The elements of typographic style / Robert Bringhurst.
By: Bringhurst, Robert [author.]
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BookCopyright date: ©2016Edition: Fourth edition.Description: 398 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780881792126 (paperback).Subject(s): Graphic design (Typography) | Type and type-founding | Layout (printing) | Book designDDC classification: 686.224 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 686.224 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | CIT Module DESI 6025 - Core reading. | 00162466 | |
| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 686.224 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00162467 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Renowned typographer and poet Robert Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide. Combining the practical, theoretical, and historical, this edition is completely updated, with a thorough revision and updating of the longest chapter, "Prowling the Specimen Books," and many other small but important updates based on things that are continually changing in the field.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-382) and index.
Historial synopsis -- The grand design -- Rhythm and proportion -- Harmony and counterpoint -- Structural forms and devices -- Analphabetic symbols -- Choosing and combining type -- Historical interlude -- Shaping the page -- The state of the art -- Grooming the font -- Prowling the specimen books.
CIT Module DESI 6025 - Core reading.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Robert Bringhurst was born October 16, 1946, in the ghetto of South Central Los Angeles and raised in the mountain and desert country of Alberta, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and British Columbia. He spent ten years as an undergraduate, studying physics, architecture and linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, philosophy and oriental languages at the University of Utah, and comparative literature at Indiana University, which gave him a Bachelor of Arts in 1973. He had published two books of poems before entering the writing program at the University of British Columbia, which awarded him an MFA in 1975.From 1977 to 1980 he taught writing and English literature at UBC, and after that, made his living as a typographer. He has also been poet-in-residence and writer-in-residence at several universities in North America and Europe. His book, The Elements of Typographic Style is considered a standard text in its field, and Black Canoe is one of the classics in the field of Native American art history. He received the Macmillan Prize for Poetry in 1975.
(Bowker Author Biography)