In this book E.M. Ginger and Erik Spiekermann teamed up to explain clear and easily accessible their basic ideas on type. They do so with many illustration and with a fine sense of humor. Great book for the beginner!
Author Erik Spiekermann and E. M. Ginger
Publisher Adobe Press, 2. edition Juli 2002
Paperback 188 pages
ISBN 0201703394
Price $21.00
This book goes much further than
Stop Stealing Sheep and manages to maintain a very effective and pleasant ratio of illustration to text. Thinking with Type embraces the development of the past twenty years as well as traditional craftsmanship and punches right trough controversial issues like the typographic grid or type clasificaion making each topic easily accessible. Don't get scared off by the cover. The pages of this book are beautifully designed and the examples used are of the highest quality.
Author: Ellen Lupton
Princeton Architectural Press, in print (publication date 10/1/2004)
ISBN 1568984480 - ISBN13 9781568984483
7 x 8.5 inches (17.8 x 21.6 cm), Paperback, 176 pages
100 color illustrations
$19.95 £14.99 (Amazon $13.57)
<www.papress.com/thinkingwithtype/>
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Type, writing, lettering, type design theory
This little booklet is the transcript of a lecture given by Gerrit Noordzij at the Typografische Gesellschaft in Munich. Examining the way children learn how to read and write Noordzij unfolds here his views on the perception of type and pedagogics. Until now this text could only be found second hand at very rare occasions and is now available as PDF!
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Type, writing, lettering, type design theory
Over the course of years Gerrit Noordzij wrote up these little manifestos and send them to friend and foes in the type-universe. Balancing between provocative and pure genius here he developed his sometimes essential and sometimes very mundane theories. These writings are collected here for the first time and published in one book. The sequence of the texts seems to follow along the line of a conversation and is not necessarily building up in a didactic manner. Letterletter is absolutely worth the read. While still presenting his ideas in a very consise manner Gerrit Noordzij answers many questions in much more detail than
The Stroke manages to do.
Author Gerritt Noordzij
Publisher Andrews McMeel Publishing; (November 27, 2000)
Paperback 192 pages
ISBN 088179175X
Price $24.95
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Type, writing, lettering, type design theory
In his article «Broken Scripts and the classification of Typefaces» Gerrit Noordzij presented the core of his theory to an international audience of peers for the first time. Unfortunately this bijou is only available antiquarian.
Volume IV, Number 3, Summer 1970
Publisher The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Ohio, USA 44106
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Type, writing, lettering, type design theory
This is the predecessor of De Streek and contains Noordzij's teaching on type in a condensed form. A must have for the english reader and unfortunately so far also to be found only antiquarian.
Author Gerritt Noordzij
Publisher Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, 1982
52 pages
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Type, writing, lettering, type design theory
This booklet is considered to contain the basic ideas of Gerrit Noordzij in their most concise way. Unfortunately it was only available in Dutch language for many years. Then it was out of print and just not available at all. Now Peter Enneson has carefully translated this charming milestone and published it with HyphenPress titled The Stroke.
In english language
Title The stroke: theory of writing
Author Gerrit Noordzij
sewn paperback, 88 pages 210 x 125 mm b&w images
Publisher HyphenPress, fall 2005
ISBN 0-906259-30-8
Price £15.00
Dutch original
Title De Streek: Theorie van het schrift
Author Gerritt Noordzij
Paperback 79 pages
Publisher Koninklijke Drukkerij Van de Garde in Zaltbommel, 1985
ISBN 9070002175
ocasionally available in antiquarian form
<www.hyphenpress.co.uk/titles/stroke>
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Type specimens and type collections
Apparently complete to the almost absurd this large format book shows specimens of all american type faces which where created in the twentieth century and made available in metal. The information that goes with every type face lists type designer, foundry, available sizes, date of issue as well as the intended purpose.
Author Mac McGrew
Publisher Oak Knoll Books, New Castle 1996 2. revised edition
Paperback with Fadenbindung, 400 pages
1600 illustrations in b/w
ISBN 0938768395
Price $ 49.95
<www.oakknoll.com>
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Type specimens and type collections
This is still the most complete printed representation of typefaces to date and should be on the shelve of every designer. What FontShop has compiled here in a neat fashion is a specimens book of their own fonts as well as those of countless other foundries.
Authors Mai Linh Thi Truong, Jürgen Siebert and Erik Spiekermann
Publisher FSI FontShop International, June 1998
Hardcover 1500 pages
ISBN 3930023024
Price $109.00
<www.fontfont.com>
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Type history, reference, collection
A compendium of the development of Dutch type design ranging from 15. century to the present day. Dozens of interviews, and to date unpublished sketches, drawings and much more.
Author Jan Middendorp
Publisher Uitgeverij 010 Publishers, 2004
hardcover 320 pages, 275 x 220 mm
Price € 62.50
ISBN 9064504601
<www.dutchtype.org>
Required reading! The two authors created a book of great importance here.
Authors Fred Smeijers and Robin Kinross
Publisher Hyphen Press, February 1997
Paperback 184 pages
ISBN 0907259065
Price $28.00
<www.hyphenpress.co.uk>
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Software manual, reference
Essential reference that belongs on the shelf by your computer if you are into digital typedesign at all (
RTFM). Also available as a free
PDF™ download from the
Fontlab website.
OnDemand Manuals by FontLab, Ltd.
724 pages, perfect bound
catalogue no. 02-1246, ISBN 1-55395-531-5
US$48.00, C$63.50, EUR41.30, £28.70
<www.fontlab.com/printedmanuals/>
I was so apprehensive about watching this movie and believe me I worked really hard to not have to watch it. But then I succumbed and boy was I surprised. Helvetica the movie is so much more than it's title (duh). This is such a charming, entertaining, multi-facetted portrait of the type industry, it's players and a big chunk of design history told in images and interviews with opinionated, professional story tellers, it's riveting. I showed it to my wife and to the students and I believe they enjoyed it as much as I did. And this is where the magic lies. Helvetica the movie is appealing to newbies or people who are not even in a design related field as well as to insiders. Make sure to watch this movie before you watch
Systematisch Slordig.
Director Gary Hustwit
DVD release November 20, 2007
Documentary film 80 minutes (plus over 90 minutes of additional interviews)
English language
DVD formate widescreen
Price $19.99
<www.helveticafilm.com>
This documentary film about Bram de Does records the personal motives and emotions of this very talented Dutch type-designer. Friends, printers, other typographers, professors in book history, and other collagues from three generations tell of their own personal relationship to Bram de Does and their professional relationship and evaluation with his type-designs.
Coraline Korevaar/Otto de Fijter
Woudrichem 2003
Documentary film 53 minutes
Dutch language (english subtitle version available)
DVD Formate full screen
Price € 29.50
<www.nijhoflee.nl>
Helmut Salden (1910-1996) occupies an important place in the rich tradition of 20th century Dutch graphic design. His book designs and especially his dust-jacket and book-binding designs became a trade-mark which brought him great demand from almost all of the major literary publishing houses in the Netherlands from the late fourties up to the nineties. His designs are strong, clear images which rely heavily on typographic elements and only sparingly on the figurative. In his later years he devoted much of his time to the designing and developing of monograms and logos. This beautifully designed monograph - by Harry Sierman, one of his best contemporaries - contains contributions by his late partner Katje Vranken, texts from himself and a short essay by Gerrit Noordzij concerning Salden's monogram and logo designs. It also contains a complete catalogue, listing by publisher all of his book productions and other design projects as well as an index.
Author and editor Katja Vranken Rotterdam 2003
Cloth 192 pages illustrations in color & s/w
Design Harry Sierman
Price € 37.50
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Magazines, type and typography
The newest issue of this international design magazine contains the following articles: Ryan Gander, Loose Associations; Experimental Jet-set, Zang Tang Tumb; Mike Figgis/Stuart Bailey, Rushes from the Dark; James Goggin, Now in Full Colour; Pauline Olowska, Bauhaus Yoga; Esther Johnson, C-JLG-A:Archive/Text/Quotation-Cinéphile/Critic/Cinéaste ; David Reinfurt, A Field Guide; Peter Bil'ak, History of a New Font; Claire Bartoli, Interior View; Dmitri Siegel, Fuck Heroes (I believe in Heroes); Mark Owens, Soft Modernist:Discovering the Book Covers of Fred Troller; and Kapil Kachru, The Typographer's Widow.
Stuart Bailey/Peter Bil’ak
Den Haag 2003
Paperback genäht, 96 pages illustrations in colour & b/w
Price € 10.00
<www.dot-dot-dot.nl>
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Magazines, type and typography
Britons finest design magazine. Eye candy withe a healthy portion of design theory and thorough journalism.
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Magazines, type and typography
This issue contains an article, written by Gerrit Noordzij as well as a rare showing of all his typefaces to date. Being a very Swiss magazine the TM is generally triglot: German, French and Italian. This article is german language only though as they are Noordzij's own words and not editorial writing. The type specimens only however are worth the agro of getting a copy.
Issue No.2, 1994
Pages 9-16
Publisher comedia – die Mediengewerkschaft
Monbijoustrasse 33
3001 Bern
Back issues can be ordered directly from the printer
GDZ AG
Postfach
8041 Zürich
Switzerland
<www.gdz.ch>
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