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Type - Simon Loxley

Type

The Secret History of Letters

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2006
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-84511-028-4 (ISBN)
CHF 34,90 inkl. MwSt
Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. This book treats typography as a measure of history. It is a guide through the history of letters and a study of their power. From fashion through propaganda and the development of mass literacy, it shows how typography has changed our world.
Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. Type is the message bearer: an art-form that impinges upon every literate being and yet for most of its history it has conformed to the old adage that 'good typography should be invisible', it should not distract with its own personality. It was only at the end of the nineteenth century that designers slowly realised that they could say as much with their lettering as writers could with their words. Form, of course, carries as much meaning as content. Now, anyone within reach of a computer and its limitless database of fonts has the same power. "Type: The Secret History of Letters" tells its story for the first time, treating typography as a hidden measure of our history. From the tempestuous debate about its beginnings in the fifteenth century, to the invention of our most contemporary lettering, Simon Loxley, with the skill of a novelist, tells of the people and events behind our letters. How did Johann Gutenberg, in late 1438, come to think of printing? Does Baskerville have anything to do with Sherlock Holmes? Why did the Nazis re-invent Blackletter? What is a Zapf?
"Type" is a guide through the history of our letters and a study of their power. From fashion through propaganda and the development of mass literacy, Loxley shows how typography has changed our world.

Simon Loxley, practicing typographer, designer and teacher, lives in London. This is his first book.

Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 404 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Informatik Grafik / Design Desktop Publishing / Typographie
ISBN-10 1-84511-028-5 / 1845110285
ISBN-13 978-1-84511-028-4 / 9781845110284
Zustand Neuware
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