Texts on type : critical writings on typography / edited by Steven Heller and Philip B. Meggs.
Contributor(s): Heller, Steven [editor]
| Meggs, Philip B [editor].
Material type: 
BookPublisher: New York : Allworth Press 2001Description: xi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1581150822 (paperback).Subject(s): Type and type-founding | Graphic design (Typography)DDC classification: 686.224 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 686.224 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00106250 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Spanning the 20th century, with emphasis on the 1940s to the present, this collection will be necessary reading for all design students and faculty.
Students and teachers of graphic design will enrich their understanding of 20th century type design and typography with this unique anthology. Contained in this volume are more than 50 important, known and rare texts by critics, historians, and type designers about the history, aesthetics, and practice of type design and typography. An invaluable addition to any school course on type theory and practice, the book contains heretofore unprinted essays by major type masters, including W.A. Dwiggins, Hermann Zapf, and Paul Rand, as well as critical analyses of vintage and contemporary type and type design. A supplement to the successful Looking Closer series, the book specifically pinpoints those texts that will increase the common knowledge of typographic history and criticism. 25 B&W Illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Aesthetics: on form and expression -- Criticism: type as discourse -- Anatomy: understanding typefaces -- Movement: defining Modernism -- Practice: how type works -- Reflections: type and passion.