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Thinking with type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students by Ellen Lupton
4.5
This was such an interesting compendium of information! I knew most of these things already, but this past month me and a friend wrote and printed a silly story for another friend, and all the stuff I studied for my history of the book and publishing modules came back with a vengeance - oh, to be a youngster thats still had hope for an interesting future! The end/beginning of the year is a moment of reflection for everyone, and as every year passes on by I always reflect on how boring my life turned out to be - so going back to these old interests just by reading about them will have to do for lack of anything else.
The text is divided in neat little sections regarding every aspect of the page, starting from the birth of calligraphy styles and the typefaces rhey inspired, up until the use of the space in a page and the editing process. The information is very basic, but the presence of clear (and sometimes funny) examplea, as well as further recommendations for each specific topic, make it a great basis to learn a new skill: how to use a blank page to the best of your abilities and how to think like a graphic designer.
I accessed a scanned edition of the book on the Open Library (which is a tool I advise all of you to use - there are a lot of books, some of them even very popular contemporary bestsellers! It's free, but you can choose to donate something, or even buy a copy of a book to donate to the library); it was a great choice because I don't think an epub version would have been easy to read - there are a lot of images, as I expected from a book about graphic design regarding the printed word. But if you can, I'm sure a physical copy is the best way to appreciate the book!
The text is divided in neat little sections regarding every aspect of the page, starting from the birth of calligraphy styles and the typefaces rhey inspired, up until the use of the space in a page and the editing process. The information is very basic, but the presence of clear (and sometimes funny) examplea, as well as further recommendations for each specific topic, make it a great basis to learn a new skill: how to use a blank page to the best of your abilities and how to think like a graphic designer.
I accessed a scanned edition of the book on the Open Library (which is a tool I advise all of you to use - there are a lot of books, some of them even very popular contemporary bestsellers! It's free, but you can choose to donate something, or even buy a copy of a book to donate to the library); it was a great choice because I don't think an epub version would have been easy to read - there are a lot of images, as I expected from a book about graphic design regarding the printed word. But if you can, I'm sure a physical copy is the best way to appreciate the book!