Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Typeface is one of the greatest designs, enjoying a supreme reputation in graphic communication. For every graphic designer, typeface design and application is an everlasting pursuit. This book strives to display and interpret typeface designs along with interviews with various designers. To elaborate the development and application of typeface, this book has invited designers, including Aaron Nieh and Zhihong Wang from Taiwan, Panos Vassiliou from Greece, Rodrigo Saiani from Brazil, Benoit Bodhuin from France and so forth, to share their insights into typeface.
Synopsis
Type designers are fanatical, living, breathing and eating type as they strive to create fonts capable of withstanding the test of time. This new book aims to be the definitive resource for aspiring typographers, with profiles and interviews of ten internationally renowned typeface designers on the state of typography. While they work with different alphabets or characters Roman, Cyrillic and Chinese they share a common bond as they work to improve visual communication. Also included is a showcase of contemporary applications: Typeface in Branding, Artistic Type and The Rhythm of Typeface along with Typeface in the Digital Age and The Commercial Designers Typeface Handbook. Whats your type?