New Vintage Type
Classic Fonts for the Digital Age
Steven Heller
Gail Anderson
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Typography remains the bedrock of graphic design and, while the art of lettering is evolving, contemporary designers still look to the past for inspiration.
New Vintage Type is a critical survey of how modern artwork uses old type to evoke another time and place.
Organized by period, the book features hundreds of lively examples that prove that our type heritage has a place in the colourful graphic world of today: Victorian, Woodtype, Art Deco, Modern Movement, Eccentric Movement …
Each section features a brief essay, introducing historical features of the typefaces and considering what attributes make them relevant for a range of contemporary situations.
Steven Heller and Gail Anderson’s insightful and entertaining texts and inspirational graphic frames make this the ultimate visual inspiration for students, practitioners and typophiles.
Steven Heller is the co-chair of the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer as Author program in New York City, co-founder of MFA in Design Criticism, and editor of VOICE: AIGA Journal of Design. Gail Anderson is the Creative Director of Design at SpotCo Advertising agency in New York, and teaches in the School of Visual Arts MFA Designer as Author program.
Also of interest:
Type Selector: The User-Friendly Font Swatch
Creative Type: A Sourcebook of Classic and
Contemporary Letterforms
Handwritten: Expressive Lettering in the Digital Age
by Steven Heller |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500241376 | | ISBN-13 978-0500241370 | | | | 25.0 x 25.0 cm | | Hardback | | 192pp | | 400 illustrations, 400 in colour | | First published 2007 | | | | £24.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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