Type Specimens
Title | Type Specimens PDF eBook |
Author | Dori Griffin |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2022-04-07 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1350116599 |
"This richly illustrated book guides readers through four centuries of visual and trade history, equipping them to contextualize the aesthetics and production of typography in a way that is practical, engaging, and relevant to their practice. It is fully illustrated throughout with 200 color images of type specimens and related ephemera, and written for design educators, advanced design students, design practitioners, and type aficionados"--
Support Independent Type
Title | Support Independent Type PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783948440121 |
Fifty Type Specimens From the Collection of Tobias Frere-Jones
Title | Fifty Type Specimens From the Collection of Tobias Frere-Jones PDF eBook |
Author | Anonyme |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-10 |
Genre | Printing |
ISBN | 9781616896447 |
Curated by renowned type designer Tobias Frere-Jones, this collection features fifty postcards drawn from his extraordinary personal collection of type specimen books. These stunning cards feature typography from four countries: the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany.
Type Specimens
Title | Type Specimens PDF eBook |
Author | Dori Griffin |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2021-12-30 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 1350116610 |
Type Specimens introduces readers to the history of typography and printing through a chronological visual tour of the books, posters, and ephemera designed to sell fonts to printers, publishers, and eventually graphic designers. This richly illustrated book guides design educators, advanced design students, design practitioners, and type aficionados through four centuries of visual and trade history, equipping them to contextualize the aesthetics and production of type in a way that is practical, engaging, and relevant to their practice. Fully illustrated throughout with 200 color images of type specimens and related ephemera, the book illuminates the broader history of typography and printing, showing how letterforms and their technologies have evolved over time, inspiring and guiding designers of today.
Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes
Title | Type Specimens of Fossil Fishes PDF eBook |
Author | John Clay Bruner |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2019-01-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0429676557 |
The Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Allberta houses type specimens of fossil fishes. This book is a catalogue of these specimens. Included for each entry is taxonomy, detailed collection locality information, the citation wherein the species was originally described, and a list of individual type specimens. This is the first list ever compiled of the fossil fish types deposited in the collections of the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology (UALVP). This collection contains 88 fish holotypes, 966 fish paratypes, 55 casts of fish holotypes from other museums, and 20 casts of fish paratypes from other museums. Key selling features: List all of the type specimens of fossil fishes currently housed in the collection of the Laboratory of Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Provides details of all 88 holotypes and nearly 1000 paratypes as well as casts of types specimens held in other museum collections. Includes information on unpublished "types" - type specimens of not yet described new species.
Type Specimens of Marine Mollusca Described by P.P. Carpenter from the West Coast (San Diego to British Columbia)
Title | Type Specimens of Marine Mollusca Described by P.P. Carpenter from the West Coast (San Diego to British Columbia) PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Van Winkle Palmer |
Publisher | Geological Society of America |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | Mollusks |
ISBN | 0813710766 |
Digital Imaging of Biological Type Specimens
Title | Digital Imaging of Biological Type Specimens PDF eBook |
Author | Christoph L. Häuser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Image processing |
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