Type Form & Function
A Handbook on the Fundamentals of Typography
Published on 1. March 2011
208 pages
978-1-61058-030-4 (ISBN)
Description
Type, Form, and Function is a useful, comprehensive typography resource that both students and professional designers should have in their library. It looks at the influences of modern typography and symbols going back through time and examines certain type treatments and movements in design and logo types. It focuses on how type works and emphasizes typographic fundamentals, while touching on logo/logotype design and page layout (print and interactive). This book promises to guide designers through the visual typographic clutter to make their designed messages more meaningful.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Beverly
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Illustrations
300
ISBN-13
978-1-61058-030-4 (9781610580304)
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Book
03/2011
Rockport Publishers
€54.05
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Person
Jason Tselentis teaches graphic design and typography at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. He is the author of Type, Form, and Function by Rockport Publishers.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- FORM
- Words with Zuzana Licko
- Letter Fundamentals
- Type Design
- Transformations
- Letters as Identity
- COMPOSITION
- Words with Amanda Altman
- Text
- The Grid
- Hierarchy + Layout
- Contrast
- PRINCIPLES
- Words with Patrizia Kommerell & Gabriel Shalom
- Readability
- Formal Issues
- Color
- Three Dimensions
- EXPERIMENTATION
- Words with Oded Ezer
- Alternate Media
- The Play Principle
- Meaning
- Pushing Boundaries
