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Principes élémentaires de la typographie : une histoire des styles
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ISBN: 9782490077656 2490077651 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paris : B42,

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Décrit comme « la Bible du typographe » par le dessinateur de caractères allemand Hermann Zapf et traduit dans plus de dix langues dans le monde, "Principes élémentaires de la typographie" est considéré comme un ouvrage de référence par les designers, typographes et spécialistes de l'objet imprimé. Récit vivant et critique des développements de la typographie au fil des siècles, ce livre revient sur les principes fondamentaux qui encadrent cette discipline et offre des clés permettant à chacun de composer un texte de manière optimale et d'en faciliter la lecture. Dans ce livre, Robert Bringhurst établit une histoire de la typographie et analyse l'expansion progressive du rôle de la composition typographique, dont le champ d'action s'étend désormais bien au-delà de l'objet imprimé. Suite à l'apparition de nouvelles disciplines et medium au cours du XXe siècle, l'auteur décrit l'évolution et l'adaptation des règles typographiques appliquées à ces nouveaux supports que sont les affiches, flyers ou encore les sites Internet. Cet ouvrage majeur permet d'explorer des notions fondamentales à tout travail typographique et retrace l'histoire de plusieurs caractères (Garamond, Bodoni, Didot, Caslon, Futura, etc.) ayant marqué la discipline. À travers de nombreux exemples issus de domaines aussi variés que la musique, l'histoire de l'art, l'esthétique ou les mathématiques, l'auteur démontre en quoi le style typographique constitue une notion décisive pour qui souhaite créer une mise en pages adaptée, bien pensée et qui retiendra l'attention du lecteur. Rassemblés, ces savoirs et connaissances techniques permettent de décomposer et de comprendre la structure de quelque texte que ce soit, imprimé ou non.


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Mid-Century type : typography, graphics, designers
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ISBN: 9781858947075 1858947073 Year: 2023 Publisher: London Merrell

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"Mid-Century Type is a fascinating visual exploration of how, during the middle decades of the last century, the typographer became an independent, influential contributor to a fast-developing technological world of communications. The years after the Second World War were a time of great economic, social, and cultural change as consumerism erupted across industrialized countries, fuelled by the growth of mass communication. The same period was also one of exceptional creativity, including in the fields of typography and graphic design. During the war, governments came to appreciate the skill of designers in communicating public information effectively. Once the conflict was over, designers were recognized for the first time as having an essential role to play in the rebuilding of economies, infrastructure, and public morale. The typographer, however, was still something of a 'Cinderella': type was crucial to communication in almost any medium, yet typography remained a vague and largely unacknowledged profession. This perception changed dramatically between 1945 and 1965. The range of media expanded, and the influence of time-based media such as television and film was profound, providing information 'as it happens' and transforming the turning of a page into the equivalent of the film editor's cut. 'Speed' was the elixir of growth and prosperity. The specific needs of highway and airport signage were recognized as requiring the expertise of a typographer. Phototypesetting and offset lithographic printing coalesced to provide a full-color reproduction, which in turn vastly increased the sale of all printed material, but especially books and magazines. All of this drew typographers into what became established as specialist fields of printed and screen media. Finally, the cultural value of the typographer's work could be equated with that of the artist, poet, author, and film director." --Publisher marketing.


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Telling the From Jikji to Gutenberg story
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Year: 2023 Publisher: Cheongju City, Chungcheonbuk-do, Republic of Korea UNESCO International Centre for Documentary Heritage

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From ASCII art to Comic Sans : typography and popular culture in the digital age
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ISBN: 9780262375214 9780262375207 0262375206 0262375214 0262546140 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press,

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"Through a close examination of the material and visual culture found online, Wagner offers a contextualizing historiography that takes the reader from the art of ASCII to hatred of Comic Sans. By combining design history, visual, and material culture, this book offers a new glimpse into the role of letter form and typographical structure in the history of digital culture"--


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Space as language
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ISBN: 9781009265430 1009265431 100926544X 9781009265447 1009265466 1009265474 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This Element examines the function and significance of typographic space. It considers in turn the space within letters, the space between letters, the space between lines, and the margin space surrounding the text-block, to develop the hypothesis that viewed collectively these constitute as a 'metalanguage' complementary to the text.

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