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261) On web typography
Author
Series
Book Apart volume no. 11
Publisher
A Book Apart
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Typography is your design's voice and the most powerful tool you have to communicate with your readers. Learn how to wield type with care and wit: how to evaluate typefaces, consider technical constraints, create flexible typographic systems, and put together your own collection of favorite faces."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating tour through typographic history, Paul Shaw provides a visually rich exploration of digital type revival. Many typefaces from the pre-digital past have been reinvented for use on computers and mobile devices, while other new font designs are revivals of letterforms, drawn from inscriptions, calligraphic manuals, posters, and book jackets. Revival Type deftly introduces these fonts, many of which are widely used, and engagingly...
Publisher
Gestalten
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fully Booked : Ink on Paper is a showcase of innovative books and other print products at the vanguard of a new era for printed publications -- one that is likely to be the most exciting in their entire history. This book is structured into five chapters that each represent a key role that print plays today: The Storyteller, The Showmaster, The Teacher, The Businessman, and The Collector. From personal projects with the smallest print runs to premium...
Author
Publisher
David R. Godine, Publisher
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This book was designed and (except for the letterpress pages) set in type by Robert Bringhurst. The foundry type ... was handset in Stamford, Connecticut by Jerry Kelly. The Linotype metal was set by Davin Kuntze at the Woodside Press in Brooklyn, Jim Daggs at Ackley Publishing in Ackley, Iowa, and Michael Babcock at Linotypesetting in Allston, Massachusetts. The main text and illustrations were printed by five-color offset lithography at C&C (Zhōnghuá...
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Unique in the histories of typography and street fashion, the lettering that is the subject of this book remains without attribution: an iron-on typeface created anonymously and passed down over decades and across subcultures. As more than 300 richly layered illustrations in the book reveal (including previously unseen imagery from personal archives), this particular blackletter typeface, bold and imposing, decorates the fabric of the most influential...
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Though we think of the 1960s and the early '70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring and original. Thanks to advances in cheap offset printing, groups involved in antiwar, civil rights, and other social liberation issues began to spread their messages through provocatively designed newspapers...
273) Typeface
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At Hamilton, international artisans meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique. But the Museum's future is unclear. What is the responsibility of artists and historians to preserve a dying craft? How can rural towns survive in a shifting industrial...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This fascinating study of the role that graphic design played in American art of the 1960s and 1970s focuses on the work of George Maciunas, Ed Ruscha, and Sheila Levrant de Bretteville. Examining how each of these artists utilized typography, materiality, and other graphic design aesthetics, Benoit Buquet reveals the importance of graphic design in creating a sense of coherence within the disparate international group of Fluxus artists, an elusiveness...
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