A Blip in the Continuum - Softcover

Williams, Robin; Tollett, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566091888 ISBN 13: 9781566091886

Publisher: Peachpit Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Book by Williams, Robin

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Grunge" fonts - crazy typefaces - can be seen everywhere these days, from magazines to advertising materials. It's the hot topic in design circles, creating debate among those who use this new, lively, uninhibited typography and those who eschew it, believing that readability should be the main goal of type. A Blip in the continuum is the first book to spotlight and celebrate this revolutionary aesthetic. It is written by award-winning author Robin Williams, who regularly breaks rules not just in her design, but in the computer books she writes. Few authors have a following equal to hers both within the professional typographic community and among the wider computer-using public.

Throughout the book, quotes about type and design are set in a range of grunge fonts, using rule-flaunting layouts. Each layout contains a full-color illustration created with the Painter software program. The off-the-wall illustrations form a bridge to the typography, enhancing the reader's understanding of this new graphic movement. More than 100 of the best new grunge fonts are featured in the book, which is for graphic designers, illustrators, and computer users of every level who want to understand grunge typography at the same time they feast on this eye-popping tour of design's cutting edge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peachpit Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1566091888
• ISBN 13: 9781566091886
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 95
• Illustrator: Tollett John