Basic Typography: A Design Manual

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For designers, non-designers, and desktop publishers. Fine typography is timeless; typesetting technology may change, but there is only so much a good computer program can do. Using type creatively has more to do with aesthetics and common sense than it does with how the type is set, who sets it, or how much it costs. For guidance we can no longer look to the professional typographer for help; we are now the typographers.

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The Art Deco Design Movement

Cruising down Marine Drive in Mumbai, you would see a lot of Art Deco styled buildings much like the many picture you may see of buildings in Miami, typically hotels etc; all of them overlooking the sea, some well preserved, some rather seedy and ramshackle looking. Only Miami has more art deco buildings along the seafront than Mumbai. It was such a popular design mode of its time and such a distinctive and recognizable style that remnants of this style are visible at least in their residuary form all over the world:

  • Furniture
  • Appliances
  • Buildings
  • Automobiles
  • Jewelry
  • Fashion
  • Painting, graphic arts and film as well.

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Smart Graphics: 5th International Symposium, SG 2005, Frauenwörth Cloister, Germany, August 22-24, 2005, Proceedings

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Smart Graphics, SG 2005, held in Frauenwörth Cloister, Germany in August 2005. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for presentation. The papers address smart graphics issues from the points of view of computer graphics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, graphic design, and fine art; they are organized in topical sections on synthetic… More >>

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