Author: Rick Poynor
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568982984
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
"A trailblazer in its day, Typographica is ripe for rediscovery and reappraisal by a new generation of designers and image-makers. Its boundary-blurring fusion of modernist experimentation, visual and concrete poetry, and environmental photography anticipated many of the preoccupations of contemporary designers, artists, and cultural commentators." "Rick Poyner offers a carefully researched and illustrated book, paying tribute to the significant contribution Herbert Spencer and Typographica made to graphic design history."--BOOK JACKET.
Typographica
Author: Rick Poynor
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568982984
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
"A trailblazer in its day, Typographica is ripe for rediscovery and reappraisal by a new generation of designers and image-makers. Its boundary-blurring fusion of modernist experimentation, visual and concrete poetry, and environmental photography anticipated many of the preoccupations of contemporary designers, artists, and cultural commentators." "Rick Poyner offers a carefully researched and illustrated book, paying tribute to the significant contribution Herbert Spencer and Typographica made to graphic design history."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568982984
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
"A trailblazer in its day, Typographica is ripe for rediscovery and reappraisal by a new generation of designers and image-makers. Its boundary-blurring fusion of modernist experimentation, visual and concrete poetry, and environmental photography anticipated many of the preoccupations of contemporary designers, artists, and cultural commentators." "Rick Poyner offers a carefully researched and illustrated book, paying tribute to the significant contribution Herbert Spencer and Typographica made to graphic design history."--BOOK JACKET.
Just My Type
Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101577819
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you? Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every product we buy. But where do fonts come from, and why do we need so many? Who is responsible for the staid practicality of Times New Roman, the cool anonymity of Arial, or the irritating levity of Comic Sans (and the movement to ban it)? Typefaces are now 560 years old, but we barely knew their names until about twenty years ago when the pull-down font menus on our first computers made us all the gods of type. Beginning in the early days of Gutenberg and ending with the most adventurous digital fonts, Simon Garfield explores the rich history and subtle powers of type. He goes on to investigate a range of modern mysteries, including how Helvetica took over the world, what inspires the seeming ubiquitous use of Trajan on bad movie posters, and exactly why the all-type cover of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus was so effective. It also examines why the "T" in the Beatles logo is longer than the other letters and how Gotham helped Barack Obama into the White House. A must-have book for the design conscious, Just My Type's cheeky irreverence will also charm everyone who loved Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Schott's Original Miscellany.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101577819
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you? Fonts surround us every day, on street signs and buildings, on movie posters and books, and on just about every product we buy. But where do fonts come from, and why do we need so many? Who is responsible for the staid practicality of Times New Roman, the cool anonymity of Arial, or the irritating levity of Comic Sans (and the movement to ban it)? Typefaces are now 560 years old, but we barely knew their names until about twenty years ago when the pull-down font menus on our first computers made us all the gods of type. Beginning in the early days of Gutenberg and ending with the most adventurous digital fonts, Simon Garfield explores the rich history and subtle powers of type. He goes on to investigate a range of modern mysteries, including how Helvetica took over the world, what inspires the seeming ubiquitous use of Trajan on bad movie posters, and exactly why the all-type cover of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus was so effective. It also examines why the "T" in the Beatles logo is longer than the other letters and how Gotham helped Barack Obama into the White House. A must-have book for the design conscious, Just My Type's cheeky irreverence will also charm everyone who loved Eats, Shoots & Leaves and Schott's Original Miscellany.
Explorations in Typography
Author: Carolina de Bartolo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984370702
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Paperback edition
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984370702
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Paperback edition
Principia Typographica, the Block-books, Or Xylographic Delineations of Scripture History ... During the Fifteenth Century ; ... Elucidate the Character of the Water-marks of the Period
Author: Samuel Leigh Sotheby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Gesta Typographica
Author: Charles Thomas Jacobi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Bibliotheca typographica
Author: Sotheby's (Londen)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Principia Typographica
Author: Samuel Leigh Sotheby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Incunabula Typographica
Author: Henry Walters
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Numismata typographica; or, The medallic history of printing
Author: William Blades
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Principia Typographica: Paper-marks
Author: Samuel Leigh Sotheby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Block books
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description