Product Description
Using typography for time-based media is very different from designing type for the printed page. This is a practical book for students and designers working in film, video, television, interactive media and web design. It covers composition, kinetics, legibility, image, sound and message.
About the Author
Jeff Bellantoni is Assistant Professor of Communication Design at the University of Connecticut, where he coordinates the communication design program and recently received a University Achievement Award. He is coauthor of
Type in Motion: Innovations in Digital Graphics (Thames and Hudson, 1999).
Matt Woolman is Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he is also director of the Center for Design Studies. He is coauthor of Type in Motion: Innovations in Digital Graphics (Thames and Hudson, 1999), author of Seeing Sound: Experimentations in Contemporary Music Graphics (Thames and Hudson, 2000), and author and illustrator of A Type Detective Story: The Crime Scene (RotoVision, 1997). His work has been reproduced in PRINT, Graphis, and editions 1 and 2 of the Working with Computer Type series (RotoVision).
In 1995 Jeff and Matt formed -ization, a communication design and media group specializing in the process of doing and making. Inquiries: studio@ization.com.
The Digital Media Design series from RotoVision includes: Moving Type: Designing for Time and Space, Hypergraphics, Color & Type for the Screen, and Mapping Websites.