How many female type designers do you know?: I Know Many and Talked to Some! - Hardcover

Onomatopee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9493148327 ISBN 13: 9789493148321

Publisher: Onomatopee, 2020

Synopsis

This book aims to shine light on work of women in type. The first part of the book offers research on the gender issue in type design field. It includes statistics, data and an overview of some works that address this issue. Further it contains some biographies of female type designers that worked in the 19th and in the beginning of 20th century. These women contributed to the industry, yet they are rarely mentioned in educational material. The second part is a series of the interviews with 14 women that are either currently working as type designers or are in any other way involved in the field of type design. These interviews intend to uncover the topic of unequal share of female and male speakers at type conference as well as the lack of women in the industry. The last part of the book is a showcase of typefaces designed by women. The purpose of this part is to show the great amount and broad variety of such typefaces. Interviews with Designers: Gayaneh Bagdasaryan, Veronika Burian, Maria Doreuli, Louise Fili, Martina Flor, Loraine Furter, Jenna Gesse, Golnar Kat Rahmani, Indra Kupferschmid, Briar Levit, Zuzana Licko, Ana Regidor, Fiona Ross and Carol Wahler.

Edition details

• Publisher: Onomatopee
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9493148327
• ISBN 13: 9789493148321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320