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Typography today exists in conflict with classical font design and contemporary influences such as analogue distortion, screen applications, street culture, deconstruction, hand lettering and illustrative letter forms. "Type one" not only presents an overview of the diversity in current typography, but also reveals where conventions have become established and where valid(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
November 2005, Berlin
Type-one : discipline and progress in typography
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Typography today exists in conflict with classical font design and contemporary influences such as analogue distortion, screen applications, street culture, deconstruction, hand lettering and illustrative letter forms. "Type one" not only presents an overview of the diversity in current typography, but also reveals where conventions have become established and where valid new approaches exist. In addition to a selection of typefaces and their applications, the book features articles by and interviews with international experts such as Jean François Rappot, House industries’ Andy Cruz and Ken Barber, Norm and Professor Tanja Diezmann. Topics range from the democratization of the font creation process by the computer to how much existing approaches are based on the same fonts. These texts are edited and commented by Silja Bilz, former project and product manager for Corporate type at the renowned Linotype library. While "Type one" provides practical context and examples, it also investigates the experimental and inspirational side of font design. This combination makes the book a resource for anyone seeking an up to date exploration and understanding of typography.
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Barcelona grafica
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In producing this book, America Sanchez has photographed and arranged some 1,825 examples of Barcelona urban graphic art: shop signs, door numbers, vignettes, allegories, emblems and pictograms which illustrate the uses of the city and make them legible. In so doing, Sanchez has rescued from anonymity a multitudinous cast of spontaneous graphic artists: sign-writers,(...)
Barcelona grafica
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In producing this book, America Sanchez has photographed and arranged some 1,825 examples of Barcelona urban graphic art: shop signs, door numbers, vignettes, allegories, emblems and pictograms which illustrate the uses of the city and make them legible. In so doing, Sanchez has rescued from anonymity a multitudinous cast of spontaneous graphic artists: sign-writers, painters, engravers, carvers, smiths, stained-glass workers. With this, he has inaugurated a new field of study of everyday life, the main themes of which Norberto Chaves discusses in his introductory remarks to the work. A superficial gaze will find nothing here but a collection of curiosities, products of popular inventiveness. The more attentive gaze, however, will discover a genuine graphic treasure. With this book, America Sanchez makes a cultural contribution as important, if not more so, as his estimable work as a graphic designer. As a result, Barcelona can see itself in the mirror of its anonymous graphic art and thereby recoup another aspect of its enormously rich heritage. There are almost two thousand images, representing all the barrios of Barcelona, and classified in some 150 variations on seventeen major themes: the human figure, flora, fauna, figurative and abstract iconography, shields, plaques, tiles, murals, signs, captions, monograms, numbers, ornaments, ironwork. Two hundred and thirty pages and four gatefolds, arbitrarily arranged, the aim of which is to awaken the curiosity of, and to surprise, the "pedestrian". The author himself writes that: "The book is open to a wide range of readings, as a volume of photos, a graphic document of the city's heritage, or as a reference manual of graphic solutions for designers, typographers, architects and interior designers. It is also a meditation on the industrial, commercial and institutional fabric of different eras of the city". This book was originally published in 2001. The new edition includes a red fabric-covered slip-case.
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"U" (Upper & lower case) was a defining voice in world graphic design between 1973 and 1999. It was in some ways a lifestyle magazine for the design community, providing a fascinating intersection of popular culture and graphic design in the last quarter of the 20th century. The list of editorial contributors to "U" is long, many prominent designers worked on designing(...)
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February 2005, West New York
U : influencing design & typography
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"U" (Upper & lower case) was a defining voice in world graphic design between 1973 and 1999. It was in some ways a lifestyle magazine for the design community, providing a fascinating intersection of popular culture and graphic design in the last quarter of the 20th century. The list of editorial contributors to "U" is long, many prominent designers worked on designing entire issues. Their best work is showcased in this book through the reproduction of selected covers, stories, and illustrations from the approximately 100 quarterly issues that were published. This book also contains four informal but in-depth chapters on the background, context, use of design and typography, and people involved in making "U" happen over the years.
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Chaumont 2005
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En 2005, la 16è édition du Festival international de l’affiche et des arts graphiques de Chaumont (France) présente un large panoramique du travail du maître moderniste A.M. Cassandre, les créations récentes, entre imprimé et écran, du graphiste français Christophe Jacquet dit Toffe et invite l'école néerlandaise Werplaats Typografie. Sur les 1800 nouvelles affiches(...)
Chaumont 2005
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En 2005, la 16è édition du Festival international de l’affiche et des arts graphiques de Chaumont (France) présente un large panoramique du travail du maître moderniste A.M. Cassandre, les créations récentes, entre imprimé et écran, du graphiste français Christophe Jacquet dit Toffe et invite l'école néerlandaise Werplaats Typografie. Sur les 1800 nouvelles affiches reçues pour le Concours International qui viennent enrichir le fonds contemporain, 100 affiches ont été sélectionnées et sont présentées dans ce catalogue. Le Festival propose également une relecture critique du fonds historique d’affiches Dutailly par le jeune amstellodamois Harmen Liemburg. Les “A-ce-qu’on-dit”, locutions ordinaires de David Poullard envahissent et viennent questionner l’espace public.
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In the 1970s, mass-produced, cheaply printed science-fiction novels were thriving. The paper was rough, the titles outrageous, and the cover art astounding. Over the course of the decade, a stable of talented painters, comic-book artists, and designers produced thousands of the most eye-catching book covers to ever grace bookstore shelves (or spinner racks). Curiously,(...)
Worlds beyond time: Sci-Fi art of the 1970s
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In the 1970s, mass-produced, cheaply printed science-fiction novels were thriving. The paper was rough, the titles outrageous, and the cover art astounding. Over the course of the decade, a stable of talented painters, comic-book artists, and designers produced thousands of the most eye-catching book covers to ever grace bookstore shelves (or spinner racks). Curiously, the pieces commissioned for these covers often had very little to do with the contents of the books they were selling, but by leaning heavily on psychedelic imagery, far-out landscapes, and trippy surrealism, the art was able to satisfy the same space race–fueled appetite for the big ideas and brave new worlds that sci-fi writers were boldly pushing forward. In Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s, Adam Rowe—who has been curating, championing, and resurrecting the best and most obscure art that 1970s sci-fi has to offer on his blog 70s Sci-Fi Art—introduces readers to the biggest names in the genre, including Chris Foss, Peter Elson, Tim White, Jack.
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The Folly Cove Designers (officially 1941-1969) was a grassroots collective of predominantly women block printers founded by Caldecott Award-winner and beloved children's book author/illustrator Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios (of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel fame). This trailblazing Gloucester, MA-based group produced more than three hundred distinct designs,(...)
Trailblazing women printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove designers
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The Folly Cove Designers (officially 1941-1969) was a grassroots collective of predominantly women block printers founded by Caldecott Award-winner and beloved children's book author/illustrator Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios (of Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel fame). This trailblazing Gloucester, MA-based group produced more than three hundred distinct designs, which they block printed on fabric. The designs conveyed personal and regional narratives through the use of shared design principles and the compelling language of pattern. The group was propelled to international fame through commercial contracts with major retailers (F. Schumacher, Lord & Taylor, etc.), articles in leading periodicals such as Life, and participation in seminal fine craft exhibitions. Their work continues to inspire contemporary printmakers around the globe, particularly women printmakers. As the first comprehensive history of the Folly Cove Designers, ''Trailblazing women printmakers'' documents and celebrates the group's tremendous success and the incredible artistry of its members. With more than 250 black-and-white and color photographs, author Elena M. Sarni explores the Folly Cove Designers' history, work, and group dynamics.
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Emigre no. 64 : rant
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For almost twenty years, and over sixty issues, Émigré has been a sourcebook of ideas, fonts, images, work, products, and even music for an entire generation of designers. But this visual stimulation may have come at a price: are today’s young designers writing passionately enough about what they do? Acting as agent provocateur in Rant, Émigré invites designers, teachers,(...)
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January 2003, Sacramento
Emigre no. 64 : rant
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For almost twenty years, and over sixty issues, Émigré has been a sourcebook of ideas, fonts, images, work, products, and even music for an entire generation of designers. But this visual stimulation may have come at a price: are today’s young designers writing passionately enough about what they do? Acting as agent provocateur in Rant, Émigré invites designers, teachers, and critics including Jeffery Keedy, Rick Valicenti, Shawn Wolfe, Kenneth FitzGerald, Denise Gonzales Crisp, Andrew Blauvelt, and Elliott Earls to challenge today’s young designers to develop a critical attitude toward their own work and the design scene in general. Rant also signals a transition in the format of Émigré, away from its previous incarnation as a magazine/font catalog toward a series of "pocketbooks’ focusing on critical writing about the state of graphic design.
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Organized around themes such as courtship, commerce, travel, sports, and city life, "The games we played" brings together over one hundred eye-catching examples of America's rare and popular board games.
The games we played : the golden age of board and tables games
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Organized around themes such as courtship, commerce, travel, sports, and city life, "The games we played" brings together over one hundred eye-catching examples of America's rare and popular board games.
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With a lively text that entwines graphic and aviation history, this book traces the evolution of these icons of universal design from the kitschy pamphlets created for Pan-Am's Flying Clipper in the 1930s to the simple, plasticized pictograms used on today's jumbo jets. Removed from their seatbacks and gathered together here for the first time, the cards of "Design for(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
April 2003, New York
Design for impact : fifty years of airline safety cards
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With a lively text that entwines graphic and aviation history, this book traces the evolution of these icons of universal design from the kitschy pamphlets created for Pan-Am's Flying Clipper in the 1930s to the simple, plasticized pictograms used on today's jumbo jets. Removed from their seatbacks and gathered together here for the first time, the cards of "Design for impact" offer a humorous primer on a most basic - and urgent - form of visual communication.
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In the twenty-first century, the widespread integration of computer technologies has brought text-based information into many facets of everyday life. This has caused an ever-growing interest in typography across many fields of visual communication, where text and letterform play a central role in disseminating social trends and reflecting the spirit of the times.(...)
Graphic Design and Typography
March 2002, London
Arabic typography : a comprehensive sourcebook
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In the twenty-first century, the widespread integration of computer technologies has brought text-based information into many facets of everyday life. This has caused an ever-growing interest in typography across many fields of visual communication, where text and letterform play a central role in disseminating social trends and reflecting the spirit of the times. "Arabic Typography" takes the reader through a comprehensive study of Arabic letterforms, starting with a concise historical overview of their development and styles, and proceeding to the latest design and technological advances. It attempts to establish the foundations for Arabic type-design by drawing lessons from past practices and aesthetic conventions, in order to retain the enduring traits that are of relevance for improvement and innovation in future type-design creations. Going beyond the historical facts to discuss current design issues pertaining to the creation and production of letterforms, it presents Arabic typographic design as an essential communication tool that should marry functionality and legibility to aesthetic delight.
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