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New Vintage Type

New Vintage Type

Classic Fonts for the Digital Age

by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/02/2009

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Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond play in contemporary graphic design.

Written and compiled by the worlds leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed texts that will entertain, edify and inspire a new generation of students and practitioners to appreciate that the past contains typographic riches for the future.
ISBN:
9780500288184
9780500288184
Category:
Graphic design
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-02-2009
Publisher:
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
250x250x16mm
Weight:
1.01kg
Steven Heller

Steven Heller is Senior Art Director at The New York Times. He is also editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design and co-chair MFA/Design Program of the School of Visual Arts in New York.

He is author and co-author of numerous books including Graphic Style: From Victorian to Post-Modern and Graphic Wit and Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design.

In 1996, Heller received the New York Art Directors' Special Educator's Award.

Gail Anderson

Gail Anderson is a designer, writer, and educator.

Anderson is the recipient of the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Medal from the AIGA, the 2009 Richard Gangel art direction award from the Society of Illustrators, and has lectured about design at organizations and conferences around the world.

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