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Author : Eric Gill
Publisher : [Westerham] : Eva Svensson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill written by Eric Gill and published by [Westerham] : Eva Svensson. This book was released on 1976 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Gill
Publisher : [Westerham] : Eva Svensson
ISBN 13 : 9780903696043
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill written by Eric Gill and published by [Westerham] : Eva Svensson. This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Gill
Publisher : [Westerham] : Eva Svensson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill written by Eric Gill and published by [Westerham] : Eva Svensson. This book was released on 1976 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Peace
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Eric Gill, the Inscriptions written by David Peace and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the prolific master artist-craftsman Eric Gill turned his talents to inscriptional lettering, he created some of the most elegant monuments known. All 900 are catalogued here, from his first sonte inscription in 1901 to his design for his own gravestone in 1940.
Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652921
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Just My Type written by Simon Garfield and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.
Author : Neil Macmillan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300111514
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (115 download)
Download or read book An A-Z of Type Designers written by Neil Macmillan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "This illustrated A-Z features outstanding type designers from around the world, from Gutenberg to the present day. Arranged alphabetically by designer's name, the book contains over 260 biographical profiles. Entries are illustrated by key typefaces taken from a wide range of sources, including type specimens, original posters, private press editions and magazine covers, and also give a list of work and, where applicable, further reading references and a website address. An essential reference for typographers, graphic designers and students, the book also features a full index and eight short texts by leading typographers - Jonathan Barnbrook, Erik van Blokland, Clive Bruton, John Downer, John Hudson, Jean Francois Porchez, Erik Spiekermann and Jeremy Tankard - that cover a variety of different aspects of type design, including typeface revivals, font piracy, designing fonts for corporate identities and the role of nationality in type design."--BOOK JACKET
Author : Eric Gill
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780879239503
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (395 download)
Download or read book An Essay on Typography written by Eric Gill and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1988 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Essay on Typography was first published in 1931, instantly recognized as a classic, and has long been unavailable. It represents Gill at his best: opinionated, fustian, and consistently humane. It is his only major work on typography and remains indispensable for anyone interested in the art of letter forms and the presentation of graphic information. This manifesto, however, is not only about letters "š€š" their form, fit, and function "š€š" but also about man's role in an industrial society. As Gill wrote later, it was his chief object "to describe two worlds "š€š" that of industrialism and that of the human workman "š€š" and to define their limits." His thinking about type is still provocative. Here are the seeds of modern advertising: unjustified lines, tight word and letter spacing, ample leading. Here is vintage Gill, as polemical as he is practical, as much concerned about the soul of man as the work of man; as much obsessed by the ends as by the means.
Author : Walter Tracy
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567922400
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Letters of Credit written by Walter Tracy and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolution in typesetting - a revolution that over the past two decades has eliminated a five-hundred-year-old system of hot metal production and replaced it with one of photo-generated and computer-driven composition - shows no sign of winding down. This book, more than any other we know, traces the steps that went into that revolution and simultaneously makes the argument that the letter forms themselves are in process of evolution. Tracy argues that, whether they are of the sixteenth or the twentieth century, the forms that comprise our alphabet are subject to the same rules of good taste, proportion, and clarity that have always obtained. But what we face today is vastly different from fifty years ago. For the first time, new technology has made the proliferation (and, as some would maintain, debasement) of letter forms fast and easy (or quick and dirty.) With fifty years of professional experience on both sides of the Atlantic (including thirty years as head of type design for the British Linotype Company), Tracy is in a unique position to make this argument and arrive at his sad conclusion: the design of distinguished, contemporary typefaces is far outnumbered by the mediocre and downright bad. Part of the reason for this deplorable deterioration is a lack of critical analysis of the particular esthetics involved. This step-by-step examination of type-design esthetics is precisely what Tracy provides here, while avoiding both the promoter's hype and the manufacturer's claims. Here are the gut issues of what makes type good or bad, legible or unreadable. Extensively illustrated with both typefaces and line drawings, this book belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in thehistory of letters or in the artistry and peculiar problems that lie behind their production.
Author : Fiona MacCarthy
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571265820
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Eric Gill written by Fiona MacCarthy and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeous new edition of Fiona MacCarthy's ground-breaking biography of the artist- craftsman, typographer, and lettercutter, master wood-engraver, and sculptor: Eric Gill. 'Fascinating on the work and fair to the man; a brilliant biography.' Independent 'Scrupulous and sensitive . . . A wise and foolish English eccentric in full glory.' Observer 'Full of insight and interest . . . A considerable addition to modern biography.' Times Eric Gill was the greatest English artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a typographer and lettercutter of genius and a master in the art of sculpture and wood-engraving. He was a devoted family man and key figure in three Catholic art and craft communities: yet he also believed in complete sexual freedom. In her controversial, landmark biography, originally published in 1989, celebrated biographer Fiona MacCarthy delves into the complex, dark, and contradictory sides of the man and the artist for the first time - and the result is his definitive portrait.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780304322084
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)
Download or read book 25 Nudes written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander S. Lawson
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780879233334
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Anatomy of a Typeface written by Alexander S. Lawson and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1990 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To the layman, all printing types look the same. But for typographers, graphic artists and others of that lunatic fringe who believe that the letters we look at daily (and take entirely for granted) are of profound importance, the question of how letters are formed, what shape they assume, and how they have evolved remains one of passionate and continuing concern. Lawson explores the vast territory of types, their development and uses, their antecedents and offspring, with precision, insight, and clarity. Written for the layman but containing exhaustive research, drawings and synopses of typefaces, this book is an essential addition to the library of anyone s typographic library. It is, as Lawson states, not written for the printer convinced that there are already too many typefaces, but rather for that curious part of the population that believes the opposite; that the subtleties of refinement as applies to roman and cursive letters have yet to be fully investigated and that the production of the perfect typeface remains a goal to be as much desired by present as by future type designers. Anyone aspiring to typographic wisdom should own and treasure this classic."--Amazon description.
Author : NEILSON
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781848224759
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Inscriptions of Ralph Beyer written by NEILSON and published by Lund Humphries Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Beyer (1921-2008), exiled at the age of sixteen from Nazi Germany, made his home and career in Britain. He was a carver of stone inscriptions, best known for his huge 'Tablets of the Word' in Basil Spence's Coventry Cathedral. These broke the mould of classical formality associated with British lettercarving after Eric Gill -- their irregularity and roughness offending conventional notions of 'correctness'. In fact, Beyer had spent a few formative months in Gill's workshop, but his own unique voice owed as much to his childhood in Weimar Germany and his father's wide interests, which ranged from Modernist architecture to 'primitive' art. In Britain, Beyer came to know Henry Moore and Nikolaus Pevsner, and was influenced by the artist and poet David Jones. He thus straddles both German and British traditions in lettering as well as the wider art world. This book, profusely illustrated, charts Beyer's increasing sensitivity to words and their realisation in stone. It places his inscriptions, and to a lesser extent his typeface design and sculpture, in context, in the process raising questions about hand lettering itself and what place the making of stone inscriptions may have.
Author : Roy Brewer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Eric Gill: the Man who Loved Letters written by Roy Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hermann Esser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Draughtsman's Alphabets written by Hermann Esser and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393064425
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks written by Keith Houston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.
Author : Paul Rand
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300230915
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Design, Form, and Chaos written by Paul Rand and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Rand's stature as one of the world's leading graphic designers is incontestable. For half a century his pioneering work in the field of advertising design and typography has exerted a profound influence on the design profession; he almost single-handedly transformed "commercial art" from a practice that catered to the lowest common denominator of taste to one that could assert its place among the other fine arts. Among the numerous clients for whom he has been a consultant and/or designer are the American Broadcasting Company, IBM Corporation, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation. In this witty and instructive book, Paul Rand speaks about the contemporary practice of graphic design, explaining the process and passion that foster good design and indicting faddism and trendiness. Illustrating his ideas with examples of his own stunning graphic work as well as with the work of artists he admires, Rand discusses such topics as: the values on which aesthetic judgments are based; the part played by intuition in good design; the proper relationship between management and designers; the place of market research; how and when to use computers in the production of a design; choosing a typeface; principles of book design; and the thought processes that lead to a final design. The centerpiece of the book consists of seven design portfolios - with diagrams and ultimate choices - that Rand used to present his logos to clients such as Next, IDEO, and IBM.
Author : Timothy Samara
Publisher : Rockport Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1631594745
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Letterforms written by Timothy Samara and published by Rockport Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designer, author, educator Timothy Samara is a world authority on type and graphic design. His 2004 Rockport book, Typography Workbook has become an essential reference text for design classrooms and industry professionals. Now, in Letter Forms: The Design of Type, Past to Future he takes readers even deeper, expertly guiding them through the aesthetics as well as the technical considerations of his subject. He begins with an overview spanning the invention of movable type to today's digital typography, and ends with a showcase of contemporary fonts. Samara's true focus in this book is conveying the essentials of type design to practitioners, and thoughtfully and thoroughly explaining and illustrating the development of form and style. He walks you through letter form anatomy, stroke formation and rhythm, tool methodologies, structure and proportion, tool methodologies, and tons more. This all makes for one excellent, timely reference work that designers can return to in designing logos, wordmarks, signage, titling accents, and all of their graphic design work.
