Main entry:

Friedl, Friedrich, author.

Title & Author:

Typography : an Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History / by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott, and Bernard Stein.

Publication:

New York : Black Dog & Leventhal : Distributed by Workman Pub. Co., [1998]
©1998

Description:

592 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-592) and index.
The chronology: Multistylistic typography; Encyclopedic typography; New Wave; New functionalism; Punk typography; Pop and psychedelia; Experimental typography; Fluxus; Functional typography; Pictorial typography; International typographic style; traditional typography; 'elementare typographie'; Individual written form; Art Deco; Expressionism; Constructivism; Dada; Futurism; Informative functionalism; Art Nouveau; The Arts and Crafts movement; Historicism; Classicism; Baroque; Renaissance; The Gothic period; The Middle Ages and Romanesque; Rome and the early Middle Ages; Phoenicia and Greece; Islam; China and the Indus valley; Egypt; Mesopotamis/Sumer -- The persons and the institutions-who -- Additional information to the captions in the "who" section -- The tools: The hand-ax; Brush; Calamus or reed pen; Fishbone; Chisel; Stylus; Pen; Movable type; Compasses; Typewriter; Light analog filmsetting; Computers: digital filmsetting -- Typefaces: fonts illustrated and mentioned -- Selected bibliography.
Text in English, French, and German.

Summary:

-- This book is the most detailed and comprehensive survey and history of typography and alphabets ever undertaken. It delineates an alphabetic history of our world civilization.-- Packed with information and 3,500 illustrations in full-color and black-&-white, it surveys the history of type design, type development and techniques, and chronicles the styles and fashions of letters on a page, from the origins of writing to the present day.-- It presents and reviews over 1,000 different typographers, designers, calligraphers, and artists as well as inventors, scholars, and theorists who have left their distinctive mark.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

1579120237
9781579120238

Subject:

Type and type-founding Encyclopedias.
Printing Encyclopedias.
Type designers Encyclopedias.
Caractères d'imprimerie Encyclopédies.
Imprimerie Encyclopédies.
Lettristes Encyclopédies.
Caractères d'imprimerie Dictionnaires français.
Imprimerie Dictionnaires français.
Lettristes Dictionnaires français.
Printing
Type and type-founding
Type designers
Caractère typographique.
Imprimerie.
Lettriste.
Typographie.

Form/genre:

English-French-German language edition Nonfiction.
English-German-French language edition Nonfiction.
French-English-German language edition Nonfiction.
French-German-English language edition Nonfiction.
German-English-French language edition Nonfiction.
German-French-English language edition Nonfiction.
Encyclopedias.
encyclopedias.
Books.
Encyclopédies.

Added entries:

Ott, Nicolaus, author.
Stein, Bernard, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 254643
Call No.: Z250.A2 F7 1998
Status: Available