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Type Navigator

  • The Independent Foundries Handbook
  • Author: Jan Middendorp, TwoPoints.Net
  • Book category: Typography

  • The rapidly expanding online market for digital typefaces is exciting and diverse. With new fonts and type foundries launching on an almost daily basis, it has been difficult to keep track of notable developments—until now. [...]

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The rapidly expanding online market for digital typefaces is exciting and diverse. With new fonts and type foundries launching on an almost daily basis, it has been difficult to keep track of notable developments—until now. Type Navigator is a useful current handbook of modern fonts, independent foundries, and innovative type designers that provides an overview of today’s vast market. This comprehensive publication offers a valuable overview of international sources for quality fonts. In addition to concise profiles of type foundries and recent typefaces, Type Navigator features inspirational visual examples of fonts in use. A free digital collection of 100 typeface variations from 20 choice foundries accompanies the 320-page book.

In the past, there were only a few specialists worldwide who worked intensively with typography. Since the introduction of digital fonts and their dissemination via the internet, typography has gained a new significance. More and more designers are creating fonts for a variety of applications. Simultaneously, more and more of these designers are founding type foundries to sell their fonts themselves. Supply and demand in this area have been growing considerably for years. The expanding market for typography is exciting and diverse, but it has been difficult to keep track of notable developments––until now.

Type Navigator is a comprehensive handbook of the best independent sources for quality fonts. Structured and indexed according to practical criteria, it offers not only a valuable overview, but also possibilities for effective targeted searches. Whether a reader is in need of a specific type of font, is looking for fonts by a select designer, from a certain country, or even just wants to compare prices, Type Navigator will provide the necessary information.

In addition to abundant examples of fonts as well as concrete applications for typefaces and alphabets, this essential compendium features concise profiles of type foundries and designers. Select interviews with managers of type foundries show how their creative visions are influencing the characteristics of their font libraries.

Type Navigator is a valuable reference for agencies, designers, consultants, and customers who are looking for an overview of the modern typefaces currently available and the innovative people and companies behind them.

A free digital collection of 100 typeface variations from 20 choice foundries accompanies the 320-page book.

Type Navigator is edited by typography expert Jan Middendorp as well as the former Hort designer Martin Lorenz and his wife Lupi Asensio, who currently work together as TwoPoints.Net.

Editors: Jan Middendorp, TwoPoints.Net
Publisher: Gestalten
Year: 2011
Language: English
Format: 24 × 30 cm
Features: 320 pages, full color, hardcover, incl. CD-ROM with 100 typefaces from 20 foundries
ISBN 978-3-89955-377-2

Typography Sketchbooks

  • Author: Steven Heller, Talarico Lita
  • Book category: Typography

  • Typography is an obsession for most designers. It’s at the heart of all visual communication and is one of the purest forms of design, one that can always be improved and refined. Typography Sketchbooks gets [...]

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Typography is an obsession for most designers. It’s at the heart of all visual communication and is one of the purest forms of design, one that can always be improved and refined. Typography Sketchbooks gets into the minds of designers who create typefaces, word images and logos through their private sketchbooks. The result of these wide-ranging typographic musings provide fascinating insights into the expressive quality of letters and words. Aimed at all those who use type, whether by hand or on-screen, this pleasing compendium stresses the importance of good typography at a time when reading habits are changing and celebrates a craft that has endured for centuries.

Typography Sketchbooks includes work by Ivan Chermayeff, Carlos Segura, Milton Glaser, Maira Kalman, Bob Aufuldish, Matthew Carter, Javier Mariscal and Patrick Thomas, Erik Spiekermann, Peter Bilak and Enkeling, and Jean-Baptiste Levee.

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Edited by: Steven Heller, Talarico Lita
Language: English
Format: 18,5×34,4 cm
Features: 368 pages, 350 color illustrations, 186 b/w illustrations
ISBN: 9781616890377

Function, Restraint, and Subversion in Typography

  • Author: J. Namdev Hardisty
  • Book category: Graphic Design / Typography

  • The beauty of contemporary graphic design is that dozens of movements emerge and re-emerge from view. Yet, too often we are left with only the vague impression that something is going on. To [...]

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The beauty of contemporary graphic design is that dozens of movements emerge and re-emerge from view. Yet, too often we are left with only the vague impression that something is going on. To appreciate what that might be requires us to slow down, ignore superficial trends, and take a more in-depth look. This is the approach taken by Function, Restraint, and Subversion in Typography, a survey of minimalist and brutalist typography in contemporary graphic design. This international collection documents the work of more than twenty-four graphic designers who engage in an aggressively simple typography. Lavishly illustrated with commentary by author J. Namdev Hardisty, the book explores the innovative posters, books, signage, and other forms of print design by such well-known designers as Daniel Eatock, Experimental Jetset, Spin, the Walker Art Center’s design studio, as well as those just beginning to make a mark on the design world, including MGMT., Project Projects, SEA, Xavier Encinas, Manuel Raeder, YES, and more.

About the Author
Namdev Hardisty is the founder, with Kimberlee Whaley, of The MVA, through which he has worked on print, web, and signage projects for a variety of clients, including Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, The Weisman Art Museum, and Analog Clothing. Namdev’s work is featured in Over & Over: A Catalog of Hand-drawn Patterns and Hand Job: A Catalogue of Type, both published by Princeton Architectural Press. He is also the author and designer of New Skateboard Graphics (2009). He received his BFA in Graphic Design from Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2003.

Author: J. Namdev Hardisty
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Year: 2011
Language: English
Format: 20,3 x 25,4 cm
Features: 256 pages, 390 color illustrations, 20 b/w illustrations
ISBN 9781568989662

Hyperactivitypography from A to Z

  • Author: Studio 3
  • Book category: Typography

  • Who knew that a publication that looks like an attractively designed children’s book could take such a revealing look at the demanding topic of typography. The colorful pages of Hyperactivitypography from A to [...]

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Who knew that a publication that looks like an attractively designed children’s book could take such a revealing look at the demanding topic of typography. The colorful pages of Hyperactivitypography from A to Z present a simple and fun, yet amazingly clever how-to that celebrates typography in all its complexity.

The book introduces common typography terms and trivia through charming illustrations, personal explanations, fun-filled activities and practical exercises. Hyperactivitypography from A to Z is an accessible workbook for beginners to learn the ropes of typography while having fun but also for typography experts to test their skills and take away new insights into the ramifications of typography and how it helps to convey information.

This book has been created by Studio 3, an in-school design agency at the Graphic Design Department of Westerdals School of Communication in Oslo. More info here www.hyperactivitypography.com

Authors: Studio 3
Publisher: Gestalten
Year: 2010
Language: English
Format: 16 x 21 cm
Features: 192, full color, hardcover
ISBN 978-3-89955-327-7

Thinking with Type

  • A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students
  • Author: Ellen Lupton
  • Book category: Graphic Design / Typography

  • Princeton Architectural Press all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page [...]

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Princeton Architectural Press all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering. Throughout the book, visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typographic form—what the rules are and how to break them. Thinking with Type is a type book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with words. More info and additional material related to this book here: www.thinkingwithtype.com

Authors: Ellen Lupton
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Year: 2010 (Second expanded edition)
Language: English
Format: 17.8 x 21.6 cm
Features: 224 pages, paperback, 100 color illustrations
ISBN 9781568989693

Herb Lubalin

  • Art director, graphic designer and typographer
  • Book category: Typography

  • Herbert Lubalin (1918 – May 24, 1981) was a prominent American graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg’s magazines: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde, and was responsible for the creative visual [...]

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Herbert Lubalin (1918 – May 24, 1981) was a prominent American graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg’s magazines: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde, and was responsible for the creative visual beauty of these publications. He designed the typeface, ITC Avant Garde, for the last of these; this distinctive font could be described as a post-modern interpretation of art deco, and its influence can be seen in many logos created in the 1990s and 2000s.

Authors: Gertrude Snyder & Alan Peckolick
Year: 1985
Format: 23 x 30 cm
Features: 184 pages

Pioneers of Modern Typography

  • Author: Herbert Spencer
  • Book category: Typography

  • “Nothing could be more useful than this book to focus on all the brilliant personalities that contributed to the creation of a new language in typography… This book is a must for students of design, [...]

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“Nothing could be more useful than this book to focus on all the brilliant personalities that contributed to the creation of a new language in typography… This book is a must for students of design, as it is for us professionals to evaluate the origins of modern typography before we take the next step.”
– Massimo Vignelli

In this essential reference, Herbert Spencer shows how new concepts in graphic design in the early decades of the twentieth century had their roots in the artistic movements of the time in painting, poetry, and architecture. Spencer examines the “heroic” period of modern design and typography, the beginning of which he traces to the publication in Le Figaro of the Italian artist Manetti’s Futurist manifesto. He discusses the work of such “pioneers” as El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. He examines the artistic background of the new concepts in graphic design, and traces the influences of futurism, Dadaism, de Stijl, suprematism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus. His text is profusely illustrated with examples of the new typography, shown in genres that range from posters and magazine covers to Apollinaire’s “figurative poetry.” This revised edition, which follows the revised and redesigned edition of 1983, includes a foreword by design critic Rick Poyner that discusses the important contributions to the history of graphic design made by Herbert Spencer.

Authors: Herbert Spencer
Publisher: The MIT Press; Revised edition (March 1, 2004)
Year: 1969
Language: English
Format: 220 x 305 mm
Features: 160 pages Binding Casebound Book with Dust Jacket

Slanted #8

  • 2d3d.4 - Typography / Design - Issue 08
  • Author: Slanted
  • Book category: Magazine / Typography

  • “2d3d” deals with a step-up of dimensions – from linearity to space – and everything in between. More than ever Slanted Magazine even crosses geographical borders, presenting works from Edhv (Eindhoven), Klein Dytham architecture (Tokyo), [...]

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“2d3d” deals with a step-up of dimensions – from linearity to space – and everything in between. More than ever Slanted Magazine even crosses geographical borders, presenting works from Edhv (Eindhoven), Klein Dytham architecture (Tokyo), Pixelgarten (Frankfurt), Maxime Buechi (Lausanne), Ina Saltz (New York), Erwin K. Bauer (Vienna), Sangho Park (Stuttgart) and many others. The sections “Fontlabels, Fonts & Families”, “Fontnames Illustrated” and “Typolyrics” introduce contemporary fonts and designers from all over the world, followed by interviews with Sabrina Tibourtine, Christoph Dunst, Sipho Mabona, Gemma O’Brien and Mr. David Carson.
Besides a portrait of »Buchstabenmuseum Berlin«, the Slanted Magazine introduces numerous 2d3d-works of professionals and students (Ebon Heath, Yulia Brodskaya, pleaseletmedesign, MWM Graphics, etc.).
The chapter introduction pages are decorated with Hubert Jocham’s headline-font “NeoDepth S8”, exclusively created for this issue.

Language: Deutsch, English
Release: Summer 2009
Format: 21 x 27 cm
Features: 196 pages, softcover

A homage to Typography

  • Typography...the very essence of graphic design..
  • Author: Pedro Guitton
  • Book category: Typography

  • A Homage to Typography contains 100 fonts and their applications, designed by top typographers. It covers typography in a wide variety of media, including examples ranging from publishing and corporate identity to product design and [...]

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A Homage to Typography contains 100 fonts and their applications, designed by top typographers. It covers typography in a wide variety of media, including examples ranging from publishing and corporate identity to product design and signage. Includes a CD with 57 free fonts.

Author: Pedro Guitton
Publisher: Index Book
Year: 2009
Language: English
Format: 18 x 24 cm
Features: 348 pages, hardcover with jacket
ISBN: 978-84-92643-07-3
CD included with free fonts