Neue schriften - New typefaces: Positionen und perspektiven. Allemand/Anglais - Couverture souple

Gutemberg-Museum

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3721208927 ISBN 13 : 9783721208924

Editeur : NIGGLI, 2014

Synopsis

Neue Schriften. New Typefaces. offers insight into the fascinating world of type design. Positions in contemporary type design are presented in words and pictures: key protagonists offer insights into their thinking and working, take a position on current developments under the new technical, aesthetic and socio-political conditions.

While in the 1970s just a few hundred new typefaces were published, today we can choose from tens of thousands of fonts - with an upward tendency. This publication, however, shows that current type design is not subject to randomness or a fashionable hype. Seventy different type designs present an overview of current developments. For the exhibition Call for Type. New Fonts. New Typefaces. at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz twenty typefaces were chosen and expanded on in very personal reflections by their designers which take the form of interviews in the book. From the rich international cosmos of typefaces the book presents experimental type designs, based either on a spontaneous idea or the concept of an individually chosen design project; there are display fonts with a small range of styles or typefaces for books with large type families, which, often over a number of years, were developed systematically with passion, endurance and an unswerving attention to characteristic detail.

Therefore this publication not only documents a high professionalism, but also a great and passionate enthusiasm as the driving force of today's type designers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Petra Eisele studied Art History and German. She was a Research Associate for the History and Theory of Design at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. She has been Professor of History and Theory of Design at the FH Mainz since 2006. Isabel Naegele studied Visual Arts at the HfG-Offenbach; since 1999, she has been Professor of Typography and Basics of Design at the FH Mainz. Annette Ludwig has been Director of the Gutenberg Museum Mainz since 2011.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Neue Schriften. New Typefaces. offers insight into the fascinating world of type design. Positions in contemporary type design are presented in words and pictures: key protagonists offer insights into their thinking and working, take a position on current developments under the new technical, aesthetic and socio-political conditions.

While in the 1970s just a few hundred new typefaces were published, today we can choose from tens of thousands of fonts - with an upward tendency. This publication, however, shows that current type design is not subject to randomness or a fashionable hype. Seventy different type designs present an overview of current developments. For the exhibition Call for Type. New Fonts. New Typefaces. at the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz twenty typefaces were chosen and expanded on in very personal reflections by their designers which take the form of interviews in the book. From the rich international cosmos of typefaces the book presents experimental type designs, based either on a spontaneous idea or the concept of an individually chosen design project; there are display fonts with a small range of styles or typefaces for books with large type families, which, often over a number of years, were developed systematically with passion, endurance and an unswerving attention to characteristic detail.

Therefore this publication not only documents a high professionalism, but also a great and passionate enthusiasm as the driving force of today's type designers.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NIGGLI
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3721208927
• ISBN 13: 9783721208924
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible