Classic Typefaces
Classic Typefaces

Author: David Consuegra

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-10-10

Total Pages: 894

ISBN-13: 1621535827

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Graphic designers will enrich their understanding of American type design and type designers with this unique and extensive reference. The fascinating history of type in America is chronicled through the typefaces and biographies of sixty-two of the most influential type designers, including Linn Boyd Benton, Morris Fuller Benton, and Darius Wells, and through the description and history of nine American type foundries. Complete with samples of 334 different typefaces, and 700 black-and-white illustrations, this eye-popping reference reveals the expansive contribution America has made to the world of type design.

Letter Forms
Letter Forms

Author: Frederick W. Lambert

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1972-01-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780486228723

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Illustrates 110 complete alphabets in various type styles in capital letters, and includes sixteen complete lower case alphabets, and seventy sets of numbers and other symbols.

Measured Words
Measured Words

Author: Arielle Saiber

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2017-11-29

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1487513313

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Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Saiber studies the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers of the time: Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Niccolò Tartaglia, and Giambattista Della Porta. Although these Renaissance humanists came from different social classes and practised the mathematical and literary arts at varying levels of sophistication, they were all guided by a sense that there exist deep ontological and epistemological bonds between computational and verbal thinking and production. Their shared view that a network or continuity exists between the literary arts and mathematics yielded extraordinary results, from Alberti’s treatise on cryptography and Pacioli’s design calculations for the Roman alphabet to Tartaglia’s poetic solutions of cubic equations and Della Porta’s dramatic applications of geometry. Through lively, cogent analysis of these and other related texts of the period, Measured Words presents, literally and figuratively, brilliant examples of what interdisciplinary work can offer us.

Grunge Alphabets
Grunge Alphabets

Author: Dan X. Solo

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780486402826

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Offbeat, eye-catching typefaces add a sharp, contemporary look to display ads, posters, signs, menus, and other graphic projects. Fonts include the jagged-edged style of Ransom Note, playful Kidprint and Fingerpaint, angular Desert Rat, whimsical Crazy Eights, and dozens more: Ninja, Hardscrabble, Everglades, Double Take, Bushman, Bramble, and Aspodistra.

The Printed Book of the Renaissance
The Printed Book of the Renaissance

Author: E.P. Goldschmidt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 052116706X

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This beautifully presented volume provides a historical study of the book in its relationship with the dissemination of new artistic ideas during the Renaissance.

ICGG 2018 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics
ICGG 2018 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics

Author: Luigi Cocchiarella

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-06

Total Pages: 2334

ISBN-13: 3319955888

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This book gathers peer-reviewed papers presented at the 18th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics (ICGG), held in Milan, Italy, on August 3-7, 2018. The spectrum of papers ranges from theoretical research to applications, including education, in several fields of science, technology and the arts. The ICGG 2018 mainly focused on the following topics and subtopics: Theoretical Graphics and Geometry (Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, Kinematic and Descriptive Geometry, Computer Aided Geometric Design), Applied Geometry and Graphics (Modeling of Objects, Phenomena and Processes, Applications of Geometry in Engineering, Art and Architecture, Computer Animation and Games, Graphic Simulation in Urban and Territorial Studies), Engineering Computer Graphics (Computer Aided Design and Drafting, Computational Geometry, Geometric and Solid Modeling, Image Synthesis, Pattern Recognition, Digital Image Processing) and Graphics Education (Education Technology Research, Multimedia Educational Software Development, E-learning, Virtual Reality, Educational Systems, Educational Software Development Tools, MOOCs). Given its breadth of coverage, the book introduces engineers, architects and designers interested in computer applications, graphics and geometry to the latest advances in the field, with a particular focus on science, the arts and mathematics education.