books about: typographic     books:       Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual1 review Josef Muller-Brockmann Hastings House Pub, 1981 The only book you'll need for Graphic Design! When a graphic designer organizes information into a visual communication he/she must organize the information so that the audience can easily navigate throughout the communication. Visual hierarcies are established and grids are created as an aid to the communication. READ THIS FIRST!             Typographic Communications Today2 reviews Edward Gottschall The MIT Press, 1989 A Great Book on the Graphics Arts This book is a hodge-podge of graphic arts and typography. It has little bit of everything: modern and historical examples of the uses of typefaces in advertising, business and the graphic arts. It is published by the International Typeface Corporation and is printed on a very dense glossy paper by Nai Nippon Printing Co. Japan. The quality of the printing is suberb; the colors and details are ...             Emotional Digital: A Sourcebook of Contemporary Typographics2 reviews W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 excellent This book displays great usage of typography, and typographic styles. An excellent book for graphic designers.             Art Nouveau Typographic Ornaments1 review Dan X. Solo Peter Smith Pub Inc, 1983 A fabulous resource for black and white ornaments This book contains hundreds of black and white images, borders, ornaments, rules, corners and other graphics. The pages are printed on both sides, it is necessary to make a xerox copy of a page before attempting to scan, or ghost-through will occur. The copyright notice is somewhat confusing, it appears to be a boiler-plate for use in books containing alphabets and states that use is free ...             The Gutenberg galaxy: The making of typographic man13 reviews Marshall McLuhan The New American Library of Canada, 1969 The orality/literacy debate and McLuhan's media theory This book expands on the views of McLuhan's teacher Harold Innis, who distingusihed oral and written cultures. The book argues that oral cultures are synaesthetic and work with synthetic logic, while cultures of writing push the mind toward singulation of senses, logic and 'perspective'. McLuhan 'glosses' through a wide range of scattered historical pieces of information to show how oral, ...             Typographics 32 reviews Roger Walton HarperCollins Design International, 2000 One of the Best Type Books If you are a graphic designer and wake up one day thinking:"Well, I feel like spending $45 bucks today", you should seriously consider this. Edited by Roger Walton, this beautiful publication comes to rescue us from the sameness and the boring "commercial type book" type of thing. Beautifuly designed by Gabriella Le Grazie, Stefan Kraus and Iain Cadby, there's nothing else to do, but to put ...             History of Printing from Its Beginnings to 1930: The Subject Catalogue of the American Type Founders Company ...1 review Periodicals Service Co, 1980 Wonderful catalog of a priceless book arts collection. A quintessential bibliographical reference work for students of printing and typography. This book reproduces the subject card catalog of the company library of the American Type Founders; over 2700 pages containg about 16,000 items. This collection is now owned by Columbia University. It contains thousands of subject headings and is truly remarkable.             Typographics 1: The Art of Typography from Digital to Dyeline3 reviews Writers Digest Books, 1995 EXCELLENT / / / really inspiring, you will find any different styles of design and typography, the second book isnt as good, but i would definitely reccomend this one..             Typographics 2 Cybertype: Zines + Screens (Typographics)3 reviews Roger Walton Hearst Books, 1998 Inspiration! This book is great inspiration for any graphic designer. If I'm struggling for an idea, this is my muse. The art found in this book is primarily from page design (magazines, books) with very little web design. This is not a negative comment, just don't expect to see much web design. The medium is irrelevant; it's just great design.             Grids for the Internet & Other Digital Media1 review Veruschka Götz AVA Publishing, 2002 Fascinating, timely and practical too Another superb book by Götz. Although the title is a tad dry and does not suggest that the book will appeal to the same wide audience as Type for the Internet, in fact `Grids' is just as fascinating and timely. Gotz describes how websites (and other browser-read creations) should be laid out for maximum effectiveness. Her analysis is practical and how-to, leading from the apparently obvious ...             The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice1 review Robin Williams Peachpit Press, 2004 Excellent book! I used this book for my college graphic design class and it helped me tremendously! It's easy to read and follow along. Great tips tips to improving any kind of print. I love it!             Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele Gestaltung13 reviews Josef Muller-Brockmann Arthur Niggli, 2001 Excellent detailed book. Absolutely satisfied. In my opinion this is the best book about grids. It intoduces into history, gives some typographic base knowledge, detailed information about grids, layouts and composiotion. This book would be interesting for experienced graphic designers as well as for newbies. I highly recommend this book. Thanks.             The Macintosh Font Book: Typographic Tips, Techniques and Resources1 review Erfert Fenton Peachpit Press Publications,U.S., 1991 The Macintosh Font Book This book fills in all the blanks for those of us without extensive Mac training. It covers so many questions about font loading,management and vocabulary. I have so many times wondered how to get this sort of information without working side by side, day in and out with an expert. Now I know.             The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice215 reviews Robin Williams Pearson Education, 1994 great intro to designTurned the Turned the light on for me as to why my fliers, brochures and business cards were so hard to really "get." Because I'm a visual artist I hadn't thot I needed any help. How wrong I was! This book is great for beginners, it's short and sweet, and great bathroom reading!             Munster: The way it was1 review Ian Hawkins Robinson Typographics, 1984 Not Really Out of Print--There is an Updated Version You can find the 'grandson' of this book available under a new name: Munster: Before and After. What follows is my review of the updated version. However, I have read both and they are quite similar. Both are outstanding. The target was Munster, an ancient walled city on the edge of Germany that up until that day had seen comparatively little damage from Allied bombs. But Munster was also a ...             Logotypes & Letterforms: Handlettered Logotypes and Typographic Considerations1 review Doyald Young Design Pr, 1993 A Humble Master of lettering This book is probably one of the finest examples of logo and letterhead creation done by highly talented, top-end, design studios. Doyald young is able to share and teach through his accumulated works after a life-time of fruitful and disciplined effort. He has truly reached a pinnacle of artisitic striving, and should be treated as a national treasure! I have not purchased this book, but have ...             Typographic Design: Form and Communication7 reviews Rob Carter, Ben Day, ... Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993 One of the best I have been a graphic designer for over 20 years. I teach typography at the university level. I learned typography the old-fashioned way: by specifying, setting, and manipulating it by hand. From that background I can confidently state that THE best way to truly understand how type works is through understanding the forms of letters, words, and groups of words. Students trying to understand ...             Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop24 reviews Timothy Samara Rockport Publishers, 2005 Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop This book excellent for graphic designers and anyone who needs to create professional appealing graphic layouts. As an interior designer, I purchased this book to help me design my portfolio and will continue to resource it for project presentation layouts. The visual breakdowns are inspirational; and the text, informative.             The Elements of Typographic Style87 reviews Robert Bringhurst Hartley & Marks, 1996 Excellent book This is a book that goes beyond the boundaries of typography. It is a must have in any designer's library.             Typographic Design9 reviews Robert A. Carter John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2004 Great Book The book is great and if you're into graphic design or even want to understand type.If you're a teacher there are many creative exercises you can get out of this book too that students should enjoy.              search for books american, beginnings, breaking, catalogue, columbia, communication, communications, considerations, contemporary, cybertype, designer, elements, emotional, founders, gestaltung, gutenberg, handlettered, internet, letterforms, logotypes, macintosh, non-designer, ornaments, principles, resources, sourcebook, techniques, typographic, typographics, typography books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Basic Microphones (Music Technology Series) (Music Technology Series) we recommend great intro to designTurned the leave a comment home  impressum - about us