Designing with Type, 5th Edition: The Essential Guide to Typography, authored by James Craig and Irene Korol Scala, is a comprehensive and indispensable resource for typography enthusiasts. With updated content and full-color images, the book covers fundamental principles, historical developments, and practical aspects of typography, emphasizing its importance in conveying meaning and emotions. It explores the role of technology in contemporary typography and delves into the artistry and aesthetics of design, offering valuable guidance on effectively incorporating type in various mediums.
Read MoreThinking With Type is the go-to guide to learning and using typography in visual communication. This book focuses on the essentials like typefaces, typesetting, hierarchy, alignment, and using the grid.
Read MoreGoodtype’s Art of Lettering is a compendium of lettering work from some of the greatest letterer’s on Instagram. With over 280 pages, this book features work, the processes, and essays that showcase what lettering is all about. All of the work included has been submitted to Goodtype by artists and designers from all around the globe.
Read MoreThings I Have Learned in My Life so Far by Stefan Sagmeister is a collection of his own personal maxims that he has accrued throughout his life. Each maxim is constructed into a piece of typographic work, and is separated into its own signature, resulting in a collection of booklets housed in a laser cut slip case that can be interchanged, mixed, and matched to create new cover designs.
Read MoreGrid Systems by Kimberly Elam is an overview and step-by-step guide on organizing typography within a gridded composition. This book contains over 100 visuals ranging between diagrams and design samples that epitomize the vast amount of layouts working with a simple grid can produce. Elam delves into all of the possible combinations one can create with a simple 3x3 grid in order to help design novices understand the importance and variability of the grid.
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