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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)

The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting

The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting

by Darren S. Wershler-Henry

The Iron Whim is an intelligent, irreverent, and humorous history of writing culture and technology. It covers the early history and evolution of the typewriter as well as the various attempts over the years to change the keyboard configuration, but it is primarily about the role played by this marvel in the writer's life. Darren Wershler-Henry populates his book with figures as disparate as Bram... (more)

100 Artists See Satan

100 artists showcase their conceptions of the world's all-time favorite bad boy, Satan, in this subversive response to the popular traveling exhibit ""100 Artists See God."" As the popularity of angels arises, so does their oversaturation in the art world. This is a tongue-in-cheek balancing of the cultural phenomena of angels: 100 devilish works of art, sincere, irreverent, and parodic.

Calligraphy and Illumination: A History and Practical Guide

Calligraphy and Illumination: A History and Practical Guide

by Patricia Lovett

Illuminated manuscripts provide a rich source of inspiration for today's calligraphers, artists, and graphic designers. Patricia Lovett, a professional calligrapher and expert on the medieval book arts, looks at the history of calligraphy and illumination, explores the use of gold in miniatures and highlighting, and then shows how to create a variety of projects ranging from the simple to the technically advanced.... (more)

Cosmic Type (Evergreen Series)

A comprehensive guide to digital sans-serif type faces, illustrated with full type samples in different sizes and weights.

365: AIGA Year in Design 23

by Alice Twemlow

365 is the American Institute of Graphic Art's annual presentation of the best in American design, featuring cutting-edge projects selected by a jury of preeminent designers and design critics from a year of design activity in the U.S. This year's awards are divided into a suite of 13 narrowly focused, independently judged competitions, including typographic design, illustration, editorial design, environmental... (more)

Type Selector

by Michael Worgotter

A user-friendly font swatch: an ingenious reference for anyone working in advertising, design, or publishing. If you're familiar with the Pantone color guide and can't imagine working without it at your desk and in presentations and meetings, have you ever wondered why there's not an equivalent tool for fonts and typefaces? Type Selector is the answer. This clever and unique new slipcased guide contains 226... (more)

Digital Color and Type

by Rob Carter

Digital Type and Colour explains how to work effectively on screen by mastering the fundamental principles of traditional typography: type and colour. The book opens with a through examination of the basics of type, colour and traditional typographic rules. It then explores how those rules can be broken to achieve new and innovative design. A wide variety of fully illustrated academic and professional case studies... (more)

Adobe InDesign CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job (At Work)

Adobe InDesign CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job (At Work)

by Cate Brosseau Indiano

Adobe InDesign CS2 is a powerful, but complicated, page layout technology. Sure, learning how to use the various tools and techniques is important, but what you really need and want to know is how to put those tools and techniques to use to complete projects at work. That's where Adobe InDesign CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job comes into play. The InDesign tools and basics are introduced to you in the... (more)

Adobe InDesign CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (Essentials)

Adobe InDesign CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (Essentials)

by John Cruise

InDesign CS2 is more than just a powerful page layout tool: As part of Adobe’s new Creative Suite 2 (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, and Acrobat), it’s a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create spectacular layouts. This info-packed guide lets you get right down to work by focusing on just the InDesign CS2 features... (more)

Exploring InDesign CS2 (Design Exploration)

Exploring InDesign CS2 (Design Exploration)

by Terry Rydberg

After more than a decade of teaching software classes, I have become convinced that the "recipe book" approach used in most software textbooks does a disservice to students who must be prepared for the rigors of a highly-competitive industry. In the real world projects do not come with directions, and students who have merely followed a "recipe" are crippled when the recipe book is taken away! Exploring InDesign... (more)

A Tally of Types: With Additions by Several Hands ; And With a New Introduction by Mike Parker

A Tally of Types: With Additions by Several Hands ; And With a New Introduction by Mike Parker

by Stanley Morison

This landmark book, first published in 1953 in a private keepsake edition and later revised and expanded, remains an indispensable reference for students of book design. It presents Stanley Morison at his best: opinionated, eclectic, offering his characteristic blend of erudition and insight. Finally available again after many years, A Tally of Types discusses twenty different faces, many cut under Morison's... (more)

Made With Fontfont: Type for Independent Minds

Made With Fontfont: Type for Independent Minds

by Jan Middendrop

Proves why FontFont has made an indelible impression on type and typography trends.

While You're Reading

by Gerard Unger

This book is about everything that happens while you’re reading, in front of your eyes and inside your head; and about what type designers, typographers and graphic designers bring to a page to make reading happen.Two examples of tantalizing questions will be answered: How is it possible to read without seeing any letters? How much hidden typographic knowledge does the average reader possess? Other subjects... (more)

Letterwork

by J. Brody Neuenschwander

This text brings the interest of the graphic designer and the lettering artist together by detailing the potential of original "type" in graphic design. Designers are increasingly aware of the basic skills of their profession and the originality they can bring. Drawing on packaging, sinage, poster, layout and jacket designs for example, this book shows how professionals from around the world have commissioned,... (more)

Typosphere: New Fonts to Make You Think (Loft Publications)

Typosphere: New Fonts to Make You Think (Loft Publications)

by Marta Serrats, Pilar Cano

Typosphere is a comprehensive guide for typographers and graphic designers who are fascinated by the latest font designs and their use in editorial design. The book is divided into different chapters: Aggressive, Funny, Nostalgic, Energy, Playful, Happy and Calm. With a selection of real typographical designs, the reader can not only discover the designs of new typographies, but can also explore the effect... (more)

Typography 20: the Annual of the Type Directors Club

Typography 20: the Annual of the Type Directors Club

Devoted exclusively to typography, this volume is virtually the only source in which to find a current record of the most exemplary typographic work produced worldwide. The winners of the Type Directors Club's 1998 competition were selected from thousands of entries of graphic design for books, magazines, logos, annual reports, video graphics, and more. The results of a separate contest for typeface design are... (more)

Decorative Alphabets and Initials (Dover Pictorial Archives)

Decorative Alphabets and Initials (Dover Pictorial Archives)

91 complete alphabets — medieval to modern — 3,927 decorative initials, including Victorian novelty and Art Nouveau.

C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems

by C.P. Cavafy

An extraordinary literary event: the simultaneous publication of a brilliant and vivid new rendering of C. P. Cavafy’s Collected Poems and the first-ever English translation of the poet’s thirty Unfinished Poems, both featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English—by the acclaimed critic, scholar, and award-winning author of The Lost. No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history... (more)

Japanese Border Designs CD-ROM and Book (Electronic Clip Art)

Japanese Border Designs CD-ROM and Book (Electronic Clip Art)

Chains, vines, florals, bamboo, lanterns, ships, calligraphy, feathers, fans, yang and yin, lutes, tortoises, and more: here are hundreds of authentic 19th-century Japanese designs, ranging from natural forms to abstracts and geometrics. A wonderful Eastern-inspired addition to art projects of every variety. 463 black-and-white and 96 full-color illustrations.

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