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A leading voice of the modernist movement, Jan Tschichold oversaw the redesign of the Penguin and Pelican paperbacks in the late 1940s and devised for them a standardized set of typographic rules. The classical type designs of his late career qualify him as perhaps the first typographic postmodernist. Active Literature, an in-depth study of Tschichold's modernist period, is based on extensive archival research that uncovered a wealth of new photographs of his design work. […]

This lovely, well-written book is concerned foremost with creating beautiful typography and is essential for professionals who regularly work with typographic designs. Author Robert Bringhurst writes about the following typographical topics: designing with the correct typeface; striving for rhythm, proportion, and harmony; choosing and combining type; designing pages; using section heads, subheads, footnotes, and tables; applying kerning and other type [...]

Emil Ruder’s Typographie is the timeless textbook from which generations of typographers and graphic designers have learned their fundamentals. Ruder, one of the great twentieth-century typographers, was a pioneer who abandoned the conventional rules of typography, replacing them with new rules that satisfied the requirements of his new typography. Now in its sixth printing, this [...]

In this long-awaited re-release of the original edition, Josef Müller-Brockmann explores the nature and meaning of the design elements of typography, drawing, photography in advertising. This serves as an important visual tool that will give open-minded designers a worthwhile survey of the fundamental problems of design. Also, for educators, it illustrates the practical results of [...]