![]() This rich compendium of typographic ideas stresses the importance of typographic thinking at a time when reading habits are evolving, while celebrating the varied and innovative ways that designers practice this time- honored craft. More than 800 featured sketchbook pages reveal the designers’ creative practices across diverse briefs, concepts, languages, and alphabets. Arranged alphabetically, the world’s most exciting designers and typographers― including Philippe Apeloig, Ed Benguiat, Hoefler Type Foundry, Henrik Kubel, Toshi Omagari, and Francesco Zorzi― present a staggering range of ways to communicate with typography. ![]() This show- all tour through leading graphic designers’ personal sketchbooks reveals the creative processes behind typefaces, word- images, and logos. ![]() From type designers to expressive illustrators, each graphic designer has his or her own way of crafting or applying typefaces. Typography can embrace functions beyond the the purely communicative. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Page through the personal sketchbooks of the most influential and inventive illustrators and typographers working today "Typography Sketchbooks is like a visual window into the minds of the world's most exciting type designers and, in turn, into the intricate art-science of typography itself.". And it includes URLs for the contributors." - DART: Design Arts Daily It's a must for musing and inspiration for visual narrators. "Typography Sketchbooks (Princeton Architectural Press 2011), covers just about every nuance of visual communication from just about every possible approach to type design, from the highly controlled sketches of Matthew Carter (Cambridge, MA) to the free-wheeling headline sketches of Andy Smith (London, UK) to the sublimely beautiful photographic alphabets of Bob Aufuldish (San Anselmo, UK). Any reader who doodles will feel an itch in their fingers looking at these pages." - Communication Arts "Heller and Talarico have struck gold again with sketches revolving around type, type treatments, and letter forms. This book is bursting with amazing, colorful, often whimsical, imagery." -Fine Books & Collections This book peeps into the private sketchbooks of talented typographers like Emek Golan, Andy Smith, Tom Schamp, Daniel Pelavin, Bernard Maisner, Katie Lombardo, Jonny Hannah, and so many more. "Know someone who loves design? A devotee of letter forms or ABCs? Then this celebration of type should be on your list. "A fine new addition to both the 10 finest books on typography and our favorite peeks inside the notebooks of great creators: Typography Sketchbooks is like a visual window into the minds of the worlds most exciting type designers and, in turn, into the intricate art-science of typography itself a medium both creative and practical that has to walk the tightrope between centuries-old tradition and bleeding-edge innovation with equal parts grace and agility in an era of changing reading habits and design expectations." -Brain Pickings ![]()
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