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A showcase of the year’s best typographic work created for a breadth of uses including books, magazines, stationery, web graphics, and more. 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 29 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in this field for the year 2008. Selected from appro… More >>
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Fonts: A Guide for Designers and Editors is a practical reference for creating good-looking text in a variety of business applications, using popular Windows software tools. Unlike other font books, this unique guide focuses on specific, day-to-day business tasks. You’ll concentrate on executing the task—from generating memos to creating video titles—and learn to produce attractive text in the process. Learn the fundamentals of good typesetting:
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If you’ve ever wondered exactly what a Zapf is, or if Baskerville has anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, Type is the answer to these questions and more. This is the story of the passions, and obsessions of the creator of type; of the influences of wars, persecution, and political upheaval, and the effects of business and technological breakthroughs on fonts and typography. From Gutenberg’s first moveable type to the Internet, Simon Loxley tells the stories behind … More >>
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