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Rockport’s “Web Site Graphics” series – focusing on separate but critical elements of online graphic design – is now available in one complete volume. This text looks at how designers use colour, type and navigation to create compelling sites. “Web Design Basics” covers all the essentials of site design, from tricks and techniques for uses of colour that attract attention and improve readability, to typographic techniques that engage the eye. It also includes exampl… More >>
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Since its first publication in 1969, Pioneers of Modern Typography has been the standard guide to the avant-garde origins of modern graphic design and typography. In this essential reference, Herbert Spencer shows how new concepts in graphic design in the early decades of the twentieth century had their roots in the artistic movements of the time in painting, poetry, and architecture. Spencer examines the “heroic” period of modern design and typography, the beginnin… More >>
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Type Spaces examines pages of books printed and published by Aldus Manutius in Venice around 1500. By measuring the word-spaces, author Peter Burnhill discerns a system of measurement at work and comes up with the surprising suggestion that this printing shows a unified system of dimensions: of type size, of “leading” or line-increment, of line length, and of text area. He argues that the exceptional figures of Manutius and his punchcutter, Francesco Griffo, used a … More >>