Evaluates the portfolios of twenty-four noted typographic designers and includes a detailed list of typographic resources

Product Description: In Arabic for Designers, Second Edition, Mourad Boutros has overhauled his critically acclaimed primer for non-Arabic speakers who wish to implement Arabic into various visual designs, ranging from corporate to artistic. The new edition features a completely new design and more pages, keeping pace with recent changes in the use of Arabic in multilingual visual marketing and design campaigns...read more

Includes 80 full-color pages addressing the important issue of color in typographic design. * New case studies showcase design for Web sites, CD-ROMs, and environmental graphics in addition to the existing case studies which detail examples of visual identification systems, book and magazine design, film and video text, and wayfinding graphics, along with outlines for analysis and solutions. * Revised technology section emphasizes current digital type technology. * Five new typefaces are included in the type specimens chapter. * New information is included on legibility and the Internet.

If you're searching for a font that goes beyond ho-hum, this book is for you. Today's computers provide a selection of fonts that serve reasonably well for workaday letters and publications, but have become utterly boring from overuse. If you want your project to attract the reader's attention, you need an original font.Indie Fonts provides a showcase collection of over 1600 diverse fonts from today's hottest digital type foundries and features the best work of these designers. Indie Fonts will help readers find some of the highest quality fonts available today.The type styles range from the best of Matthew Carter's classic designs to the latest irreverence of ingoFonts. Designers searching for unique typefaces will find what they are looking for, whether historical revivals or futuristic techno faces.

Product Description: Typography Papers 8 is a special issue devoted to modernity in British typography. Graphic design in Britain from World War II through the 1970s is reconsidered not simply as a matter of style, but as a visible form of social philosophy and an optimistic claim on enlightenment...read more

Product Description: This book offers a novel overview of typeface design, exploring the most beautiful and remarkable examples of font catalogs from the history of publishing, with a special emphasis on the period from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, when color catalogs were at their height...read more

Product Description: Finding the perfect font is tricky, and in an increasingly digital age, the options seem endless. This handy volume takes the mystery out of font selection by displaying the entire alphabet and numerals for 1000 unique typefaces, making it easy for designers—or anyone who works with type—to find the perfect face for any job...read more

Product Description: Le graphiste suisse Adrian Frutiger a considérablement marqué la création typographique internationale après 1950. Les séries de son caractère Univers et l OCR-B pouvant être lu par les ordinateurs et devenu un standard ISO, constituent des jalons essentiels dans l histoire de la typographie, de même que l écriture développée pour les aéroports de Paris et baptisée « Frutiger », un standard de la signalétique...read more

Product Description: Cool solutions for page titles, journaling and more!—How do you create an eye-catching page title?—How do you make your journaling look fantastic on your layout?—What cool things can you do with fonts, letter stickers, stamps and even your own handwriting?We'll show you how to do all this an more with designer tips for great typography from Creating Keepsakes magazine's editor-in-chief Brian Tippetts...read more

Product Description: A showcase of the year's best typographic work created for a breadth of uses including books, magazines, stationery, web graphics, and more.For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions...read more

Product Description: Probably no book designer of the twentieth century has had more written about him, his work, or his life than Bruce Rogers. He was, as his primary biographer Joseph Blumenthal observed, the ultimate "artificer of the book". His career as a working designer spanned six decades, but arguably his finest (and certainly his happiest) years were spent at Cambridge's Riverside Press where he took ovr from D...read more

Product Description: The Best of Newspaper Design: 29th Edition, the latest edition in Rockport’s highly respected series, presents the winning entries from the Society for News Design’s 2007 competition. Featuring work selected by a panel of judges from more than 14,000 international publication entries, this inspirational volume sets the bar for excellence in journalistic design...read more

Product Description: The journal whose very name promises more to come is back with a new issue certain to surprise and delight its dedicated legion of readers. Dot Dot Dotinvites a multidisciplinary group of contributors to write design pieces about the past, present, and future of visual culture...read more

Product Description: When was the last time a book on typography made you swoon? Just wait until you feast your eyes on Fraktur MonAmour, Berlin-based graphic designer Judith Schalansky's love letter to Blackletter fonts. Blackletter, also known asFraktur or Gothic type, was commonly used throughout Europe in the Middle Ages...read more