Typographic Design: Form and Communication
Language: English
Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1985
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- Title
- Typographic Design: Form and Communication
- Author
- Carter, Rob, Day, Benjamin R.
- Publisher
- Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- Used-Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0442261667
- ISBN 13
- 9780442261665
- Illustrator
- Profusely Illustrated
- Edition
- Later prt.
- Item weight
- 2.1 pounds
- Dimensions
- 10.78H x 0.76L x 8.40W
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∗ 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.
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About the Author
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.
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.
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