Nyhetsbrev 8 - Antikvariat Morris

eskilson, stephen j.: Graphic Design: A New History
Laurence King, London 2007. 464 pp. 4:o (29,2 x 22 cm). Stiff
paper wrappers. 475 illustrations. New copy.
The history of graphic design is a very under-published subject
for such a widely studied discipline. Now Stephen Eskilson provides
a scholarly and accessible account of the field from Gutenberg
to today. His approach is distinctive in that, for the first
time, the subject is fully discussed in the light of prevailing political,
social, military and economic conditions, nationalism, and
gender. Clearly designed and easy-to-follow, the book tells the
story chronologically with key topics developed by way of cultural
comparison. It covers a host of different media: book, journal,
magazine and album covers, photographs, prints, posters,
logos and websites. Featured designers include Albers, Benton,
Brody, Earls, Glaser, Morris, Rodchenko, Sagmeister, Scher and
Toulouse-Lautrec. Logo designers Bass, Chermayeff & Geismar
and Rand receive substantial coverage. Pioneering typographers
covered range from Garamond, Caslon and Morison to Hoefler,
Licko and Carter.
pipes, alan: Foundations of Art & Design
Laurence King, London 2008. 272 pp. 4:o (28 x 21 cm). Paperback.
416 illustrations, 272 in colour. Second edition. New copy.
Foundations of Art & Design, in its new and updated edition,
guides artists and designers through the fundamentals of their
fields and provides insights into putting these principles into
practice. Part 1 covers the elements that can fill a blank page
– points and lines, shapes, textures and colours – to create a sense
of space, time and motion. Part 2 reveals how to develop unity
and harmony, balance, scale and proportion, contrast and emphasis
and rhythm to achieve a successful whole. Comprehensive
yet accessible, with a wide range of illustrations drawn from all
areas of art and design, this is an ideal book for students embarking
on courses in graphic design, fine art and illustration as well
as allied courses in interior design, fashion design, textile design,
industrial design, product design and printmaking.
Alan Pipes is a freelance writer, illustrator, webmaster and parttime
publisher, specializing in the applications of computers in
graphic design, fine art, illustration and product design. He is the
former editor of CadCam International and the author of Drawing
for Designers, Introduction to Design and Production for
Graphic Designers (5th edition).
heller, steven & illic, mirko: Icons of Graphic Design
Thames & Hudson, London 2008. 224 pp. 4:o (30,5 x 22,7 cm).
Paperback with flaps. 967 illustrations, 764 in colour. New copy.
Icons of Graphic Design presents a unique history of design,
documenting over a century of creative brilliance. Showcasing
the most influential designs and designers from 1900 to the
present, this outstanding collection illustrates how the best ideas
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perpetuate themselves over time, one great concept inspiring the
next. More than one hundred seminal images – one from each year
– are shown alongside the works that preceded their creation and
the designs that were inspired or evolved from them. Examples include
work from both famous and anonymous graphic artists – from
Toulouse-Lautrec and Milton Glaser to Peter Saville and Michel
Gondry – visually juxtaposing each example to reveal a theme or
artistic device.
mitchell, michael & wightman, susan:
Book Typography. A Designer’s Manual
Libanus Press, Marlborough, Wiltshire 2005. 434 pp. (23,5 x 18,5 cm). Soft
cover with folding flaps. With over 1000 examples, illustrations and diagrams.
New copy.
”Book Typography: A Designer´s Manual” is a comprehensive guide to
typography and typesetting. Books depend on good design to communicate.
Every type of book, from a poetry collection to an encyclopedia, has its own
style of communication. This manual describes the principles of good design,
why they exist, and how to put them to practice.
”Book Typography” leads the reader from an understanding of what is a
readable text, through the construction of books through all their different
forms - novels, illustrated books and complex reference works. The organization
of text and the handling of images are explained in detail. Advice is also
given on work progression and print management.
Designing books is a visual task and is best demonstrated with visual examples.
”Book Typography” contains over a thousand examples and illustrations
showing typographic principles put into practice - from the smallest
detail of punctuation to flat plans of entire books. All the samples come from
published works and each is labeled with the font used, its size and leading.
Additional information and comment is provided in the side notes.
”Book Typography” defines the industry´s technical terminology in the chapter,
“The Basic Terms of the Trade”. An extensive glossary is also included.
It is an essential guide for students and recent graduates hoping to work in
book design and publishing.
”Book Typography” covers every aspect of the book designer´s task, providing
an invaluable reference to editors, copy-editors, proofreaders, production
managers and publishers.
[haag-dragulin] Die Schriftproben des volkseigenen Betriebes Offizin
Haag-Dragulin
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Offizin Haag-Dragulin, Leipzig 1953. 632 pp. Bound in original
orange-brown cloth with gilt-stamped spine and upper cover. Top
edge yellow. Introduction by Horch Erich Wolter (67 pp), followed
by the type specimens showing a nice range of roman and italic
faces, frakturs, display faces, gothics plus Cyrillic types. There are c.
30 pages of decorative material as ornaments, printers flowers and
borders. Printed in black, yellow and red. The foreword illustrated
with plates of type faces. A very good copy indeed.

lumenthal, joseph: Art of the Printed Book 1455–1955. Masterpieces
of typography through five centuries from the collections of the Pierpont
Morgan Library New York
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York / David R. Godine, Boston,
1984. xiv, 192 pp. + colophon. 4:o (31,2 x 23,5 cm). Red cloth, gilt
stamped title on spine and Aldus’ printer mark, the anchor-anddolphin,
on front cover. Dust jacket. Fourth printing. Includes a
bibliography. Typograpy by Joseph Blumenthal. 125 plates plus one
folding.
The 112 books selected and reproduced, from the Gutenberg Bible
to the twentieth-century works of Mardersteig, Rogers, Gill, Updike
and Meynell are among the finest copies known and, as would
be expected from the Morgan Library and Mr. Blumenthal, no effort
has been spared in the production, design, or illustration of this
impressive volume.
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berry, john d.: dot-font: Talking About Fonts
Mark Batty Publisher, New York 2006. 128 pp. (20,5 x 14 cm). Paperback.
Illustrated in colour. New copy.
Mark Batty Publisher proudly commences the dot-font series,
about design in the world around us, with two titles: dot-font:
Talking About Design and dot-font: Talking About Fonts. Both
books offer a selection of direct, opinionated, authoritative, often
witty essays selected from the “dot-font” column that John Berry
has written since 2000 for the website for creative professionals,
Creativepro.com. In these essays, Berry, who is both an editor and
designer himself, assesses practitioners, ideas, successes, and failures
with regard to the fields of design and fonts.
Berry believes that all aspects of design ought to be taught as an
essential part of modern education. He writes, “We live, after all,
in a designed world, and we’re responsible for designing it.” Design
is everywhere, yet it’s rarely understood for what it is. Design
can be fashionable, but fashion is not design. To that end, in these
two books, Berry investigates how design makes a difference in the
real world (ballot design, mapping mass transit), challenges longstanding
beliefs about fonts, and explores how traditions have been
augmented by technology.
All of the releases in the Dot-font series will be small, inexpensive
books that compactly illuminate their respective subjects. They
are written and illustrated to be accessible for the layperson, but
contain examples and insight sure to intrigue the most experienced
designers and typographers.
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berry, john d.: dot-font: Talking About Design
Mark Batty Publisher, New York 2007. 128 pp. Paperback with
flaps. Illustrations in b/w & colour. New copy.
It is written and illustrated to be accessible for the layperson, but
contain examples and insight sure to intrigue the most experienced
designers and typographers.