Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students

By: Ellen Lupton

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Synopsis: Lupton (graphic design, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York) offers practical information about type within a context of design history and theory in a text that reflects the diversity of typographic life, past and present. Through three sections on letter, text, and grid, the volume begins with an exploration of the basic letter forms, and builds to the organization of words into coherent bodies and flexible systems. Each section opens with a narrative essay about the cultural and theoretical issues of typographic design across a range of media, followed by example pages demonstrating how and why typography is structured as it is. No subject index.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 224 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781568989693
Publisher:: Princeton University Press
Date of Addition:: 09/30/10
Copyrighted By:: Princeton Architectural Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Textbooks
Grade Levels:: College Freshman, College Sophomore, College Junior, College Senior
Submitted By:: 170
Proofread By:: 170
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.