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 |