About Face: Reviving The Rules Of Typography

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The computer has made some typographic rules obsolete while others, previously known only to typesetters, have also been forgotten. Despite this, typography remains a fundamental element of graphic design. About Face presents and explains the typography basics required by all graphic designers, from the names of the different parts of characters, typeface styles and their function, to type measurement, typeface families, and type manipulation on the computer. It als… More >>

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Slicing : Web Page, User Interface, Graphical User Interface, Client Side, User Interface Design, Graphic Art Software, Image File Format

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In web development, slicing is the process of dividing a single web page user interface composition layout (web page comp) into multiple image files (digital assets) of the graphical user interface (GUI) for one or more web pages. It is typically part of the client side development process of creating a web page and/or web site, but is also used in the user interface design process of software development and game developm… More >>

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The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923

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Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In The Visible Word, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works. She argues that Futurist, Dadaist, and Cubist artists emphasized materiality as the heart of their experimental approach to both visual and poetic forms of representation; by mid-century, howe… More >>

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