CONTENTS
From the origins of writing to Gutenberg's invention of movable type
Typography from Gutenberg to the nineteenth century
The nineteenth century and the Industrial Revolution
Typography in the twentieth century
A new century and millennium begin
Historical classification of typefaces
Basic principles of legibility
Legibility and digital typography
7 The Evolution of Typographic Technology
Legibility factors for on-screen typography
9 Typography in Time and Motion
Using type in time-based media
10 Case Studies in Typographic Design
Integrating type and image in poster design
The U.S. National Park Service Unigrid system
Book design: VAS: An Opera in Flatland
Buenos Aires Underground (Subte)
Information design: Metropolitan World Atlas
A typographic program for the 17th Street Farmers' Market
11 Typographic Design Education
Comparative relationships: type and image
Sequential typographic forms in space
Typography and image transformations
Unity of form and communication
Syntactic explorations using onomatopoeic terms
Visual structure motion studies
Experimental compositions with found typography
Directional poster: from your house to the university
Visual organization and grid structures
Observing systems in our surroundings
Blending Latin and non-Latin typographic forms
Type and image in the third dimension
Typezine: my favorite typeface
Experimental typographic system
Expressive typography: form amplifies message
Form and counterform, scale and proportion: “Ne var, ne yok?”
Exploring typographic permutations
Exploring typographic transformation