Typography Books

Chinese Pictograms: The Pictographic Evolution & Graphic Creation of Hanzi

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Offering a concise introduction of the invention and development of Chinese characters the book teases out the glyphic characteristics and rules for creating different calligraphic styles; visualises the glyphic evolution of 132 commonly used characters and analyses a selection of over 60 outstanding type designs of renowned designers. It will enable designers to maximise the expression value of Chinese characters in visuals Recent years have witnessed a Chinese character design boom, with influential activities popping up one after another across Asia. Institutions such as The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Just Fonts, 3type, Mojijuku have launched courses for Chinese character design. Meanwhile, various exhibitions, lectures, seminars, and competitions, online or offline, are popular with young designers The innovative use of Chinese characters as main visual elements in design, such as brand identity, logos, books, and posters, enjoys growing trend globally. On the other hand, the cultural uniqueness of Chinese characters demands a sound understanding of its history from designers.

The Designer's Dictionary of Type

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The Designer's Dictionary of Type follows in the footsteps of The Designer's Dictionary of Colour, providing a vivid and highly accessible look at an even more important graphic design ingredient: typography From classic fonts like Garamond and Helvetica, to modern-day digital fonts like OCR-A and Keedy Sans, author and designer Sean Adams demystifies 48 major typefaces, describing their history, stylistic traits, and common application Provides eye-catching illustrated examples, showcasing the beauty and expressiveness of typography, as employed by the world's greatest designers Organised by serif, sans-serif, script, display, and digital typefaces, this book will be a vital guide for designers, teachers, or students looking to gain a foundational understanding of the art, practice, and history of typography

The Typefaces

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Inspired by letterpress printing and childlike observations, The Typefaces are simply faces in type Initially self-published by creative director and graphic designer Scott Lambert in 2015, the book has gone on to win several global design awards with its wit and charm. While it will still feature the letters 'A' to 'Z' in different type - each paired with a fun rhyme about the hidden face in the negative space, the 2019 edition will also consist of new updates to the content Besides offering young readers a unique and compelling means to learn the alphabet, the book also hopes to encourage people to look at familiar things in different ways and elicit delight in new discoveries In Scott's own words, The Typefaces is for the designer in every child, and the child in every designer

Archigraphy: Lettering on Buildings

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Lettering on buildings and in the public realm affects our environment. The core of this manual is formed by archigraphy projects that represent a strategy of how architecture can be enriched by graphic elements The structural, material or visual methods can be used as inspiration for the reader's own designs A compilation of lettering techniques, advice on project management, make this manual a tool for architects and graphic designers alike

Typojis: Some New Characters / A Few More Glyphs

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Today's punctuation marks essentially go back to Aldus Manutius, who was considered the "king of printers" in the 15th century. After 500 years it is time for some new characters Give your written communication more clarity. Prevent misunderstandings by making undertones and overtones sound with new punctuation marks In a global world, where written communication through WhatsApp and other similar applications has long since overtaken oral communication, these new signs of misinterpretation of your texts are waging war - and opening up new worlds to your words How much richer and clearer will written communication be if, thanks to Walter Bohatsch, 30 more punctuation marks can now load these and other sentences with new meanings? And how helpless will a winking smiley from three punctuation marks appear to us if we can give our statements an ironic touch or give authority with a single elegant sign...

Designing Type, Second Edition

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Designing Type is a comprehensive guide to type design is hailed as a ‘must-have’ for typographers, graphic designers and students and has been fully refreshed and updated with the introduction of more contemporary typefaces, more explanatory diagrams and a closer connection between text and corresponding image The new edition of Designing Type also features more in-depth discussion of the processes behind developing typefaces and the basic issues that need to be taken into consideration such as visual principles and letter construction, optical compensation and legibility, and the relationships between letters and shapes in a font. This is a valuable reference for both experienced professionals and novice designers

Type and Color: How to Design and Use Multicolored Typefaces

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To create his award-winning multicoloured typefaces, Mark van Wageningen first returned to the past for his research: wood-type printing. His subsequent form and colour studies led to a series of popular digital typefaces and awards for typographic excellence from the Type Directors Club In Type and Color, the pioneering typographic designer provides all the tools you will need to participate in the hottest typography trend: designing with multicoloured fonts. This manual, aimed at a broad spectrum of graphic design professionals, offers analyses of chromatic type specimens, instructions for multilayer type design, and applications across a range of print and digital media From display fonts to running text, discover how colour can give words expressive new possibilities