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Designing with Type, 5th Edition The Essential Guide to Typography

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ISBN-10: 0823014134

ISBN-13: 9780823014132

Edition: 5th 2006 (Revised)

Authors: James Craig, Irene Korol Scala, William Bevington, Irene Korol Scala

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- "An excellent and useful introduction to the subject."--Milton Glaser - First published in 1971, used universally ever since - Access to lessons from distinguished typographers around the world through Web site
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Book details

List price: $24.99
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
Publication date: 5/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 10.94" wide x 8.50" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

James Craig has worked in London as a journalist and as a consultant for almost thirty years. He lives in Covent Garden with his wife and daughter.

James Craigis a renowned author of books on graphic design, includingBasic Typography: A Design Manual. He was the design director of Watson-Guptill Publications for more than twenty-five years; today he teaches typography at The Cooper Union in New York City, where he lives. William Bevington, executive director of Parsons Institute for Information Mapping, New School University. He teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York and lives in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. Irene Koral Scala, a graduate of The Cooper Union, has also studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Design in Jerusalem. She lives in New York City.

Basics of typography
Five classic typefaces
Designing with text type
Designing with display type
Color
Projects
Traditional skills
Type specimens
References and resources