclosed in an exquisite visual format. The text includes classic topics such as the invention of writing and alphabets, the origins of printing and typography, and the advent of postmodern design. This new sixth edition has also been updated to provide: The latest key developments in web, multimedia, and interactive design Expanded coverage of design in Asia and the Middle East Emerging design trends and technologies Timelines framed in a broader historical context to help you better understand the evolution of contemporary graphic design Extensive ancillary materials including an instructor's manual, expanded image identification banks, flashcards, and quizzes You can't master a field without knowing the history. Meggs' History of Graphic Design presents an all-inclusive, visually spectacular arrangement of graphic design knowledge for students and professionals. Learn the milestones, developments, and pioneers of the trade so that you can shape the future.
Classic Typefaces
Author: David Consuegra
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621535827
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Graphic designers will enrich their understanding of American type design and type designers with this unique and extensive reference. The fascinating history of type in America is chronicled through the typefaces and biographies of sixty-two of the most influential type designers, including Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton, and Darius Wells, and through the description and history of nine American type foundries. Complete with samples of 334 different typefaces, and 700 black-and-white illustrations, this eye-popping reference reveals the expansive contribution America has made to the world of type design.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621535827
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 894
Book Description
Graphic designers will enrich their understanding of American type design and type designers with this unique and extensive reference. The fascinating history of type in America is chronicled through the typefaces and biographies of sixty-two of the most influential type designers, including Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton, and Darius Wells, and through the description and history of nine American type foundries. Complete with samples of 334 different typefaces, and 700 black-and-white illustrations, this eye-popping reference reveals the expansive contribution America has made to the world of type design.
Lives and Letters
Author: Robert Gottlieb
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429961066
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Robert Gottlieb's Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times. From the world of literature, Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Judith Krantz, John Steinbeck, and Rudyard Kipling; the controversies surrounding Bruno Bettelheim and Elia Kazan; and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her editor, Maxwell Perkins. From dance and theater, Isadora Duncan and Margot Fonteyn, Serge Diaghilev and George Balanchine, Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. In Hollywood, Bing Crosby and Judy Garland, Douglas Fairbanks and Lillian Gish, Tallulah Bankhead and Katharine Hepburn, Mae West and Anna May Wong. In New York, Diana Vreeland, the Trumps, and Gottlieb's own take on the contretemps that followed his replacing William Shawn at The New Yorker. And so much more . . .
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429961066
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The product of a lifetime immersed in the literary, performing arts, and entertainment worlds, Robert Gottlieb's Lives and Letters spotlights the work, careers, intimate lives, and lasting achievements of a vast array of celebrated writers and performers in film, theater, and dance, and some of the more curious iconic public figures of our times. From the world of literature, Charles Dickens, James Thurber, Judith Krantz, John Steinbeck, and Rudyard Kipling; the controversies surrounding Bruno Bettelheim and Elia Kazan; and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her editor, Maxwell Perkins. From dance and theater, Isadora Duncan and Margot Fonteyn, Serge Diaghilev and George Balanchine, Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. In Hollywood, Bing Crosby and Judy Garland, Douglas Fairbanks and Lillian Gish, Tallulah Bankhead and Katharine Hepburn, Mae West and Anna May Wong. In New York, Diana Vreeland, the Trumps, and Gottlieb's own take on the contretemps that followed his replacing William Shawn at The New Yorker. And so much more . . .
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out how Type Works
Author: Erik Spiekermann
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0321934288
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Explains what type is, demonstrates how to select it, and examines its use in printed communication.
Publisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0321934288
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Explains what type is, demonstrates how to select it, and examines its use in printed communication.
Thinking in Type
Author: Alex W. White
Publisher: Allworth Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
"With this visually stunning primer, designers will develop the skills and vision to produce truly innovative, stunning type design. Using more than 1,500 images from the 18th century up to the present day, the author describes type as a unique language that follows its own rules for communication and that requires great sensitivity for the reader's needs. Like its companion volume The Elements of Graphic Design, the book can be used as a first exposure primer for students and as a reader for professionals. Section one covers basic information about type design, while the remaining sections, What Readers Want, Creativity, and Typography Timeline, provide in-depth information about more advanced topics. Chapters include the elements of typography; the differences between type applications; how typography creates identity; what readers look for and respond to; step-by-step guides to developing distinctive type treatments; how to generate type ideas; and the historical development of typographic rules and letter forms. Written by a practitioner who regularly collaborates with today's leading type designers around the globe, this book offers insights into typography that normally require years of professional practice. Designed in an innovative two-color layout, the book provides a fun and systematic learning experience on multiple levels." --Allworth.
Publisher: Allworth Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
"With this visually stunning primer, designers will develop the skills and vision to produce truly innovative, stunning type design. Using more than 1,500 images from the 18th century up to the present day, the author describes type as a unique language that follows its own rules for communication and that requires great sensitivity for the reader's needs. Like its companion volume The Elements of Graphic Design, the book can be used as a first exposure primer for students and as a reader for professionals. Section one covers basic information about type design, while the remaining sections, What Readers Want, Creativity, and Typography Timeline, provide in-depth information about more advanced topics. Chapters include the elements of typography; the differences between type applications; how typography creates identity; what readers look for and respond to; step-by-step guides to developing distinctive type treatments; how to generate type ideas; and the historical development of typographic rules and letter forms. Written by a practitioner who regularly collaborates with today's leading type designers around the globe, this book offers insights into typography that normally require years of professional practice. Designed in an innovative two-color layout, the book provides a fun and systematic learning experience on multiple levels." --Allworth.
A History of Graphic Design
Author: Philip B. Meggs
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Here is the first definitive history of graphic communication. More than a thousand vivid illustrations chronicle our fascinating & unceasing quest to give visual form to ideas.
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Here is the first definitive history of graphic communication. More than a thousand vivid illustrations chronicle our fascinating & unceasing quest to give visual form to ideas.
Paperbound Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1840
Book Description
Modern Encyclopedia of Typefaces, 1960-90
Author: L. W. Wallis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description