Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts – from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond – play in contemporary graphic design.Written and compiled by the world’s leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed texts that will entertain, edify and inspire a new generation of students and practitioners to appreciate that the past contains typographic riches for the future.
ISBN: | 9780500288184 |
Publication date: | 16th February 2009 |
Author: | Steven Heller, Gail Anderson |
Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 192 pages |
Genres: |
Typography and lettering |