Typographic Design: Form and Communication

Carter, Ronald A.; Carter, Rob

ISBN 10: 0442007590 / ISBN 13: 9780442007591

Published by International Thomson Publishing Services, 1993

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Typographic Design: Form and Communication

Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Services

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 2nd Edition

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About the Author:

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.
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.