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Specimens of 38 of the finest type families in the world are brought together in Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces, making it an invaluable reference tool for graphic designers, editors, art directors, production managers, desktop publishers, and students. Each type family is shown in display and text specimens with complete fonts including italic and bold variations; extended families such as Futura and Univers include additional type weights and widths. Each type family's section opens with a full-page experimental design, created by an outstanding graphic designer to demonstrate its potential. The specimens are accompanied by a concise discussion of each type family's origins, charactertistics, and usage. Typographic specimens provide an opportunity to study typefaces, to select and plan typography, and to increase one's knowledge of letterforms. Drawing and tracing specimens remain excellent ways to understand type and create logos and other typographic designs. Study of specimens aids in the selection of fonts to be purchased for the font library. Typographic specimens introduce unfamiliar typefaces in printed form and aid in the development of connoisseurship. Comparative analysis of similar faces in printed form becomes possible. Over one hundred prominent designers and design educators were sent a ballot listing all major typefaces and were asked to vote for the type families that best fulfilled their personal criteria for typographic excellence. The typefaces contained in this book represent the results of this poll, providing a compendium of excellent typefaces that have stood the test of time. Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces will provide information, inspiration, and a keener knowledge of typography. Akzidenz-Grotesk American Typewriter Baskerville Bembo Bodoni Bookman Caledonia Caslon Centaur Century Schoolbook Cheltenham Clarendon Didot Folio Franklin Gothic Frutiger Futura Galliard Gill Sans Garamond Goudy Old Style Helvetica Janson Kabel News Gothic Optima Palatino Perpetua Plantin Sabon Serifa Stone Sans Stone Serif Stymie Times New Roman Trump Mediaeval Univers Zapf Book
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Get Face to Face With the Great Ones.......2005-06-29
Goes well with Revival of the Fittest also edited by Meggs. This sample book is different in that the faces shown were chosen by other designers. The faces seen in this book are the ones that you will be using 95% of the time. It is always good to study the classic faces in detail to get a better sense of their character and see the posibilities in their shapes.
a magnificent type book.......2000-07-13
This book presents beautiful specimens of the best typefamilies. Each section (Bodoni, Stone, Gill Sans, Garamond, etc.) opens with an experimental composition by a renowned grapphic designers such as Paula Scher, Louise Fili, Paul Rand, and Wolfgang Weingart. The authors' concise write-up on each typefamily provides the history and discusses its character and usage.
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- Extremely useful resource
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Emotional Digital: A Sourcebook of Contemporary Typographics
Sybille Schlaich
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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Here is a selection of today's most beautiful and exciting typefaces, introduced by the designers and publishers themselves. From electro-type pioneers Emigre to renegades [T-26] in the USA, from the experimentation of Holland's LettError to Typomatic in London, there is a new-media world of typographic possibilities in Emotional Digital. A wide range of fonts devised by international graphic design companies is stylishly presented in full-color spreads. Each short profile includes information on where and when the company originated, awards won, and particular themes and characteristics of their work. Some of the designers themselves, including Erik Spiekermann, Suzanna Licko, and Michael Horsham of Tomato, have contributed essays that examine how they have influenced the world of graphic design and advertising, and demonstrate the diverse opportunities for digital type design. Contemporary type designs are illustrated in the context of their first use, showing their importance to the message itself. Emotional Digital is an essential book for students and practitioners of typography and graphics and a great resource for anyone working in the field of design.
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Extremely useful resource.......2004-10-14
A beautiful book showcasing an index of typographics, icons and shapes galore. Complete inspiration for use of colour, type and shape. Essential to any serious graphic designer whether working online or offline. When you run out of ideas for colour palettes, type or compositions, this is the book to turn to.
excellent.......2000-04-04
This book displays great usage of typography, and typographic styles. An excellent book for graphic designers.
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Reproduced from a rare turn-of-the-century German catalog, these royalty-free frames, headpieces, tailpieces, title pages, spot art, scrollwork, and other ornamental motifs include bold Art Nouveau designs along with a wealth of detailed, evocative images of couples dancing, placid landscapes, sailing ships, fairies and elves, beautiful young ladies, floral borders, and much more.
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Disappointing.......2006-11-09
I was quite disappointed with this collection. There is a significant amount of mid 19th century work in here, which is difficult to use - if a use could be found for it.
One small problem.......2006-09-16
No cd-rom included. You'll have to scan whatever you want to use. Not a huge deal, however some of the ornaments in here are quite small and the resulting scans will be of somewhat low quality.
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Over 800 Art-Nouveau florals, swirls, women, animals, borders, scrolls, wreaths, spots and dingbats, copyright-free.
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A fabulous resource for black and white ornaments.......1999-02-01
This book contains hundreds of black and white images, borders, ornaments, rules, corners and other graphics. The pages are printed on both sides, it is necessary to make a xerox copy of a page before attempting to scan, or ghost-through will occur. The copyright notice is somewhat confusing, it appears to be a boiler-plate for use in books containing alphabets and states that use is free for no more than "six words composed from them", although there are no alphabets in this particular book. The images once scanned and digitally tweaked make wonderful graphics to create intricate selections from within your graphics application.
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As printing and design technologies have evolved over the past decade, so too have designers’ approaches to type design and typography. Today’s innovative designers have overturned established rules about type, turning letters into images and using typefaces in increasingly experimental ways. New Typographic Design covers a wide variety of applications from design for print--ranging from books, magazines, and brochures--to signage systems and screen-based typography, presenting the most current trends and directions of modern typography.
The book’s introduction discusses changing attitudes to innovation in typography through the 19th and 20th centuries, including the changing role of the designer, the question of legibility versus form, how type has become image, and the differing requirements for screen-based and print-based type. Four accompanying sections illustrate the key areas of typography today: type as form (how can existing type be handled in order to create an original design?), type as image (designs inspired by vernacular typography and noted for their hand-drawn aesthetic), type as experiment (the work of designers who push the boundaries of typographic recognition and legibility), and type in motion (how type can function in a three-dimensional or screen-based environment).
Authored by esteemed designer Roger Fawcett-Tang, this lavishly illustrated volume will provide a rich source of inspiration for both practicing designers and students.
Featured designers include:
Philippe Apeloig (France)
Ruedi Baur (France, Switzerland)
Oded Ezer (Israel)
Grandpeople (Norway)
Non-Format (England)
Sagmeister (U.S.A.)
Helmut Schmid (Germany)
Stiletto Design (U.S.A.)
Struktur Design (England)
3 Deep Design (Australia)
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Great typework.......2007-09-15
this book is full of amazing ideas and great type work, its really inspiring and awesome for helping in creative ideas and having somewhere to look for design ideas
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Rich sourcebook of intricate Victorian typefaces and printers' ornamentations — all copyright-free.
Customer Reviews:
A great book, but..........2006-03-30
The work in this book is awesome, but I was really let down by the paper and print quality of this book...all the work in the book is now copyright free and I was really hoping to use some of it in my work but because the work is so intricate, the printing quality makes much of it unusable. A big disapointment.
Ever wonder where the ideas for dingbat fonts came from?.......2000-04-17
This is it. This book is great for the Web designer looking for border and penwork examples. Beautiful examples of typographic patterns that mix and match. Want to make an elegant logo with a punch? Look at how just a few simple pen strokes can become elegant borders. These were the examples I needed at the right time.
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Hundreds of top-quality royalty-free ornaments, borders, corners, rules, headpieces, tailpieces, other motifs, reproduced from rare catalog valued at $500.00.
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ASIN: 0689808690 |
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Makes you proud to be a minority!.......2000-04-07
I loved this book, it made me proud to be an African American. It makes you realize that the things you see on TV and the news are covering up the talent and greatness of African Americans. There are poems by various poets, all of them are great!
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The Darker Brother
John Alton Barr
Manufacturer: Xlibris Corporation
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Darker Brother
James A. Warner
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Darker Brother
Bucklin Moon
Manufacturer: BANTAM BOOKS
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The darker brother (A Dutton visual book)
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Styne M. Slade
Manufacturer: Dutton
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ASIN: 0525495029 |
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Vintage Ethnic Fiction, Bantam Edition No. 737. Synopsis: "'Born the wrong color'... they said. But Ben Johnson was just another fellow who wanted to make good, learn a trade, marry his girl. His mother had brought him from Florida to New York because she thought he'd get the breaks up North, but he soon found out that, North or South, his skin looked just as dark to prejudiced eyes. Torn between a world that wouldn't give him a break and an underworld that had dragged his uncle and his best friend to their deaths, Ben digs in and fights - for happiness, for love, for life! Can he lick the terrible odds that face him?..."
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The darker brother /p
Bucklin Moon
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ASIN: B0007HQWJY |
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