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New Vintage Type: Classic Fonts for the Digital Age

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title New Vintage Type: Classic Fonts for the Digital Age
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Steven Heller
By (author) Gail Anderson
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 250,Width 250
Category/GenreGraphic design
Typography and lettering
ISBN/Barcode 9780500288184
ClassificationsDewey:686.224
Audience
General
Illustrations 400 Illustrations, color

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 16 February 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Steven Heller is co-chair of the MFA Design: Designer as Author programme at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is the author of many books, including Stencil Type, Graphic, Typography Sketchbooks, New Ornamental Type and New Vintage Type, all published by Thames & Hudson. Gail Anderson is the creative director at Visual Arts Press at the School of Visual Arts and a partner at Anderson Newton Design. With Steven Heller, she is the author of New Ornamental Type and The Typographic Universe, both published by Thames & Hudson.