Typography Books
Transforming Type: New Directions in Kinetic Typography
Transforming Type examines kinetic or moving type in a range of fields including film credits, television idents, interactive poetry and motion graphics. As the screen increasingly imitates the properties of real-life environments, typographic sequences are able to present letters that are active and reactive. These environments invite new discussions about the difference between motion and change, global and local transformation, and the relationship between word and image.
Custom Lettering of the 60s
Custom Lettering of the 60s & 70s is a celebration of the beautiful and stylistically diverse hand-drawn lettering that was a unique feature of headline type before the advent of Letraset and the computer. Custom lettering gave designers' imaginations full rein to develop individualistic solutions unconstrained by typographic practicalities.
Custom Lettering of the 40s
Custom Lettering of the 40s & 50s is a celebration of the stunning and stylistically varied headline lettering that predated modern computer type. Each a unique one-off, custom hand-drawn lettering had a stylistic freedom and creative energy unfettered by traditional typographic rules and regulations. This unique publication collects over 4,500 examples of custom lettering - from urgent rough block capitals to sophisticated looping copperplate scripts, elegant fashion brush scripts and dynamic illustrative sans serifs, the extraordinary range of graphic styles is as exciting as it is stylistically diverse.
Erik Spiekermann: Typographer, Designer, Entrepreneur
Erik Spiekermann is the epitome of a typographer. With his typefaces, commercial projects, and enterprises, he has shaped the world of graphic design like no other. Hello, I am Erik showcases his body of work and tell the story of his life.
Detail in Typography
An attractive, interesting layout can certainly attract and please the reader; but when the details are not good, reading requires more effort and any pleasure is shortlived. Detail in Typography is a concise and close-up view of the subject. It considers all the elements that constitute a column of text letters, words, the line, and the space around these elements - and it discusses what is essential for the legibility of text.
Creative Lettering and Beyond
Creative Lettering and Beyond combines the artistic talents and inspirational tips and tutorials of several professional hand letterers and calligraphers for a dynamic and interactive learning experience.
Graphic Digits
Graphic Digits is a groundbreaking review focusing on numeral designs and applications. From handicrafts to vector configurations, this title examines the artistic possibilities of customising rational and random numeral combinations in graphic identities, packaging, celebrations and marketing campaigns.
Typographic Universe
Unlike most books on typography that present the "best" and most refined examples, the object of this inspiring sourcebook is to reveal the "lost" or "unseen" typographies in nature and our cities. From machine-made and sculptural forms to flora and fauna, from the fading ghost types on buildings dating to a pre-digital age to the subterranean forms found beneath our urban centers, and from crowd-sourced creations to the popular vernacular, there is a universe of letterforms all around us.
Type on Screen
Type on Screen is the definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications.
Shadow Type
Shadow Type presents a broad spectrum of examples-advertising, shop signs, billboards, posters, type-specimen books-featuring the most popular, rare, and (nearly) forgotten dimensional letters from Europe and the United States. Compiled by the leading historian of graphic design Steven Heller and renowned graphic designer Louise Fili, this invaluable collection, packed full of typographic ideas, will inspire anyone aiming to give more depth to their design.
Lettering Large: The Art and Design of Monumental Typography
Typography has jumped off the printed page to stand on its own as branding, sculpture, and even architecture. Lettering Large examines this phenomenon through a diverse collection of images collected from a vast range of sources around the world.
Yearbook of Type 1
The Yearbook of Type is an independent compendium presenting a selection of the best fonts designed or released during the last four years.
Fifty Type Faces That Changed The World
Fifty Type Faces That Changed The World showcases the 50 most influential fonts not just on the page of the book, but in use on cellphone screens, billboard posters, perfume packaging, aircraft hulls, buildings and more.
Draw Your Own Alphabets
Draw Your Own Alphabets is a fun, hands-on workbook that teaches how to create funky hand-lettered fonts sure to jump off the page, poster, or screen.
LetterScapes
LetterScapes features thirty-seven typographic installations in public spaces that demand attention with their graphic impact and communicative power.
Typoholic: Material Types in Design
No longer solely relegated to the confines of print, today's typefaces often leap off the page to write their own stories, providing some of the most thrilling and innovative expressions of our alphabet ever created in three glorious dimensions. Typoholic collects a sampling of the most recent trends and developments in type design by designers who utilize such diverse mediums as illustration, craft, fashion, photography and performing arts to manifest their designs - whether for branding, editorial, product, promotional or installation based applications.
Design with Type
Addressing typographic approaches to a variety of printed forms, Design with Type is a classic work in a field of design.
Typography 33
the Type Directors Club's Typography 33 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in the field for the year 2011. Selected from approximately 2300 international submissions to the annual Type Directors Club competition, the winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in the use of type design, representing a wide range of categories including books, magazines, corporate identities, logos, stationery, annual reports, video and web graphics, and posters.
The Elements of Typographic Style
Renowned typographer and poet Robert Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide.
Typography Annual 3
The third Typography Annual showcases the best use of type in advertising and design, handlettering, calligraphy and original typeface design from all over the world.
Letterpress Now: A DIY Guide to New & Old Printing Methods
Letterpress Now: A DIY Guide to New & Old Printing Methods is a contemporary how-to reference on letterpress. This book explains how to use a variety of presses, and covers an amazing range of techniques, all with step-by-step photos: setting metal and wood type, lino/relief block prints, photopolymer plates, die-cuts, and more.
Little Book of Lettering
Little Book of Lettering surveys the recent lettering renaissance, showcasing a diverse range of talent in gorgeous, eye-catching examples and profiling today's innovators.
Bright: Typography Between Illustration and Art
Featuring more than 300 entries, Bright presents a collection of pictorial typo-art, focusing on moving ahead. The differentiated spectrum, ranging from culturally rooted to revolutionary and innovative positions, does not leave out any sphere of interest: handpainted signs, tape-art, woodtype, letter objects, typographic sculptures, graffiti, tattoo art, generative performances, experimental type, and much more.
Digital Fonts
Digital Fonts is a comprehensive and practical guide that explores every aspect of the font creation process, covering everything from sketching initial letterforms to mastering the font creation software packages Fontlab and Fontographer.
How to Use Type
How to Use Type is a guide to the use of type in design for print and screen. It provides a creative, informative, and practical introduction for those studying all pathways of graphic design.
FontFace: The Complete Guide to Creating, Marketing & Selling Digital Fonts
Starting with the creation of fonts, moving to lessons on the software used to create them, and ending with helpful ways of marketing and selling, this is a groundbreaking must-have for digital artists of all kinds.
Free Font Index 3
Free Font Index 3 is an indispensable guide to free fonts and their creators. Over 500 fonts from 26 type foundries have been collected in this book and CD set.
Typography Fundamentals
Typography Fundamentals uses well-founded, guiding principles to teach the language of type and how to use it capably.
The Anatomy of Type
Obsessively organized into 17 group classifications, this unique compendium explores 100 typefaces in loving detail, and contains enough information - from the quirky to the factual - to turn anyone into a font geek.
Hand to Type
Hand to Type is a stunning compilation of hand-made and digital scripts that showcases the beauty of handwritten letterforms. The book features work by some of today's most successful and original calligraphers and lettering artists. In addition to fonts and lettering using the Latin alphabet, it introduces artists who explore Cyrillic, Arabic, and Greek scripts.