Just My Type: The original and best book about fonts - Couverture souple

Garfield, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846683025 ISBN 13 : 9781846683022

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about.

As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.'

This edition is available with both black and silver covers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simon Garfield is the author of more than a dozen acclaimed books of non-fiction, including the international bestseller, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts, and a trilogy of edited diaries from the Mass Observation Archive, which includes the bestselling Our Hidden Lives. He lives in London and St Ives, with old maps lining the walls.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846683025
• ISBN 13: 9781846683022
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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