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Author(s): Steven Heller
Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts - from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond - play in contemporary graphic design. Written and compiled by the world's leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed texts that will entertain, edify and inspire a new generation of students and practitioners to appreciate that the past contains typographic riches for the future.
General Information
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- : Thames & Hudson Ltd
- : Thames & Hudson Ltd
- : 1.32
- : 03 September 2007
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Steven Heller
- : Hardback
- : 807
- : 192
- : 400 colour illustrations
More About The Product
Steven Heller is art director of the New York Times Book Review and co-chair of the School of Visual Arts in New York. Among his recent publications is Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age, also published by Thames & Hudson. Gail Anderson is senior designer at SpotCo and former art director of Rolling Stone magazine.