Faces on the Edge: Type in the Digital Age
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Graphic Design
Faces on the Edge: Type in the Digital Age Details
From the Back Cover Steven Heller and Anne Fink Designed by Michael Ian Kaye Faces on the Edge Type in the Digital Age More than any other graphic medium, today’s fontography mirrors the traditions, eccentricities, and trends of modern society. Faces on the Edge, by prominent art director and author Steven Heller, is a spellbinding survey of the revolutionary effects of digital type design on 20th-century typography. More than 200 typefaces, from the classically inspired to the exuberantly (near) illegible, are featured in this compilation, illustrating how new technologies have dramatically increased the possibilities of type design. Included are typefaces from many of the world’s most innovative type foundries, such as Emigre Fonts, FontShop International, Garage Fonts, Thirst Fonts, Exploding Fonts, and T-26, and represents some of the finest type designers such as Zuzana Licko, Rudy VanderLans, Jonathan Hoefler, Tobias Frere-Jones, Ed Fella, and Barry Deck. The Typefaces are Organized into Six Kinds of Fontography: Rebirths and Revivals • Greeking Roman • Digital Carvings Off the Wall • Optical Delusions • Lots O’ Laffs Typefaces are identified by date, designer, and foundry; a brief description text places each in the larger context of digital type history. With useful information on how to obtain and apply each typeface, Faces on the Edge is an indispensable resource for graphic designers, desktop designers, and students alike. Over 200 illustrations in color and black and white document the real-life application of these inventive typefaces in popular magazines, advertising, posters, and multimedia. Faces on the Edge is a vivid, timely account of what is undeniably a significant era of type design. Read more About the Author About the Authors STEVEN HELLER is one of the most well-known spokespeople and commentators in the field of graphic design today. He has served as art director for many publications, and is currently Senior Art Director at the New York Times and editor of the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design. A prolific author, he has written over fifty books, including Designing with Illustration, Source-book of Visual Ideas, Design Career, Borrowed Design, and Innovators of American Illustration, published by Van Nostrand Reinhold. ANNE FINK is a designer and researcher. She is the co-author with Steven Heller of Borrowed Design, Covers and Jackets, and FoodWrap. She t## New York City. Read more
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As a designer and teacher, I find this book to be an inspirational springboard. From practicality to exclusivity, this book offers samples that must inspire one to produce new and fresh ideas unless one is clinically brain-dead.