Just My Type

Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847652921
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.

Type and Typography

Author: Ben Rosen
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN: 9780442235031
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
This classic work has been revised to make it the definitive source on styles originating prior to photocomposition, including the often-neglected hot metal faces. 40 photographs and 10 line drawings.

Mastering Type

Author: Denise Bosler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440313717
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 752

Book Description
Good Design, Down to the Letter Packages on store shelves, posters on building walls, pages of a website—all contain information that needs to be communicated. And at the heart of that communication is type: visually interesting, interactive, expressive and captivating. Each letter must come alive; therefore, each letter must be carefully crafted or chosen. A solid foundation in typography, as well as an understanding of its nuances, will help you optimize your visual communication—in whatever form it takes. By breaking down the study of type into a systematic progression of relationships—letter, word, sentence, paragraph, page and screen—award-winning graphic designer and professor of communication design Denise Bosler provides a unique and illuminating perspective on typography for both print and digital media and for designers of all skill levels. Through instruction, interviews and real-world inspiration, Mastering Type explores the power of each typographic element--both as it stands alone and as it works with other elements--to create successful design, to strengthen your skill set and to inspire your next project.

The 3D Type Book

Author: Agathe Jacquillat
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781856697132
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book is the most comprehensive showcase of three-dimensional letterforms ever written, featuring over 1,300 images of more than 300 projects by more than 160 emerging talents and established individuals and studios including Sagmeister Inc, Vaughan Oliver, Milton Glaser, Alvin Lustig, Louis Danziger, Roger Excoffon, Paul Elliman, Marian Bantjes, Geoff Kaplan, Clotilde Olyff, Italo Lupi, Marion Bataille, Antoine+Manuel, Frost*Design, Mervyn Kurlansky, Non-Format, Oded Ezer, Rowland Scherman, Post Typography, Rinzen, Underwares Type Workshop, J. Kyle Daevel, Ji Lee, Pleaseletmedesign and Strange Attractors Design.As well as pioneering milestones from as far back as the 1940s, this book focuses on recent and brand new typographic projects. 3D type specialist Andrew Byrom explains the context and motivation behind these innovative works in an insightful foreword.

The Graphic Design Idea Book

Author: Gail Anderson
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 1780679939
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
This book serves as an introduction to the key elements of good design. Broken into sections covering the fundamental elements of design, key works by acclaimed designers serve to illustrate technical points and encourage readers to try out new ideas. Themes covered include narrative, colour, illusion, ornament, simplicity, and wit and humour. The result is an instantly accessible and easy to understand guide to graphic design using professional techniques.

Homotopy Type Theory: Univalent Foundations of Mathematics

Author:
Publisher: Univalent Foundations
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description

How to Use Type

Author: Lester Meachem
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 1780673841
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
This book is a guide to the use of type in design for print and screen. It provides a creative, informative and practical introduction for those studying all pathways of graphic design. The authors discuss who uses type, where and when type is employed, audience and appropriateness of type and communication. The book includes basic information about type and its terminology, using typefaces, designing and communicating with type, colour and movement, experimentation with type and production issues. Throughout, examples are drawn from design for both print and screen. How to Use Type includes illustrated activities and case studies linked to key issues discussed in the text. This book offers an invaluable overview of an essential aspect of visual communication.

Zoom-Type

Author: Renee R Ellison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 126

Book Description
Teach yourself how to type in 5 days instead of wasting all year on it. Zoom-Type is a revolutionary breakthrough in teaching touch-typing FAST by using the right brain. 100s of quick snapshots and a musical finger march get you seeing, saying, and tapping the correct keys with the correct fingers in just 5 days (each session lasts 5 minutes). For ages 4 to 94. Totally portable-no computer necessary. This is the only right-brain typing course on the market. You'll be speed-typing while students trying other programs are still just getting started. Most computer-based programs designed to teach typing are still in the dark ages, pedagogically. The brain learns best by pictures. This typing course is unique in 3 ways: (1) Spaced repetition-five-minute lessons, several times a day! Away with hour-long drudgery! Rapid-fire quick imprints of the autonomic nervous system gets the job done. (2) Right brain-uses the picture side of the brain, not just the left side as other typing methods do. With Zoom-Type, you subconsciously learn where the letters LIVE, not just what they ARE. (3) Splintered skills-you learn each skill separately, in small increments, and then when you put them together all the brain has to do is jump the synapses between the already acquired mini-skills. The brain is tricked into thinking the whole task is super EASY. THIS VERSION IS ONLY THE PAPERBACK BOOK. IT IS POSSIBLE TO LEARN THIS PROGRAM WITH ONLY THIS BOOK, BUT USING THE AUDIO FILES IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Contact Homeschool How-Tos at HOMESCHOOLHOWTOS.COM to order those MP-3 files for immediate download via WeTransfer.com after you received this book.

Removable Type

Author: Phillip H. Round
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080789947X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible printed in North America. It was printed not in English but in Algonquian, making it one of the first books printed in a Native language. In this ambitious and multidisciplinary work, Phillip Round examines the relationship between Native Americans and printed books over a two-hundred-year period, uncovering the individual, communal, regional, and political contexts for Native peoples' use of the printed word. From the northeastern woodlands to the Great Plains, Round argues, alphabetic literacy and printed books mattered greatly in the emergent, transitional cultural formations of indigenous nations threatened by European imperialism. Removable Type showcases the varied ways that Native peoples produced and utilized printed texts over time, approaching them as both opportunity and threat. Surveying this rich history, Round addresses such issues as the role of white missionaries and Christian texts in the dissemination of print culture in Indian Country, the establishment of "national" publishing houses by tribes, the production and consumption of bilingual texts, the importance of copyright in establishing Native intellectual sovereignty (and the sometimes corrosive effects of reprinting thereon), and the significance of illustrations.

Hero-Type

Author: Barry Lyga
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547348770
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
Everyone is treating Kevin as a hero. He was in the right place and the right time and he saved a girl from being murdered. Only Kevin knows though, why he was able to save her. Things get even more complicated when Kevin is seen removing two patriotic “Support the Troops” ribbons from his car bumper. Now the town that lauded him as a hero turns on him, calling him unpatriotic. Kevin, who hadn't thought much about it up to then, becomes politcially engaged, suddenly questioning what exactly supporting the troops or even saying the pledge of allegiance every day means.