Font. The SourceBook

by Monem, Nadine

• ISBN13: 9781906155414
• ISBN10: 1906155410
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-02
• Publisher: Black Dog Pub Ltd

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 10
The Development of Writing	p. 14
Penguyin Books - Great Ideas	p. 26
Printing and Process	p. 42
Type Through a Colander	p. 54
Letters	p. 58
Old Forms, New Ideas: Typographic Revivial and the Uses of History	p. 74
Public Type	p. 80
A Conversation with Domenic Lippa	p. 88
Move to the Modern	p. 92
Visual Essay	p. 104
Mechanisation	p. 114
Great Women Typographers: Where are They? Teal Triggs asks Sibylle Hagmann	p. 128
Art and Style	p. 136
Family Planning or How Type Families Work	p. 156
The Digital Age	p. 164
A conversation with Danny, Marieke and Erwin	p. 184
Visual Essay	p. 190
First Things First	p. 200
The Mechanics of Type	p. 206
Font Resource	p. 212
Notes	p. 314
Index	p. 316
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