Find out how type works
Stop Steeling Sheep
1st Edition
Published in 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-3-949164-03-3 (ISBN)
Description
After almost three decades as one of the world's bestselling introductions to designing with type, Stop stealing sheep & Find out how type works continues to educate, entertain, and enlighten design students and type lovers around the globe.
In this fourth edition, Erik Spiekermann brings his type classic fully up-to-date with an all-new chapter on variable typefaces, scores of visual examples on how to effectively communicate with type, and a full selection of new typefaces used and referenced throughout the book.
If you use type - and these days, almost everyone does - Spiekermann's engaging, commonsense style will help you understand how to look at type, work with type, choose the best typeface for your message, and express yourself more effectively through design. Compact, yet rich with anecdotes and visual examples, the handbook's multilayered design not only makes for a fun, fast read, but it also invites exploration, ensuring you learn something new each and every time you open it up.
In this fourth edition, Erik Spiekermann brings his type classic fully up-to-date with an all-new chapter on variable typefaces, scores of visual examples on how to effectively communicate with type, and a full selection of new typefaces used and referenced throughout the book.
If you use type - and these days, almost everyone does - Spiekermann's engaging, commonsense style will help you understand how to look at type, work with type, choose the best typeface for your message, and express yourself more effectively through design. Compact, yet rich with anecdotes and visual examples, the handbook's multilayered design not only makes for a fun, fast read, but it also invites exploration, ensuring you learn something new each and every time you open it up.
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Erik Spiekermann (*1947 is information architect, type designer (FF Meta, FF Meta Serif, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit, FF Unit Slab, FF Real, LoType, Berliner Grotesk, et al, and many corporate typefaces for The Economist, Cisco, Bosch, Deutsche Bahn, Heidelberg Printing, Mozilla, etc), and author of numerous books and articles on type & typography. In 1979 he started MetaDesign, Germany's largest design studio, and in 1989 FontShop, the first independent distributor of electronic fonts. Erik's many awards and medals would be too boring to list. Apart from being on the board of Edenspiekermann, he now runs p98a.berlin, an experimental letterpress workshop in Berlin whose motto is "Hacking Gutenberg". Spiekermann lives and works in Berlin, London and San Francisco. He owns 15 bicycles and has 290,000 followers on Twitter.
Erik Spiekermann (*1947 is information architect, type designer (FF Meta, FF Meta Serif, ITC Officina, FF Info, FF Unit, FF Unit Slab, FF Real, LoType, Berliner Grotesk, et al, and many corporate typefaces for The Economist, Cisco, Bosch, Deutsche Bahn, Heidelberg Printing, Mozilla, etc), and author of numerous books and articles on type & typography. In 1979 he started MetaDesign, Germany's largest design studio, and in 1989 FontShop, the first independent distributor of electronic fonts. Erik's many awards and medals would be too boring to list. Apart from being on the board of Edenspiekermann, he now runs p98a.berlin, an experimental letterpress workshop in Berlin whose motto is "Hacking Gutenberg". Spiekermann lives and works in Berlin, London and San Francisco. He owns 15 bicycles and has 290,000 followers on Twitter.