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A Plain Tex Primer
ISBN: 9780198537243 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This outstanding introductory primer demystifies and explains T EX, an advanced and widely popular typesetting and page make-up system that is especially designed to facilitate scientific and technical publishing. The TEX system is highly versatile, designed for use on over 50 different types of personal, mini-, and mainframe computers. The book immediately provides the reader with sufficient information to begin the majority of tasks which he or she most likely wishes to tackle. Accessibly written at an introductory level, the book explains how high-quality results can be obtained by someone...
This outstanding introductory primer demystifies and explains T EX, an advanced and widely popular typesetting and page make-up system that is especia...
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206,86 zł |
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Tex in Practice: Volume 1: Basics
ISBN: 9780387975955 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. TEX has always been regarded as the most elegant and powerful system for computer typesetting. However, its widespread use, beyond academia, was hampered by its complexity. Recently, fairly good TEX implementations have come out for PCs putting TEX on the desks of many people: writers, designers, desktop publishers, engineers, and consequently, the interest in TEX has surged. What is needed at this point is a book that teaches step-by-step how to use TEX, illustrating each step by meaningful examples. This is exactly what S.v. Bechtolsheim's book does. It is a tutorial and guide for the...
TEX has always been regarded as the most elegant and powerful system for computer typesetting. However, its widespread use, beyond academia, was hampe...
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605,23 zł |
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Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces
ISBN: 9780471284291 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Specimens of 38 of the finest type families in the world are brought together in Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces, making it an invaluable reference tool for graphic designers, editors, art directors, production managers, desktop publishers, and students. Each type family is shown in display and text specimens with complete fonts including italic and bold variations; extended families such as Futura and Univers include additional type weights and widths. Each type family's section opens with a full-page experimental design, created by an outstanding graphic designer to...
Specimens of 38 of the finest type families in the world are brought together in Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces, making it an inval...
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155,73 zł |
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Typographic Milestones
ISBN: 9780471288947 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Profiles of 18 typographers who made significant contributions to the field, including oldies such as Gutenberg, Caxton, Caslon, Baskerville, Bodoni, and several moderns whose work--Times New Roman, Perpetua, Electra, etc.--is better known than their names.
Profiles of 18 typographers who made significant contributions to the field, including oldies such as Gutenberg, Caxton, Caslon, Baskerville, Bodoni, ...
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296,94 zł |
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The Type Specimen Book: 544 Different Typefaces with Over 3000 Sizes Shown in Complete Alphabets
ISBN: 9780471289531 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a well designed type specimen book displaying samples of type that was available from V&M Typographic in the 1970s. The displays are of their metal type library and should prove helpful to anyone interested in the selection of type from large typographers at that time. There is a one line sample of each face at the beginning of the book. Anyone interested in type in the pre-digital world of type should find this book of interest
This is a well designed type specimen book displaying samples of type that was available from V&M Typographic in the 1970s. The displays are of their ...
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221,73 zł |
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A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry
ISBN: 9780471696902 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lavishly illustrated with more than 450 images, A Typographic Workbook, Second Edition explains the process successful designers use to select, space, and creatively integrate fonts. This essential text demonstrates the use of type as a dynamic and expressive communication tool. This edition provides new and updated coverage of a broad range of topics-from a logical, clear historical overview of the craft to the latest digital technologies. Known for its highly interactive format, this Second Edition continues to include helpful review questions and multiple-choice quizzes, as...
Lavishly illustrated with more than 450 images, A Typographic Workbook, Second Edition explains the process successful designers use to select,...
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207,33 zł |
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Art Nouveau Typographic Ornaments
ISBN: 9780486243665 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The turn-of-the-century Arts and Crafts movement revitalized many art-craft domains, including of course typography. One sidelight to the typographic art, but one in which many printers specialized, was the typographical ornament -- long a tradition among the very earliest printers, once again brought to the avant garde of design.
The best American and European printers offered whole catalogs of original ornament in the Art Nouveau manner -- today they survive only in the archives of printers and historians of type. Here, from the archives of a contemporary typesetter and printing... The turn-of-the-century Arts and Crafts movement revitalized many art-craft domains, including of course typography. One sidelight to the typographic ...
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45,93 zł |
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Gothic and Old English Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts
ISBN: 9780486246956 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gothic or black-letter script, practiced by many medieval scribes, was a principal model for printer's type when printing was first invented. Characteristic thick strokes and stress on points and angles give the style a power and dignity that transcends the temporal.
Noted typographer and printing historian Dan X. Solo presents an impressive collection of 100 complete fonts of Old English and Gothic typefaces, derived from the immensely influential black-letter style. Choose from such classic type styles as: Abbey English, Alte Schwabacher, Blackstone, Caxton Initials, Dolbey, Engraver's... Gothic or black-letter script, practiced by many medieval scribes, was a principal model for printer's type when printing was first invented. Characte...
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68,99 zł |
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100 Ornamental Alphabets
ISBN: 9780486286969 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume noted typographer Dan X. Solo has compiled a treasury of attractive, eye-catching typefaces that will add decorative flair to almost any graphic project. Artists and illustrators can choose from a wealth of ready-to-use, royalty-free typefaces, including Anglo, Alfama, Sundance Decorated, Carnival Open, Daisy Delight, Laurel, Mole Foliate, Kobe, Barb, Ecclesiastic, Garland, Magnet, Fina Uncial, Chickadee Tooled, and many more. In this volume noted typographer Dan X. Solo has compiled a treasury of attractive, eye-catching typefaces that will add decorative flair to almost... |
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76,67 zł |
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Grunge Alphabets
ISBN: 9780486402826 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking its name from a distinctive and unconventional style of music and fashion, this innovative collection by typographer Dan X. Solo offers graphic artists a remarkable source of striking typefaces. One hundred offbeat, eye-catching alphabets include playful Fingerpaint, angular Desert Rat, whimsical Crazy Eights, Ninja, Hardscrabble, Everglades, Double Take, Bushman, Bramble, Aspodistra, and dozens more.
All fonts include uppercase alphabets; many contain punctuation marks as well as lowercase letters and numerals. These inexpensive and royalty-free alphabets will give a sharp,... Taking its name from a distinctive and unconventional style of music and fashion, this innovative collection by typographer Dan X. Solo offers graphic...
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49,77 zł |
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The Swifts: Printers in the Age of Typesetting Races
ISBN: 9780813921617 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On a December day in 1885, Bill Barnes, a journeyman from the New York World, and Joe McCann, representing the New York Herald, faced off in a match race of Swifts, compositors who set type by hand, individually, letter by letter, with incredible accuracy and speed. McCann got off to a slow start, but at the end of the four-hour race, he joined shopfloor legends Clinton -The Kid- DeJarnatt and the -Velocipede- George Arensberg as a working-class hero. It was not the last race of its kind between Swifts, but already looming were changes both social and technological that would cause these... On a December day in 1885, Bill Barnes, a journeyman from the New York World, and Joe McCann, representing the New York Herald, faced off in a matc... |
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155,77 zł |
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Designing with Type, 5th Edition: The Essential Guide to Typography
ISBN: 9780823014132 / Angielski / Miękka / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The classic Designing with Type has been completely redesigned, with an updated format and full color throughout. New information and new images make this perennial best-seller an even more valuable tool for anyone interested in learning about typography. The fifth edition has been integrated with a convenient website, www.designingwithtype.com, where students and teachers can examine hundreds of design solutions and explore a world of typographic information. First published more than thirty-five years ago, Designing with Type has sold more than 250,000 copies--and this fully...
The classic Designing with Type has been completely redesigned, with an updated format and full color throughout. New information and new image...
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99,88 zł |
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The Work of Stephen Harvard: A Life in Letters
ISBN: 9780914630043 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Calligrapher, stonecutter, illustrator, and type designer, Stephen Harvard's art and craftsmanship were rooted equally in the history of the book and the natural world. At his untimely death in 1988, Harvard left both a collection of graphic works and a body of prose that explored his dream of an ideal alphabet, "a perfect, proportionate set of images that shine with a pythagorean light," a dream that Harvard found as compelling and impossible "as the search for perpetual motion." David P. Becker's lovingly edited and sumptuously illustrated catalog, which won the American Library...
Calligrapher, stonecutter, illustrator, and type designer, Stephen Harvard's art and craftsmanship were rooted equally in the history of the book and ...
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102,23 zł |
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Metro Letters: A Typeface for the Twin Cities
ISBN: 9780972969611 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can a typeface communicate the unique character of a city? This is the question the University of Minnesota Design Institute proposed when it began the project "Typeface: Twin Cities" and commissioned six teams of talented typographers to create a custom font for Minneapolis and St. Paul. "Typeface: Twin Cities" was an experiment to further understand the relationship between typography and urban identity that sought not to brand the cities themselves but to engage the public's awareness and appreciation of design and typography throughout the metro area.
What began as an attempt to... Can a typeface communicate the unique character of a city? This is the question the University of Minnesota Design Institute proposed when it began th...
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116,78 zł |
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Digital Typography
ISBN: 9781575860107 / Angielski / Miękka / 685 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection, the second in the series, Knuth explores the relationship between computers and typography. The present volume, in the words of the author, is a legacy to all the work he has done on typography. When he thought he would take a few years' leave from his main work on the art of computer programming, as is well known, the short typographic detour lasted more than a decade. When type designers, punch cutters, typographers, book historians, and scholars visited the University during this period, it gave to Stanford what some consider to be its golden age of digital typography....
In this collection, the second in the series, Knuth explores the relationship between computers and typography. The present volume, in the words of th...
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158,84 zł |
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Typography Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Type in Graphic Design
ISBN: 9781592533015 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New in paperback, The Typography Workbook provides an at-a-glance reference book for designers on all aspects of type.
The book is part of Rockport's popular Workbook series of practical and inspirational workbooks that cover all the fundamental areas of the graphic design business. This book presents an abundance of information on type - the cornerstone of graphic design - succinctly and to the point, so that designers can get the information they need quickly and easily. Whereas many other books on type are either very technical or showcase oriented, this book offers ideas and... New in paperback, The Typography Workbook provides an at-a-glance reference book for designers on all aspects of type.
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141,24 zł |
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Type: The Secret History of Letters
ISBN: 9781845110284 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you've ever wondered exactly what a Zapf is, or if Baskerville has anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, Type is the answer to these questions and more. This is the story of the passions, and obsessions of the creator of type; of the influences of wars, persecution, and political upheaval, and the effects of business and technological breakthroughs on fonts and typography. From Gutenberg's first moveable type to the Internet, Simon Loxley tells the stories behind the letters, giving readers a cultural history unlike any other. After reading Type, readers will never look at the...
If you've ever wondered exactly what a Zapf is, or if Baskerville has anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, Type is the answer to these question...
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102,43 zł |
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The Ten Commandments of Typography: Type Heresy: Breaking the Ten Commandments of Typography
ISBN: 9781858943558 / Angielski / Twarda / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A humorous and incisive analysis of the basic tenets of typography and how to turn them on their heads, this book will appeal to the conformist and the non-conformist in everyone -- not just the newcomer to design. One side of this sharp-witted, cleverly designed guide presents the ten main rules, or 'commandments', of type design, addressing such aspects of typographic doctrine as legibility, alignment and capitalization; the other shows how type can successfully subvert these rules, presenting 'sacreligious' visual alternatives. In support of the commandments Felton includes a list of...
A humorous and incisive analysis of the basic tenets of typography and how to turn them on their heads, this book will appeal to the conformist and th...
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75,42 zł |
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Book of Types and Type Material
ISBN: 9781905217397 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wonderful work highlighting the typography and type designs used at Wilkes & Co, a leading London printer of the 19th century. Dozens of beautiful, classical typefaces and decorative borders are reproduced in this digitally re-mastered version, making Book of Types and Type Material a fascinating and highly relevant title for publishers, typographers, designers, art historians and enthusiasts alike.
A wonderful work highlighting the typography and type designs used at Wilkes & Co, a leading London printer of the 19th century. Dozens of beautiful, ...
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153,29 zł |
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Jan Tschichold, englische Ausgabe : Posters of the Avantgarde
ISBN: 9783764376048 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first time: the posters of the celebrated graphic artist and typographer. This book is an analytical examination of Tschichold s posters. It contains his own collection of posters, with works by Hans Arp, El Lissitzky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, and others, as well as the approximately 70 posters he designed himself. "For the first time: the posters of the celebrated graphic artist and typographer. This book is an analytical examination of Tschichold s posters. I... |
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106,27 zł |
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