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Just My Type

Author : Simon Garfield

Publisher : Profile Books

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 31,20 MB

Release : 2010-10-21

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1847652921

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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.



Type and Typography

Author : Ben Rosen

Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

Page : 414 pages

File Size : 14,24 MB

Release : 1989-01-01

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780442235031

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This classic work has been revised to make it the definitive source on styles originating prior to photocomposition, including the often-neglected hot metal faces. 40 photographs and 10 line drawings.



Mastering Type

Author : Denise Bosler

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 752 pages

File Size : 14,23 MB

Release : 2012-05-16

Category : Design

ISBN : 1440313717

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Good Design, Down to the Letter Packages on store shelves, posters on building walls, pages of a website—all contain information that needs to be communicated. And at the heart of that communication is type: visually interesting, interactive, expressive and captivating. Each letter must come alive; therefore, each letter must be carefully crafted or chosen. A solid foundation in typography, as well as an understanding of its nuances, will help you optimize your visual communication—in whatever form it takes. By breaking down the study of type into a systematic progression of relationships—letter, word, sentence, paragraph, page and screen—award-winning graphic designer and professor of communication design Denise Bosler provides a unique and illuminating perspective on typography for both print and digital media and for designers of all skill levels. Through instruction, interviews and real-world inspiration, Mastering Type explores the power of each typographic element--both as it stands alone and as it works with other elements--to create successful design, to strengthen your skill set and to inspire your next project.





How to Use Type

Author : Lester Meachem

Publisher : Laurence King Publishing

Page : 208 pages

File Size : 36,78 MB

Release : 2012-09-28

Category : Design

ISBN : 1780673841

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This book is a guide to the use of type in design for print and screen. It provides a creative, informative and practical introduction for those studying all pathways of graphic design. The authors discuss who uses type, where and when type is employed, audience and appropriateness of type and communication. The book includes basic information about type and its terminology, using typefaces, designing and communicating with type, colour and movement, experimentation with type and production issues. Throughout, examples are drawn from design for both print and screen. How to Use Type includes illustrated activities and case studies linked to key issues discussed in the text. This book offers an invaluable overview of an essential aspect of visual communication.



Removable Type

Author : Phillip H. Round

Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press

Page : 297 pages

File Size : 23,12 MB

Release : 2010-10-11

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 080789947X

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In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible printed in North America. It was printed not in English but in Algonquian, making it one of the first books printed in a Native language. In this ambitious and multidisciplinary work, Phillip Round examines the relationship between Native Americans and printed books over a two-hundred-year period, uncovering the individual, communal, regional, and political contexts for Native peoples' use of the printed word. From the northeastern woodlands to the Great Plains, Round argues, alphabetic literacy and printed books mattered greatly in the emergent, transitional cultural formations of indigenous nations threatened by European imperialism. Removable Type showcases the varied ways that Native peoples produced and utilized printed texts over time, approaching them as both opportunity and threat. Surveying this rich history, Round addresses such issues as the role of white missionaries and Christian texts in the dissemination of print culture in Indian Country, the establishment of "national" publishing houses by tribes, the production and consumption of bilingual texts, the importance of copyright in establishing Native intellectual sovereignty (and the sometimes corrosive effects of reprinting thereon), and the significance of illustrations.



Zoom-Type

Author : Renee R Ellison

Publisher :

Page : 126 pages

File Size : 31,14 MB

Release : 2004-02-03

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ISBN :

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Teach yourself how to type in 5 days instead of wasting all year on it. Zoom-Type is a revolutionary breakthrough in teaching touch-typing FAST by using the right brain. 100s of quick snapshots and a musical finger march get you seeing, saying, and tapping the correct keys with the correct fingers in just 5 days (each session lasts 5 minutes). For ages 4 to 94. Totally portable-no computer necessary. This is the only right-brain typing course on the market. You'll be speed-typing while students trying other programs are still just getting started. Most computer-based programs designed to teach typing are still in the dark ages, pedagogically. The brain learns best by pictures. This typing course is unique in 3 ways: (1) Spaced repetition-five-minute lessons, several times a day! Away with hour-long drudgery! Rapid-fire quick imprints of the autonomic nervous system gets the job done. (2) Right brain-uses the picture side of the brain, not just the left side as other typing methods do. With Zoom-Type, you subconsciously learn where the letters LIVE, not just what they ARE. (3) Splintered skills-you learn each skill separately, in small increments, and then when you put them together all the brain has to do is jump the synapses between the already acquired mini-skills. The brain is tricked into thinking the whole task is super EASY. THIS VERSION IS ONLY THE PAPERBACK BOOK. IT IS POSSIBLE TO LEARN THIS PROGRAM WITH ONLY THIS BOOK, BUT USING THE AUDIO FILES IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Contact Homeschool How-Tos at HOMESCHOOLHOWTOS.COM to order those MP-3 files for immediate download via WeTransfer.com after you received this book.



The Type-founder

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Publisher :

Page : 24 pages

File Size : 34,19 MB

Release : 1901

Category : Printing

ISBN :

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305 Lost Buildings of Canada

Author : Alex Bozikovic

Publisher :

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 13,98 MB

Release : 2022-03-22

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9781773102368

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The legacies of theaters, hotels, fire stations, flour mills, and more -- torn down, burned down, and otherwise lost -- are uncovered in this bittersweet collection. Using archival photographs, blueprints, and written reports, Raymond Biesinger has rendered a selection of Canada's most iconic lost buildings in his signature minimalist style. Accompanying Biesinger's illustrations are Alex Bozikovic's descriptions which capture each building's historical, cultural, and architectural significance. Bozikovic draws on local histories, archived building permits and his own extensive knowledge of the Canadian urban architectural landscape and its history -- from the letters passed through Kelowna's unlikely art deco post office to the destruction of a home in Halifax's Africville -- to offer fascinating, sometimes forgotten stories about each building and its significance. An impossible architectural walking tour, 305 Lost Buildings of Canada spans the country, its cities and countryside, and its history. Cities change, buildings come and go, but in this fact-filed compendium, you'll find the lost wonders of Canada's architecture.