Typography & Lettering

Learn the history and techniques of hand lettering from a renowned design studio. This practical and visual guide features exercises, case studies,...

A classic and essential text for designers since 2009, Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids just got better with a fresh explor...

The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton-revised and expanded to include new and additional voic...

The twentieth century saw many developments in printing technology, which in turn influenced the way typefaces were designed and manufactured. At t...

Typography broken down into its most basic (and beautiful) forms to reveal the inherent voice within each shape.Inherent is a collection of concret...

In 1948, the noted book designer and Purdue alumnus Bruce Rogers wrote a book that documented and illustrated his creation of the Centaur typeface....

Roughly fifteen years after Gutenberg printed the first substantial book in Mainz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universa...

Probably no book designer of the twentieth century has had more written about him, his work, or his life than Bruce Rogers. He was, as his primary ...

Today, the book and type designer Frederic Warde is chiefly remembered for his collaboration with Stanley Morison, (designer of the Times New Roman...

The Maintenant series, established in 2008, explores themes of politics, humanity, philosophy, and current concerns from an antiwar, anarchic (and ...

The most comprehensive overview of advertising design strategies on the market today! This unique, comprehensive overview of advertising design str...

Designed in 1957, the Helvetica font is an icon of Swiss graphic design, which was a model of sober, functional communication throughout the world ...

Every day, new artefacts related to the Bauhaus surface online, and with the 100th anniversary of the school, the number is reaching a peak. Surfin...

In MAINTENANT 18, contemporary dada writers and artists from around the world redistribute a wealth of new ideas, to shape public opinion using the...

Illuminated addresses were at their most popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They are books, scrolls or certificates pres...