Typographic Design

Form and Communication

Rob Carter, Ben Day, Philip Meggs

310 pages, parution le 15/04/2003 (3^eme édition)

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Résumé

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.

L'auteur - Rob Carter

Rob Carter is professor of typography and graphic design at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has received numerous awards for his work from organizations such as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York Type Directors Club, New York Art Directors Club, Society of Typographic Arts, Creativity, and Print regional annual. He is the author of American Typography Today, the five-volume Working with Type series, and Digital Color and Type. He is also the co-author, with Philip Meggs, of Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces.

L'auteur - Ben Day

Ben Day is a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has also taught at Boston University and been a Visiting Designer at the University of Connecticut. His many exhibitions include the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the New York Type Directors Club, and the New York Sculpture Centre. The Boston Society of Printers awarded him a teaching fellowship. He has served as a consultant to Bostonia magazine, NASA, and the Fogg Museum, and art directed Handel and Haydn magazine. He has been selected for Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

L'auteur - Philip Meggs

Philip Meggs is a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, a contributing editor of Print magazine, and a visiting faculty member at Syracuse University and the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. He is the author of Type and Image and A History of Graphic Design, co-author of Typographic Specimens, and co-editor of Texts on Type and Revival of the Fittest: Digital Versions of Classic Typefaces. Meggs holds an honorary doctorate from the Massachusetts College of Art and has been inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame.

Sommaire

The Evolution of Typography
The Anatomy of Typography
Syntax and Communication
Legibility
Typographic Technology
Typographic Design Education
Case Studies in Typographic Design
Type Specimens
Glossary
Appendix A: Copyfitting
Appendix B: Character Count Table for Text-type Specimens
Appendix C: Traditional Working Methods in Typographic Design
Appendix D: Proofreader's Marks
A Chronology of Typeface Designs

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Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Rob Carter, Ben Day, Philip Meggs
Parution	15/04/2003
Édition	3^eme édition
Nb. de pages	310
Format	21,5 x 27,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1015g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780471383413
ISBN13	978-0-471383-41-3