New vintage type : classic fonts for the digital age

Author(s)

• Heller, Steven
• Anderson, Gail

Bibliographic Information

New vintage type : classic fonts for the digital age

[Steven Heller & Gail Anderson]

Thames & Hudson, 2007

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-191) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Pomp & Ornament: The Victorian Age
• 2. Slabs & Gothics: The Woodtype Era
• 3. Fashion & Flourish: The Art Deco Style
• 4. Austerity & Monumentality: The Modern Movement
• 5. Excess & Idiosyncrasy: The Eccentric Movement.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA84599007
• ISBN:
  • 9780500241370
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 192 p.
• Size: 26 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Type and type-founding -- History
  • LCSH : Computer fonts
  • LCSH : Graphic design (Typography)