Designer's Guide to Fonts Symbols & Icons

Nick Greco and Kathleen Ziegler showcase the most exciting graphic symbols, icons, elements and graphic pictograms in design today--just the thing to quench the creative thirst of digital designers, graphics artists, new media artisans and typographers who use symbols and icons as an aesthetic adjunct of their creativity. To compile such an incredible collection, the editors visited the hottest online spots worldwide to bring readers the latest from notable designers and foundries such as {T-26}, @Rebels, +ISM, Cool Fonts, Émigré, FontBoy, Fountain, GarageFonts, International Typeface Corporation, Lunchbox, Phil's Fonts, Psy/Ops, Shift and XplicitFonts. In doing so, they found the most innovative and refreshing symbols, icons, dingbats and elements. Each spread reveals the exact Internet address along with electrifying examples of graphic design applications.

Kathleen Ziegler and Nick Greco are the principals of Dimensional Illustrators, Inc. which they founded to promote three-dimensional illustration in advertising and publishing. They work in Southampton, Pennsylvania and give lectures throughout the United States. They have also co-authored several books including More Paper Sculpture, Digital Focus and The Designer's Guide to Webtype.