Twentieth Century Type Designers
Sebastian Carter(Author)
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
3rd Edition
Published on 28. May 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-85331-851-4 (ISBN)
Description
This new edition of the text first published in 1987 includes an examination of the latest technological developments in the design and composition of type, and introduces the work of some of the more recent designers to have made their mark this century. Although the skeleton shapes of the letters of our alphabet hardly change, many skilled type designers have devoted much time, sometimes their whole lives, to drawing different versions of the outlines. This book serves as an introduction to the concept of typefaces and to some of the personalities who have created them - Goudy, Rogers, Koch, Gill, Morison, Van Krimpen, Trump, Tschichold, Frutiger, and Zapf - and places them in the context of the enormous changes that have occurred the 20th century in the methods of creating and setting type.
More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
212 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 233 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
689 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85331-851-4 (9780853318514)
Copyright in bibliographic data is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or its licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Sebastian Carter
Twentieth Century Type Designers
Book
03/1995
2nd Edition
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
€52.87
Article exhausted; check for reprint