A View of Early Typography: Up To About 1600

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A View of Early Typography has long been regarded as the classic text on the production and use of type in the first 150 years of printing. By focusing on type, Harry Carter goes to the heart of design, the point at which the material processes of printing meet the intellectual concerns of publishers and the nature of the texts they publish. Among the topics covered: the diversity of letterforms (blackletter, roman, italic, and more); the tensions between Latin and … More >>

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Understanding Graphic Communication : Selected Readings

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Taking a philosophical approach to the industry, this unique book looks at the history of printing and its key figures and contributions and provides new ways of looking at graphic communication. How do people involved in graphic communication think? What motivates them? How does the technology of the field evolve? Harvey R. Levenson explores these questions and looks at graphic communication’s role in the evolution of humanity and in shaping communication ne… More >>

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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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