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Title

The education of a typographer / edited by Steven Heller.

Publication

New York : Allworth Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Heller, Steven

Description

x, 261 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Exploring the methods for teaching and learning typography, this book features more than 40 essays from top experts and educators in typography today. These essays run the gamut from introducing the themes of type and typography to various complex and rare strategies for learning.

Subject

• Graphic design (Typography) > Study and teaching
• Type and type-founding > Study and teaching

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: Teaching typographic fluency / Steven Heller -- Section one: Teaching type -- An introduction to typography for students of graphic design / Chuck Byrne -- Unlearned typography / Allan Haley -- Teaching the parameters / Paul Shaw -- The pressure to be branche / Leslie Becker -- What I have learned about typography. What I teach / Denise Gonzales Crisp -- Typography: The complete education / Laura Chessin -- Voice / Hank Richardson -- Just looking / Laurie Szujewska -- With thanks to Leonard Jay: A typographic education / Caroline Archer -- The list / Geoffry Fried -- Teaching typography: Integrating the old and the new / Introduced and compiled by Claire Hartten -- True knowledge derives from knowing how to see / Huub Koch -- Concerns for education in today's typographic universe / Michael Schmidt -- Section Two: Traditions and conventions -- What is a letter? / Johanna Drucker -- Fine typography: Is it relevant? How can it be taught? / Terry Irwin -- The "crystal goblet" as a teaching tool / Shelley Gruendler -- Convention and creativity in typography / David Jury -- Back to basics: Stopping sloppy typography / John D. Berry -- The language of letters / Max Kisman -- Type casting / Steven Brower -- My backward step to lettering / Art Chantry.
• Section three: Typographic narratives -- The value of the narrative in the education of a typographer / Chris Myers -- The letter as such: Aleksei Kruchenykh as closet typographer / Jared Ash -- Alef-Beit: A typographic journey / Martin Mendelsberg -- Charting a course for Arabic typography / Tarek Atrissi. Section four: Digital literacy -- Digital type decade / Emily King -- Learning curves: teaching typography with the computer / Katherine McCoy -- The newness in the new typography / Teal Triggs -- Hearing type / Frank Armstrong -- Section five: Type dialogues -- How to see / Doyald Young -- If it's good it touches me / Stefan Sagmeister -- Kerning at twenty paces / Michael Johnson -- Type is for reading / Jeffrey Keedy -- Negative space / Keith Godard -- Attention to detail / Nick Bell -- The stroke of a pen / Jonathan Barnbrook -- Using and abusing / Ed Fella.
• Section six: Syllabi and projects -- Introduction to typography / Instructor: James Craig -- Type one / Instructors: Martha Scotford and Tony Brock -- Type and graphic design / Instructor: Joseph Coates -- Experimental typography / Instructor: Pablo A. Medina -- Visual literacy / Instructor: Audrey Bennett.

ISBN

1581153481 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004002396

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library