Logo, Font & Lettering Bible

Logo, Font & Lettering Bible
Author: Leslie Cabarga
Publisher: North Light Books
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2004-02-15
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This book is a hands-on guide to the entire process of making logos and fonts and even icons, all of which, essentially, start with the ability to draw letterforms. The intent of the book, in fact, is to enable the user to end reliance on "OPF" (other people's fonts) and learn to draw your own custom logos, fonts and lettering! Logo, Font & Lettering Bible is unique in that it teaches you how to create logos and fonts from scratch using traditional tools as well as the computer programs Adobe Illustrator and Fontographer (plus a bit about FontLab). The book provides all the traditional rules and tips about letter formation relating to proportion, shaping, balance, spacing, composition and actually teaches five different methods of drawing letters on computer using bezier curves. There has never been a book like this one that goes into so much detail about drawing letters and takes such a fun and irreverent approach while doing so. The book is also full of inspiration and analysis of tons of great examples of vintage and current lettering from old manuscripts to graffiti. Logo, Font & Lettering Bible also shows you how to create fancy drop shadows and other type effects. And finally, the last section provides straight talk on the business of being a logo and font designer, from advertising your work and pricing to dealing with difficult clients (aren't they all?).

Fonts & Logos

Fonts & Logos
Author: Doyald Young
Publisher: Delphi Pub
Total Pages: 385
Release: 1999
Genre: Lettering.
ISBN: 9780967331607

Just My Type

Just My Type
Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2010-10-21
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1847652921

Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.

The Big Book of 5,000 Fonts

The Big Book of 5,000 Fonts
Author: David E. Carter
Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780823004898

That’s where this valuable book comes in. It features over 5,000 different fonts - not only the standard ones like Bodoni, Cheltenham, and Century, but also the entire collections of the smaller font foundries that produce innovative, cutting-edge type de

White Space is Not Your Enemy

White Space is Not Your Enemy
Author: Kim Golombisky
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1136080937

Designing a brochure or web site without an art background? Step away from the computer and read this breezy introduction to visual communications first. Written for non-designers, White Space is Not Your Enemy is a practical graphic design and layout text introducing the concepts and practices necessary for producing effective visual communications across a variety of formats, from print to Web. This beautifully illustrated, full-color book covers the basics to help you develop your eye and produce attractive work. Topics include: * The basics of effective design that communicates its intended message * Pre-design planning * 13 Layout Sins to avoid * Basic typography * Working with color * Storyboarding for video, Web, and presentions * Information graphics * Mini Art School--all the basics in one chapter * Outputting your work

White Space is Not Your Enemy

White Space is Not Your Enemy
Author: Rebecca Hagen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0240824148

Designing a website or brochure without an art background? Then step away from the computer and read this engaging, conversational introduction to visual communications first. Written for the beginner, White Space is Not Your Enemy, Second Edition, is a practical graphic design and layout guide that introduces the concepts and practices necessary for producing effective visual communication across a variety of formats--from web to print. This beautifully illustrated, full-color book covers all of the basics to help you develop your eye and produce evocative designs that work. Topics include: What is design? Pre-design research and brainstorming. The "works-every-time layout" and "13 layout sins." The elements and principles of design. Layouts for impact. Getting along with type. Choosing and using color. Working with photos and illustrations. Intros to infographics, storyboarding and multimedia components. Output for the web and print. Visit www.whitespacedesignbook.com for additional supporting materials.

Cyberpl@y

Cyberpl@y
Author: Brenda Danet
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000180921

The Internet is changing the way we communicate. As a cross between letter-writing and conversation, email has altered traditional letter-writing conventions. Websites and chat rooms have made visual aspects of written communication of greater importance, arguably, than ever before. New communication codes continue to evolve with unprecedented speed. This book explores playfulness and artfulness in digital writing and communication and anwers penetrating questions about this new medium. Under what conditions do old letter-writing norms continue to be important, even in email? Digital greetings are changing the way we celebrate special occasions and public holidays, but will they take the place of paper postcards and greeting cards? The author also looks at how new art forms, such as virtual theatre, ASCII art, and digital folk art on IRC, are flourishing, and how many people collect and display digital fonts on handsome Websites, or even design their own. Intended as a time capsule documenting developments online in the mid- to late 1990s, when the Internet became a mass medium, this book treats the computer as an expressive instrument fostering new forms of creativity and popular culture.

Precision Type Font Reference Guide

Precision Type Font Reference Guide
Author: Jeff Level
Publisher:
Total Pages: 710
Release: 1995
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Typography is one of the most important graphic elements in any document. This guide contains the widest variety of font software available from leading developers--Adobe Systems, Agfa, Bitstream, Letraset, Linotype, Monotype, and many others. There is also a comprehensive index, which lists each font by name with its type foundries.

Lord of the Logos

Lord of the Logos
Author: Christophe Szpajdel
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Gothic type
ISBN: 9783899552829

This book is a collection of work by Christophe Szpajdel, an artist whose fans in the underground black metal community worship him as the Lord of the Logos. It includes hundreds of powerful logos, each of which captures the force of this musical genre anew. Through his surprising use of aesthetic influences such as art deco and nature, Szpajdel has brought a new dynamic into the gothic visuality of heavy metal. This publication, which is done in the style of a black prayerbook, shows not only how he has succeeded in leaving his own visual mark on this music, but how he has also expanded the canon of forms it uses.

Made by James

Made by James
Author: James Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0760371490

In Made by James, top graphic designer James Martin shares techniques, information, and ideas to help you become a better logo designer.