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Encyclopaedia of typefaces
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ISBN: 9781844036707 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Cassell


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Fontbook: digital typeface compendium
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ISBN: 9783930023042 3930023040 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berlin FontShop International

Made with Fontfont: type for independent minds
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ISBN: 9789063691295 9063691297 Year: 2006 Publisher: Amsterdam BIS

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Made with FontFont commemorates the fifteen-year anniversary of the groundbreaking digital type foundry FontShop International. Edited by FSI co-founder Erik Spiekermann and Dutch writer-designer Jan Middendorp, the colorful compendium is actually an anthology of type specimens and essays closely and creatively examining how FontFont operates. Each page is truly a visual treat -- designed by typography designers after all, testifying to this foundry's influence on the trends of type and typography. It's truly a book created by "designers for designers.The 351 pages are divided into five chapters revealing the essence of and its legacy: Thinking FontFont, Talking FontFont, Making FontFont, Showing FontFont, Made with FontFont. These heavily illustrated sections demonstrate the dynamic range of the FontFont typefaces, which have been used for everything from instructions for wearing an Indian sari to the packaging for Viagra.


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Letterfontein (over drukletters)
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ISBN: 9789075084191 Year: 2010 Publisher: Roermond Fontana


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The encyclopaedia of type faces
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ISBN: 071371347X Year: 1983 Publisher: Poole Blandford Press

Font : the sourcebook
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ISBN: 9781906155414 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Black Dog Publishing

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*Font. The Sourcebook is designed to be a resource for those interested in the story of type, that is, the story of visual communication across different moments in time and different aesthetic periods. The changing shape of letterforms is explored against the backdrop of changing technologies, social mores and artistic movements, culiminating in a complete look at the ever-evolving ways that humans have created meaning through the written word.*

The first part of *Font. The Sourcebook* gives a thorough and considered history of the public word, with its roots in Egyptian hieroglyphs and Greek scrolls, to the advent of the codex format still in use today. This first section goes on to describe the mechanics of early printing, and how those original practices were revolutionised by key inventions such as moveable type, the cast-iron press and the advent of steam power. With the proliferation of casting and printing methods came a greater variety of typeface designs, paving the way for influences as wide-ranging as Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, Constructivism and Futurism, right up until the close of the twentieth century and the dawn of the digital age. *Font. The Sourcebook* goes on to describe how modern typography has been redefined by developments in information technology, foregrounding some of the most exciting and innovative work being undertaken in contemporary practice.

This comprehensive account of the story of type is periodically interrupted by comment and analysis by some of the world's leading typographers, critics, graphic designers and theoreticians, taking up themes current in contemporary practice. Contributors include Penguin's David Pearson, Chairman of the Type Directors Club Alex W White, Will Hill, Pentagram's Domenic Lippa, Ed Fella, Experimental Jetset, Sam Winston, Teal Triggs, Sybille Hagmann and Peter Bil'ak.

The second part of *Font. The Sourcebook* is a reference resource for designers, artists and anyone with a specific interest in letterforms. 50 of the most innovative and inspiring fonts in use today are profiled in these pages, alongside a short history of their origin, their inspiration and the designer who brought them to life. Each typeface entry is illustrated with an extensive library and details of distinctive design features particular to the font depicted.

*Font. The Sourcebook* is a comprehensive guide to visual communication, unpacking the historical, mechanical and aesthetic events that drove its evolution, starting from the earliest marks made for the purpose of communication to arrive at the most cutting edge digital typography emerging today.


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Vier Sätze : 107 biographische Zeichnungen
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ISBN: 9783775746038 377574603X Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin Hatje Cantz Verlag

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In 1958 at the Werkkunstschule in Offenbach, Franz Erhard Walther devised a typographical font without any diagonals. In this artist's book he uses so-called work sets to form a letter on each page, facing a scene from his life between 1954 to 1973 on the opposite pagean encounter with Reiner Ruthenbeck and Jörg Immendorff, for example, or his first show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Paging through, four sequential work sets make an appearance, including The body draws and Sculptural memory: on the left side, a hand-drawn letter in a mutable yellow, and on the right, a drawing of a recollection originating in his photographic memory. This book, conceived and designed by the artist himself, is itself a work of art. "All throughout my life I was fascinated by this idea: that a work could have a plot. With the consequence that the plot itself takes on the character of a work of art." Franz Erhard Walther, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin.

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