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grid systems in graphic design

josef muller-brockmann

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graphic design manual: principles and practice

armin hofmann

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a type primer

john kane

The author believes that the only way to recognise successful typography is through informed, direct observation. It takes time, trial and error to know what works. This book provides a practical guide for beginners, presenting the basic principles and applications of typography with a series of exercises that help readers reach the point where they can understand and demonstrate the basic principles of typography.

http://www.laurenceking.com/

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Detail in typography discusses in simple steps the factors that make text easy to read and good to look at. Hochuli starts by describing what we know about the reading process. Then he looks at the letters of the Latin alphabet: what is good form in letters? How has script and type developed? How do letters work as visual elements? He goes on to discuss words: how do they hang together? How do we recognize them? Next, he looks at lines of words, and thus at the space between words. Also here he considers punctutation as an element of the line. Then there is the question of the space between lines (‘leading’): what are the factors there? The book is rounded off with a look at typefaces and their properties.

Detail in typography, designed by its author, is printed and bound in Switzerland to the best standards. It provides, in its own form and manufacture, a demonstration of how books can be made.

http://www.hyphenpress.co.uk/

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following right after the digital pdf publication by massimo vignelli—the vignelli canon, here comes the hard copy, full version of the pdf.

vignelli from a to z

by massimo vignelli

wing's reading list 1

as promised in the studio, i will be posting a list of reading materials for you all.

this is definitely not the ultimate reading list for every practicing designers but rather a list that is strongly influencing my typographic design/design practice; and i would like to share with you.

to kick start the series of post, is a free digital copy issued by the designer himself—massimo vignelli. apart form the content, the structure of this pdf publication is also a very good example of the two up coming projects of the course.

without a doubt, one of my design heros.

available for downloading from www.vignelli.com or from our own google group, under files.

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