Signs

Lettering in the Environment

Phil Baines (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2003
Laurence King Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-85669-337-0 (ISBN)

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Letterforms surround us. They may be inscriptions, names on buildings, directional signs for road networks or inside buildings. This book focuses on the letterforms and typography found in public places, designed to help us to navigate town and countryside, and which add to our sense of place.

Featuring examples from all over the world, the authors discuss the function and execution of signage, focusing on the intentional rather than on the accidental or temporary. Visually led, the book contains some 700 colour images, thematically grouped, and described in extended captions, and the best current examples appear alongside historical material.

Phil Baines is a senior lecturer on the BA (Hons) Graphic Design course at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and the author of Type & Typography. Dr Catherine Dixon is a visiting tutor in Typography at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. Together they curate the Central Lettering Record.

Signs to direct and instruct; naming places and defining spaces.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.9.2003
Zusatzinfo	700 colour illustrations, glossary, index
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	240 x 250 mm
Gewicht	1020 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Desktop Publishing / Typographie
ISBN-10	1-85669-337-6 / 1856693376
ISBN-13	978-1-85669-337-0 / 9781856693370
Zustand	Neuware