New in paperback, "Typography Workbook" is part of Rockport's popular Workbook series of practical and inspirational workbooks that cover all the fundamental areas of the graphic design business. This book presents an abundance of information on type, which is the cornerstone of graphic design, both succinctly and to the point, so that designers can get the information they need quickly and easily. Whereas many other books on type are either very technical or showcase oriented, this book offers ideas and inspiration through hundreds of real-life projects showing successful, well-crafted usage of type. The book also offers a variety of other content, including choosing fonts, sizes and colours, as well as incorporating text and illustrations and avoiding common mistakes in text usage. The book is accessible and informative, and will provide its readers with practical as well as inspirational advice.
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Timothy Samara was trained as a graphic designer at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He currently teaches typography and visual communication at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is the author of Making and Breaking the Grid. He lives in New York, USA.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
By R. Magee
Format:Paperback
I have to admit this book surpassed my expectations. Delving into everything from the construciton of single typographical characters and their components, through informative examples and analysis of the effect and importance oftracking, weight, leading through to type families, paragraphing, experimental tyography this book has it all. As a freelance designer and lecturer in graphic design i would highly recommend this book to all students studying graphic design and any professional that enjoys working with type. A very handy and vast resource!
infact don't even read about this book, just buy it...worth its weight in plutonium!!
infact don't even read about this book, just buy it...worth its weight in plutonium!!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By pkx166h
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have a few 'Typographic' books on my shelves and this one isn't up there, no matter the other reviews. While technically it is about Typography, it is more concerned with Graphic Design and Page Layout than just being a pure Typography book. Nothing particularly wrong in that, but I think it is a slightly disingenuous title because of that. You could easily have put 'how to layout objects on a page that happened to be made up of letters' and you'd still be correct.
The book is nice and glossy but like a lot of 'design' books suffers the usual fundamental failing of being more style over content. On face value (i.e. cursory flicking through) the book is very colourful, full of 'rich' and 'lively' examples and a lot of work has obviously gone into it; but as a book to 'work' from (i.e. the 'workbook' aspect in the title) it leaves a lot to be desired.
I sat down to read this and after about 10 minutes I had to stop and give my eyes a break - I don't know about you but I struggle to read 10/11 point type in cyan printed on a black (full bleed) page or have to squint to distinguish white out lettering across two primary colours when this is trying to explain a concept or idea. This is design for design's sake and fails in the fundamental requirement of getting your message across, too many colours, text too small in many places, glossy pages do not make good reading especially when reading by overhead lights. A lot of work has gone into this evidently, but not enough about Typography and too much about how many colours/frames/layouts we can get on 2 pages.
The book is nice and glossy but like a lot of 'design' books suffers the usual fundamental failing of being more style over content. On face value (i.e. cursory flicking through) the book is very colourful, full of 'rich' and 'lively' examples and a lot of work has obviously gone into it; but as a book to 'work' from (i.e. the 'workbook' aspect in the title) it leaves a lot to be desired.
I sat down to read this and after about 10 minutes I had to stop and give my eyes a break - I don't know about you but I struggle to read 10/11 point type in cyan printed on a black (full bleed) page or have to squint to distinguish white out lettering across two primary colours when this is trying to explain a concept or idea. This is design for design's sake and fails in the fundamental requirement of getting your message across, too many colours, text too small in many places, glossy pages do not make good reading especially when reading by overhead lights. A lot of work has gone into this evidently, but not enough about Typography and too much about how many colours/frames/layouts we can get on 2 pages.
By Kristina
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Book is great for beginners or for font lovers.
Texts and illustrations provide useful information and make it all finally clear. A must-have in young Graphic Designer's bookshelf.
Texts and illustrations provide useful information and make it all finally clear. A must-have in young Graphic Designer's bookshelf.
By Eva
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The book is quite interesting, for anybody who likes to read about fonts. Good for absolute begginers but don't expect it to be from A to Z guide. The comment: 'Provides an at-a-glance reference guide for graphic designers on every aspect of typography' is very true.
It gives short description with a lot of examples. I like it.
It gives short description with a lot of examples. I like it.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A really useful book. A practical guide to achieving excellence in presentation by "illustrating" the message by the use of text.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Lily
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
My daughter is studying graphic design, concentrating on typography & she finds this book very informative & helpful. Well set out. Recommended
4 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I purchased this book for my son who is a graphic designer as a birthday present, so I really cannot comment on how useful it is. However I am told that it is 'one' of the reference books to have and he is delighted with it.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Typography workbook: a real world guide to using type in graphic design. I'm afraid I cant say a lot about this book as it was for my son who is studying interactive design at Lincoln Uni. I chose this book having read other reviews and it seems they were very helpful as my son is over the moon with the book. Since starting uni he has really got into typography and has found the book useful and inspiring.
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