Posts Tagged ‘typography’

  • ‘Typography exists to honor content’

    Professor John Maeda’s course on Digital Typography begins on a Tuesday in the Fall of 1997 at MIT. Before getting deep into the rendering of movable type through PostScript and JavaScript, Maeda insists his 15 select students read the course’s only set text: Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style. 
    The Elements of Typographic Style
    Robert Bringhurst
    Design, [...]

  • Reading List update

    Envisioning Information
    Edward R. Tufte
    Experience Design, Graphic Design 

    Part of a series of beautifully produced Tufte publications that includes The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and Visual Explanations, these books are essential reading for anyone planning to building something handsome, information rich and easy to use. 
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    Raster Systeme: Grid Systems in Graphic Design
    Josef Muller-Brockmann
    Graphic Design, Experience Design

    One of the best books on layout and grids [...]