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Our all-time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and...
2) Helvetica
Publisher
Plexifilm
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Helvetica is a documentary film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. An exploration of urban spaces and the type that inhabits them, Helvetica invites us to take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day.
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications. Covering a broad range of technologies -- from electronic publications and websites to videos and mobile devices -- this hands-on primer presents the latest information available to help designers make critical creative decisions, including how to choose typefaces for the screen, how to style beautiful, functional...
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Publisher
Rockport Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"This book presents information on type - the cornerstone of graphic design - succinctly and to the point, so that designers can get the information they need quickly and easily. Each project features well-crafted type that has succeeded, and the text teaches you how to choose fonts, sizes and colors; incorporate text and illustraions, and avoid common mistakes in text usage."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
1961 college graduate Happy embarks on his new advertising job with an eccentric team of co-workers, an effort that is marked by their struggles to land promising clients and Happy's participation in a devastating Yale psychology experiment.
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Series
Publisher
Allworth Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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"This very popular design book has been wholly revised and expanded to feature a new dimension of inspiring and counterintuitive ideas to thinking about graphic design relationships. The Elements of Graphic Design, Second Edition is now in full color in a larger, 8 x 10-inch trim size, and contains 40 percent more content and over 750 images to enhance and better clarify the concepts in this thought-provoking resource. The second edition also includes...
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Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This comprehensive illustrated history begins with the origins of the alphabet itself and carries the reader through the first handwritten books, the invention of printing in the Renaissance, the explosion of graphic styles (and printed media) in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the impact of digital technology on design today. This work explores the evolution of styles under the pressure of social, cultural, and technological change, accompanied...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Shows how to attract attention with the layout formats of Picture Window, Silhouette, Square Zero, Mondrian, Closure, Oversizing, Juxtaposition, Surrealism, and Shock. Discusses how graphic designers direct attention within an ad by using the layout techniques of “diagonal”, “standard”, “C”, “Z”, “overlapping”, and “spatial progression.” Concludes with a special section on the importance and use of headlines and sub-headlines....
13) Typography 35
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English
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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 type, Typography 35 presents the finest work in the field for 2013. Selected from approximately 2,300 international submissions to the annual Type Directors Club competition, the winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in the use...
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English
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The Anatomy of Type is the ultimate stylistic guide to the intricacies and design of 100 indispensable typefaces. A delightful, colorful, and visual reference guide created by Stephen Coles and Tony Seddon-two acknowledged pros in the font design world-The Anatomy of Type was developed with typographers, graphic designers, and font geeks in mind, graphically and visually expanding on the current font-mania initiated by Simon Garfields's Just My Type....
15) Typography 34
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Language
English
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For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions. Typography 34 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in the field for the year 2012. Selected from approximately 2300 international submissions to the annual Type Directors Club competition, the winning designs are models of excellence...
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English
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Exploring the methods for teaching and learning typography, this book features more than 40 essays from top experts and educators in typography today. These essays run the gamut from introducing the themes of type and typography to various complex and rare strategies for learning.
17) Printers' Tales
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English
Description
Printers Tales is a compilation of over 30 stories, from various authors, about the printing industry in the pre-digital age.Before computers became common-place in the late 1970s, to produce a printed page required the skill and expertise of a multitude of time-served craftsmen.Compositors worked with lead type to create words letter by letter. Paper was pressed on to inked letters to reproduce words and sentences. Many of these skills have long-since...
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English
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Playing with Type is a hands-on, playful approach to learning type application and principles. This engaging guide begins with an introduction to the philosophy of learning through the process of play. Along with a series of experimental design projects with an emphasis on type, the author provides designers with a "toolkit" of ideas and skills developed through the process of play. The awareness and sensitivity to type styles, forms, and type choices...
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English
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Explore the fundamentals of typography with this practical new guide. An instructional reader rather than historical survey, Design Elements: Typography Fundamentals uses well-founded, guiding principles to teach the language of type and how to use it capably. Designers are left with a solid ground on which to design with type. Limitless potential for meaningful and creative communication exists-this is the field guide for the journey!
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Language
English
Description
What goes on inside a paragraph of printed text? Cyrus Highsmith's Inside Paragraphs is an essential primer on the basics of typography that focuses specifically on the role of printed text within a paragraph. Engaging full-page illustrations and Highsmith's accessible explanations show the role of white space between letters, words, and lines. Perfect for students and professionals alike, this updated edition includes a new preface.
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