New Vintage Type: Classic Fonts for the Digital Age

New Vintage Type: Classic Fonts for the Digital Age

by StevenHeller (Author), Gail Anderson (Author)

Synopsis

Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts - from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond - play in contemporary graphic design. Written and compiled by the world's leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed texts that will entertain, edify and inspire a new generation of students and practitioners to appreciate that the past contains typographic riches for the future.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 03 Sep 2007

ISBN 10: 0500241376
ISBN 13: 9780500241370

Author Bio
Steven Heller is art director of the New York Times Book Review and co-chair of the School of Visual Arts in New York. Among his recent publications is Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age, also published by Thames & Hudson. Gail Anderson is senior designer at SpotCo and former art director of Rolling Stone magazine.