TYPEFORMS: A HISTORY.

BARTRAM, Alan.

ISBN 10: 1584562226 / ISBN 13: 9781584562221

Published by The British Library Press, London, 2007

About this Item

4to. Pp: v, 128. First Edition, First printing. Grey dust jacket with colour illustration and red lettering. Publisher's grey buckram boards lettered in white at spine. Black and white illustrations.ISBN: 9781584562221 Very good in very good dust jacket. Some dark marks at front free end paper. Crease to bottom edge of dust jacket at rear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: TYPEFORMS: A HISTORY.
• Publisher: The British Library Press, London
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584562226
• ISBN 13: 9781584562221
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

About this title

Synopsis

This book is the long-awaited successor to the classic An Atlas of Typeforms, the great visually-led history of type that Alan Bartram and James Sutton produced in 1968. Much has changed in the last 40 years, not least the teaching of typography and the means by which it is created. Because current design methods do not require the drawing and tracing of letterforms in order to produce layouts, we have lost our close connection with them. Few understand their history, their appearance, how and why they have developed as they have.
Nearly 75 different types are shown in their original metal forms, just as they were in the Atlas of Typeforms. But an entirely new feature is the author's attempt to place the types in their historical context. By including photographs of contemporary inscriptions on buildings and monuments, Alan Bartram explores the relationship between printed and architectural letterforms and their parallel course from the Renaissance until Victorian times.
The opportunities offered for graphic and type designers in the digital age are greater than ever before. But without an understanding of the visual structure of letterforms and some knowledge of their fascinating history, designers cannot fully exploit the potential of type. In this book, the author Bartram educates us in these critical areas.

About the Author

Alan Bartram has written many books on design including Five Hundred Years of Book Design (2001); Bauhaus, Modernism and the Illustrated Book (2004)and Futurist Typography and the Illustrated Book (2005), all published by the British Library.