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"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."--I Love Typography

A useful current overview for designers, consultants, agencies, and their customers of modernfonts, independent foundries, and innovative type designers.

A collection of graphic design brought together from a broad range of work including posters, CD design, book and magazine design, stationery and corporate work as well as website and CD ROM design.

Hand Job collects groundbreaking work from fifty of today's most talented typographers who draw by hand.

A Times-less showcase of cutting-edge work from 44 leading type designers.

CoolType2wo shows how it is done through the cutting-egde work of 44 international type artists and design firms.

A graphic design book which contains over 300 examples of fonts and type designs created by American studios and agencies.

This publication on typography unites the works made by students of the visual communication department at Ecole cantonale d'art of Lausanne during their degree course.

This volume presents an overview of the current diversity in typography and reveals where conventions have become established and where new approaches exist.

I Love Type is a collaboration between Viction:ary and TwoPoints.Net. The type collection series, with focus on one specific typeface at a time, documents the fashionable comeback of a selection of timehonored typefaces in a myriad of contemporary designs gathered from around the world.

I LOVE TYPE 05 - GILL SANS explores the multitude of unexpected ways this popular typeface has been used, subverted and reinvented by a host of clever and inspired designers in recent years.

This seventh volume in the well-received I Love Type series from Victionary has been eagerly awaited since the series was first announced, and does not disappoint - featuring the best contemporary design projects using Helvetica.

Originally commissioned by the The Times newspaper in 1931, the Times type family has become one of the most commonly used worldwide. This brand new volume in the I Love Type series from Victionary is expertly curated to prove that this highly functional type family can be highly aesthetic and cutting edge when utilised by internationally respected designers.

This project began with a simple question: Is there such thing as a computer program capable of taking over the routine tasks of letter design?

How will the analog and the digital coexist in the post-digital age of publishing? How will they transition, mix and cross over?

The Publishing Business is an invaluable guide to understanding what book publishing is and what it might become.

Indie Publishing is a practical guide to creating and distributing printed books regardless of your background, skill set, or ambition.

Publish Your Photography Book is the first book to demystify the process of producing and publishing a book of photographs.

Freedom of the Presses is at once a textbook and a toolbox for using artists' books and creative publications to further community engagement and social justice projects.

In The Case for Books, Robert Darnton, an intellectual pioneer in the field of the history of the book and director of Harvard University's Library, offers an in-depth examination of the book from its earliest beginnings to its shifting role today in popular culture, commerce, and the academy.

Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.

This edited work considers comics librarianship through the lens of critical librarianship, focusing on work done in and around the academic library.

This book constitutes the first full study of the Index of Prohibited Books to be published in English.

This anthology, the first of its kind, presents thirty-two texts on contemporary prints and printmaking written from the mid-1980s to the present by authors from across the world.

This visual history brings together an extraordinary collection of books to illustrate a canon of more than five hundred years of Western book design.

This second edition of An Introduction to Book History provides a comprehensive critical introduction to the development of the book and print culture.

We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages--of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness.

The Form of the Book Book brings together essential essays on the book – its history, present, and possible futures – by preeminent graphic designers and graphic design theorists/historians.

Andrew Haslam's Book Design is an inclusive look at design history, from papyrus scrolls to modern digital printing.

Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop is the first fully illustrated tour of this iconic print shop, chronicling the large cast of employees, entertainers, and American legends whose histories are intertwined with it.

Strikethrough explores protest materials through the urgency of their typographic form.

This collection contextualizes the current condition and potential of the artist's magazine, surveying the art worlds it has created and then superseded; the commercial media forms it has intervened in or subverted; and the expanded fields of cultural exchange it continues to engender.

The story of the illustrated book from the earliest printed books to the present day, told through the collections of the Victoria & Albert's National Art Library.

This volume weaves together scholarly essays, original artistic projects, and works of creative nonfiction to trace a history of illustrated books in South Asia from 1100 CE to the present.

The Pop-Up Hand Shadow Book features four illustrated animal hand shadow in a theatrical book structure.

A wonderful gift for aspiring creative artists, this book is the ultimate guide to creating paper pops.

Here at last is the definitive book on how to make a pop-up.

The Handbook offers the first modern, comprehensive overview of subjects relevant to the conservation and preservation of books.

In-House Bookbinding and Repair is a working document that contains information on setting up both a basic bookbindery and repair lab (i.e. the design, equipment, tools, and supplies needed) and instructions on rebinding and repairing cloth-bound books.

Drawing mainly on the extensive print collection of the Norton Simon Museum, the book includes works by the local founders of the movement as well as by artists who traveled west to print in Los Angeles.

Far outpacing other printmaking books on the market, The Printmaking Bible is the ultimate volume for anyone interested or involved in this evergreen creative field.

At the heart of the volume are fabulous, hugely diverse examples of Riso-printing, including postcards, magazines, posters, flyers, and experimental printed products, all of which inspire through vivacity of colour, unique textures and, above all, the perfectly imperfect authenticity of Risography.

NO MAGIC IN RISO is the result of 2 years of image separation studies and experiments. Instead of using wordy descriptions, we hope that readers can feel the wonders of Risograph printing through the details of the design in the book.

Presented in these pages you will find outstanding printed work, including brochures, packaging, annual reports, identity packages, and much more. The result is a compelling reminder of the potential of printing and production in graphic design.

Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is celebrated for his type-driven messages of social justice and Black power, emblazoned in rhythmically layered and boldly inked posters made for the masses.

Little Book of Letterpress is a treasure trove of remarkable work from some of the hottest and coolest letterpress studios working today.

Catalog for "Latin American Book Arts," a special exhibition of hand-made books by artists from Latin America on view at the Center for Book Arts January 13 - March 25, 1995.

Folding Techniques for Designers is a practical handbook, written by an expert in paper folding and origami, with specially commissioned step-by-step drawings and photographs clearly explaining over 70 folding techniques.

Whether you are a beginner or an established bookbinder wishing to refresh your memory, this practical book introduces the techniques with step-by-step instructions and photographs. It explains how to transform a few sheets of paper and some thread into a book to be proud of.

In as little as an afternoon, beginners will be on their way to folding, gluing, and sewing handmade books in a variety of shapes and styles, from rolled scrolls to Jacobs ladders, folded flexagons to case bindings.

From zines you can fold in a minute to luxurious leather journals and sumptuous sketchbooks, How to Make Books will walk you through the easy basics of bookmaking.

"Demonstrates basic as well as elaborate bindings constructed without adhesives and requiring no presses or other heavy equipment. A needle, a pair of scissors and a few other minor tools are all that is needed"

Volume II is an encyclopedia of ideas for binding one, two or three sections onto paper or vellum covers. These booklets are ideal for smaller projects by book artists, printmakers and calligraphers that don’t require hundreds of pages and offer a handsome presentation. These sewings require no equipment, only a needle, thread and scissors.

Exposed Spine Sewings offers a more advanced look at hand bookbinding without paste or glue. It is illustrated with elaborate diagrams for instruction and photographs of work by contemporary binders for examples.

Explore intriguing methods of combining bookbinding with specific crafts such as quilting, jewelry making, or polymer clay with Adventures in Bookbinding!

Re-Bound is a beautiful book on bookbinding with a fun green twist -all the projects use recycled and upcycled materials.

On the Grid: Ways of Seeing in Print surveys photographs, prints, artist's books, and printed sculptures from the dynamic permanent collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College.

The Book as Art presents more than 100 of the most engaging women's artist books created by major fine artists.

An invaluable guide to what is happening in the world of book design in the Netherlands and which presents a selection of 33 outstanding books published in 2008.

In presenting the Best Dutch Book Designs of 2012 (De Best Verzorgde Boeken)—the 54th edition of the award—the Stedelijk Museum continues a long and proud tradition.

A presentation of the best designed books of 2014, ranging from projects by well-known publishers to museum catalogues, anniversary publications and rare, privately-published books.

Anyone in book publishing will profit from consulting this visually appealing, instructive reference to see how great communicators around the world have applied their craft.

Between 2010 and 2013, editor Brigitte Schuster interviewed thirteen prominent Dutch book designers, reproduced here along with a wealth of images of the designers and their work, much of which has never before been reproduced.

For over 15 years, Granary Books has brought together bookmakers, writers and artists to explore the relationships between the visual and the verbal in the time-honored spirit of independent publishing.

Covering all the publishing processes up to distribution, Bookmaking addresses the needs of publishing professionals, whether they do the work themselves in-house or have it done to their specifications by outside suppliers.

Completely practical with only the most needed information, this book will provide designers with all the little details that can make or break a design.

Ready to Print is an easy to follow reference for designers that thoroughly each stage of how to prepare data for prepress and production.

This hands-on guide allows graphic design students to apply the knowledge acquired during their course.