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Indie Fonts 2: A Compendium of Digital Type from Independent Foundries

Indie Fonts 2: A Compendium of Digital Type from Independent Foundries

For centuries, designers have chosen type styles to convey unique expressions and to make their work stand out from the crowd. Today’s computers provide a selection of fonts that serve reasonably well for workaday letters and publications, but have become utterly boring from overuse. If you want your project to attract the reader’s attention you need an original font. Independent type designers have devoted... (more)

House Industries

by House Industries

House Industries is famous for their impeccable tongue-in-cheek takes on American popular culture, on comic influences such as Ed "Big Daddy" Roth and on modern design classics from Neutra to Charles Eames. Based in Delaware, its members have been producing premier league typefaces and designs for a huge and devoted fan base since 1993. Because their font and design work deftly meld cultural, musical and... (more)

Design with Type

by Carl Dair

Design with Type takes the reader through a study of typography that starts with the individual letter and proceeds through the word, the line, and the mass of text. The contrasts possible with type are treated in detail, along with their applications to the typography ofbooks, advertising, magazines, and information data. The various contending schools oftypography are discussed, copiously illustrated with the... (more)

The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry, 1914-1928

The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry, 1914-1928

by Willard Bohn

In this, the only full-length study of the visual poetry of the early twentieth century, Willard Bohn expertly illuminates the works of Apollinaire, Josep-Maria Junow, Guillermo de Torre, and others. His fascinating aesthetic insights bring to life this elusive and often misunderstood genre. "An important contribution. Highly sophisticated, the study tends to raise its reader's impression of visual poetry in... (more)

The Alphabet Abecedarium: Some Notes on Letters

The Alphabet Abecedarium: Some Notes on Letters

by Richard A. Firmage

In the introduction to this work, Firmage, a book designer and editor, briefly traces the history of the Roman alphabet, noting how letter forms have changed to reflect their milieu. Thus, humanists abandoned medieval Gothic letters for what they believed were classical (actually Carolingian) forms. In the early 20th century, designers of the Bauhaus school stripped letters of their serifs as part of the rejection... (more)

Best of Business Card Design 7

The Best of Business Card Design series features an innovative collection of the most current and best work by top designers worldwide. Business card design is a very important and common area for the graphic design business, so it is little wonder that each installment in the series is recognized as a high quality resource that is eagerly anticipated by designers. The Best of Business Card Design 7 is the... (more)

Twenty-Two Tips on Typography

by Enric Jardi

22 typographic recipes that work and 22 common mistakes to avoid. This is a recipe book of twenty-two tips in creating the best typography and twenty-two things you should never do with lettering. Secrets which many designers will never reveal. In an era of typographic fundamentalism and the cult of forms, this list of dos and don'ts explodes myths and provides a fresh view of typography.

Afrikan Alphabets: The Story of Writing in Africa

Afrikan Alphabets: The Story of Writing in Africa

by Saki Mafundikwa

Afrikan alphabets have a rich cultural and artistic history. Many continue to be in current use today. Their story, however, is little known due largely to their past suppression by colonial powers. This book sets the record straight. Both entertaining and anecdotal, African Alphabets presents a wealth of highly graphical and attractive illustrations. Writing systems across the Afrikan continent and the Diaspora... (more)

Designing Typefaces

by David Earls

Despite the rapidly increasing number of typefaces in the world made possible by computers, type design is still complex, technical and can seem intimidating. Through interviews with 12 established typographers, this text explores approaches to contemporary type design. Idiosyncratic aspects of each designer's work are highlighted, and visual examples of work-in-progress demonstrate the creative development. A... (more)

Kingdomality: An Ingenious New Way to Triumph in Management

Kingdomality: An Ingenious New Way to Triumph in Management

by Sheldon M. Bowles

'By nature, by instinct, by personality, people react differently and use different techniques and ways of dealing with a situation. Success in the future will come to those who see people as unique individuals, with unique talents. Rather than just selecting people with the right skills, winning organizations will be those that also focus on selecting people with the skills who are also suited by temperament to... (more)

Logo Font & Lettering Bible: A Comprehensive Guide to the Design, Construction and Usage of Alphabets and Symbols

by Leslie Cabarga

This book is a hands-on guide to the entire process of making logos and fonts and even icons, all of which, essentially, start with the ability to draw letterforms. The intent of the book, in fact, is to enable the user to end reliance on "OPF" (other people's fonts) and learn to draw your own custom logos, fonts and lettering! There are many books on the market that simply display collections of logos and fonts,... (more)

Typography (Basics Design)

by Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris

This further addition to AVA's Basics Design series will follow on from Format and Layout to cover the third fundamental element of graphic design, typography. Typography is the means by which a written idea is given a visual form. The selection of this visual form can dramatically affect the readability of the written idea and a reader's feelings towards it due to the hundreds, if not thousands of typefaces... (more)

Type And Typography

by Andrew Haslam, Phil Baines

• Includes 2 extensive timecharts, one on type designers, one on the evolution of writing and printing—reference at a glance • Newly revised and expanded • Hundreds of remarkable photographs and illustrations From the history of language and writing systems, to the development of letterforms and movable type, to the evolution of today’s digital systems, Type and Typography offers an overview of the... (more)

The New Typography

by Jan Tschichold, Ruari McLean

Since its initial publication in Berlin in 1928, Jan Tschichold's The New Typography has been recognized as the definitive treatise on book and graphic design in the machine age. First published in English in 1995, with an excellent introduction by Robin Kinross, this new edition includes a foreword by Rich Hendel, who considers current thinking about Tschichold's life and work.

Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering: A Source Book of the Best Letter Forms of Past and Present for Sign Painters, Graphic Artists, Commercial Artis

Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering: A Source Book of the Best Letter Forms of Past and Present for Sign Painters, Graphic Artists, Commercial Artis

by Jan Tschichold

Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering is a classic source book of the most beautiful type and letters of all time selected by Jan Tschichold, internationally renowned typographer and master of lettering. It contains only letters of timeless and lasting beauty--the true mainsprings of the art of lettering. One hundred and seventy-six type specimens are presented, most of them in complete alphabets. The... (more)

Jan Tschichold: A Princeton Architectural Press Publication: A Life in Typography

Jan Tschichold: A Princeton Architectural Press Publication: A Life in Typography

by Ruari McLean

German type and book designer Jan Tschichold (1902-1974) revolutionized modern typography through his bold, asymmetrical designs and use of sanserif typography, both inspired by the work of the Bauhaus. He proclaimed his new design philosophy through a series of articles and books, including Die neue Typographie , published in Berlin in 1928. His international renown came largely as a result of his redesign... (more)

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