Five Hundred Years of Book Design

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What decisions lie behind the way a book is designed? How are readers of books helped or hindered by the choices that a designer, publisher or printer has made in presenting an author’s text to its intended audience? Are there any lessons we can learn from a study of books produced over the last 500 years? In this study of book design of the past five centuries, Alan Bartram looks at the successes and failures of his predecessors. Some classics of layout and product… More >>

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Typography Is For Cool Kids

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The final project for the Typography for Print and Web class at La Salle University, this book is one student’s ideas on how typography works in the eyes of the cool kid. Setting type as mood, logos, as well as style ideas and a list of his top five fonts, I explain what I think and feel about typography…. More >>

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Type. A Visual History of Typefaces & Graphic Styles, 1901-1938

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A visual history of fonts and graphic styles: volume 2

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