Wired, Daniel Carter
What Janson's History of Art is to millions of art history students, Typography will be to today's--and tomorrow's--design students.
Book Description
An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History. The most detailed and comprehensive survey and history of typography and alphabets ever undertaken, packed with 2,000 illustrations.
Language Notes
Text: English, French, German
Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques throughout History FROM THE PUBLISHER
-- This book is the most detailed and comprehensive survey and history of typography and alphabets ever undertaken. It delineates an alphabetic history of our world civilization.-- Packed with information and 3,500 illustrations in full-color and black-&-white, it surveys the history of type design, type development and techniques, and chronicles the styles and fashions of letters on a page, from the origins of writing to the present day.-- It presents and reviews over 1,000 different typographers, designers, calligraphers, and artists as well as inventors, scholars, and theorists who have left their distinctive mark.
SYNOPSIS
This reference surveys the Western world's alphabetic culture and demonstrates the interaction between craft and technology, theory and practice, and functional and experimental ideas. Friedl (typography, College of Design in Offenbach am Main), and graphic designers Nicholaus Ott and Bernard Stein chronicle in detail the story of type design, development, fashions, and techniques starting with the present day and going back to the origins of the written word. They also describe the development of the tools from the hand-ax to the computer, and present about 700 typographers, type designers, calligraphers and artists, as well as schools, institutions, teachers, and theorists. The volume contains 2,000 color and b&w illustrations. Text is presented in English, French, and German. Oversize: 9.5x12". Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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