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The new typography
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First published in 1928 in Germany and out of print for many years, this text has been recognized as one of the most important statements of modern typographical design.
The new typography
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First published in 1928 in Germany and out of print for many years, this text has been recognized as one of the most important statements of modern typographical design.
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septembre 2006
Words fail me
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This book was originally inspired by the author’s Italian mother and her struggles with the vagaries of the English language. Over the years the author has tried to correct her attempts and explain why the word she has chosen is incorrect, only to be baffled herself by the lack of logic within those explanations. English is full of contradictions and peculiarities (not(...)
juin 2006, London, New York
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This book was originally inspired by the author’s Italian mother and her struggles with the vagaries of the English language. Over the years the author has tried to correct her attempts and explain why the word she has chosen is incorrect, only to be baffled herself by the lack of logic within those explanations. English is full of contradictions and peculiarities (not counting such dull grammatical inconsistencies as ‘i before e except after c’, which are really no fun at all) and hoodwinks us into believing one thing while meaning something quite different. In English, all is not what it seems and with this book the author has brought these illogical oddities to the fore. Questions of spelling, pronunciation or the blatantly nonsensical are illustrated through clever visual representations that are created entirely through artfully manipulated typography. This playful and sometimes hilarious text sorts the homonyms from the heteronyms and introduces the ‘antigram’ (demonstrating how the swift shuffle of certain letters can create words that entirely contradict the first: honestly becomes on the sly, earliest becomes rise late and, fabulously, Elvis = lives!). Monachino goes on to demand an explanation from all those tricky little words that are spelt the same and pronounced the same, but yet have utterly different meanings, while highlighting a few of life`s petty pleonasms and showing off some quite excellent tautologies. A gaggle of one-word oxymorons shines the spotlight on words that harbour contradictory words within them and the final section provides a note on inadvisable hyphenation, which is a useful disco-very, but perhaps not the best place to beg-in.
Josef Müller-Brockmann
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Illustrated with images of the final designs, sketches, production drawings, and unused design drafts from Müller-Brockmann’s archive - and with long captions explaining in detail the design structure and the brief given by the client - this monograph provides a complete visual understanding of Müller-Brockmann’s growth as a graphic designer.
mai 2006, London
Josef Müller-Brockmann
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Illustrated with images of the final designs, sketches, production drawings, and unused design drafts from Müller-Brockmann’s archive - and with long captions explaining in detail the design structure and the brief given by the client - this monograph provides a complete visual understanding of Müller-Brockmann’s growth as a graphic designer.
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"Josef Albers: to Open Eyes" takes the reader through Albers’s life in teaching – from his first years at the Bauhaus, to his 1933 emigration to the United States, where he and his wife Anni became founding members and teachers at the experimental start-up Black Mountain College, and again to his 1950 appointment to head up Yale University’s newly restructured Department of Design.
juin 2006, London / New York
Josef Albers : to open eyes, the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale
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"Josef Albers: to Open Eyes" takes the reader through Albers’s life in teaching – from his first years at the Bauhaus, to his 1933 emigration to the United States, where he and his wife Anni became founding members and teachers at the experimental start-up Black Mountain College, and again to his 1950 appointment to head up Yale University’s newly restructured Department of Design.
Sagmeister: Made you look
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Another self-indulgent design monograph is Stefan Sagmeister's hand-scrawled subtitle for the first book about his work, Made You Look. This, and the book's clear red case and silver-gilded pages, seem contrary to the raw, handwritten style he is known for, already setting us up for a wild and very personal ride through almost the entire corpus of the 39-year-old(...)
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Another self-indulgent design monograph is Stefan Sagmeister's hand-scrawled subtitle for the first book about his work, Made You Look. This, and the book's clear red case and silver-gilded pages, seem contrary to the raw, handwritten style he is known for, already setting us up for a wild and very personal ride through almost the entire corpus of the 39-year-old designer's work. Sagmeister once scratched words into his skin for his own lecture poster at Cranbrook, and this is the book version--sometimes enlightening, sometimes embarrassing, and ultimately touching. The story is a conversation between Peter Hall's text and Sagmeister's handwritten commentary, a perfect and believable device for an absorbing dialogue.
Karel Martens: Small prints
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This artist’s publication contains a sequence of unique letterpress monoprints, made by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens between 2014 and 2022. The prints, which are both highly geometric and brightly coloured, are reproduced in the book at their actual size. Textual elements accent the various abstract shapes and repetitions on almost every page. ‘Small Prints’ is(...)
Karel Martens: Small prints
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This artist’s publication contains a sequence of unique letterpress monoprints, made by Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens between 2014 and 2022. The prints, which are both highly geometric and brightly coloured, are reproduced in the book at their actual size. Textual elements accent the various abstract shapes and repetitions on almost every page. ‘Small Prints’ is available in two different cover versions, which itself is the result of a printing experiment. By printing the contents of the book in three layers on a single print sheet, which was then cut and folded, variations in the cover emerged.
Direct, accessible et futé
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Michael Bierut est l'une des personnalités les plus notables du graphisme contemporain aux États-Unis, mais son travail et ses écrits restent mal connus en France. Le présent ouvrage rassemble douze articles qu'il a publiés entre 1992 et 2013 – la plupart sur le site Design Observer, dont il fut l'un des fondateurs –, et dont le propos dessine les contours d'un ethos(...)
décembre 2022
Direct, accessible et futé
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Michael Bierut est l'une des personnalités les plus notables du graphisme contemporain aux États-Unis, mais son travail et ses écrits restent mal connus en France. Le présent ouvrage rassemble douze articles qu'il a publiés entre 1992 et 2013 – la plupart sur le site Design Observer, dont il fut l'un des fondateurs –, et dont le propos dessine les contours d'un ethos professionnel original, entre modernisme pragmatique et contextualisme joueur. Ils sont complétés d'une sélection des projets les plus significatifs menés par Michael Bierut tout au long d'une carrière s'étendant sur plus de quatre décennies. Cette première publication en français est riche d'enseignements éthiques et pragmatiques qui en font une source d'inspiration essentielle pour les praticiens comme pour les étudiants en design graphique.
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Le patronyme du typographe français Claude Garamond (v. 1510–1561) est aujourd'hui accolé à plusieurs dizaines de caractères typographiques numériques d'apparence pourtant très dissemblable. De la Renaissance à l'ère contemporaine, cet ouvrage s'attache à décrire et à expliciter les sources de ce qu'il faut bien appeler l'« imbroglio Garamond », au sein duquel le prestige(...)
De quoi Garamond est-il le nom ?
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Le patronyme du typographe français Claude Garamond (v. 1510–1561) est aujourd'hui accolé à plusieurs dizaines de caractères typographiques numériques d'apparence pourtant très dissemblable. De la Renaissance à l'ère contemporaine, cet ouvrage s'attache à décrire et à expliciter les sources de ce qu'il faut bien appeler l'« imbroglio Garamond », au sein duquel le prestige du nom semble avoir, depuis longtemps, remplacé la connaissance des formes. Les enjeux culturels, esthétiques, économiques et techniques qu'il soulève intéresseront tous ceux pour qui la typographie constitue un champ essentiel d'expertise et de pratique professionnelles.
Karel Martens: Love letters
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''Love Letters'' is a selection of 46 envelopes for the letters that Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens sent to his love, Lous, between 1962 and 1963. The envelopes were all manually crafted using printing ink and a spoon to create the pattern. They were printed during his military service, when he was stationed in the drawing room of the Welfare Service at the Prins(...)
Karel Martens: Love letters
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''Love Letters'' is a selection of 46 envelopes for the letters that Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens sent to his love, Lous, between 1962 and 1963. The envelopes were all manually crafted using printing ink and a spoon to create the pattern. They were printed during his military service, when he was stationed in the drawing room of the Welfare Service at the Prins Hendrik Barracks. Among other things, there he was tasked with designing a poster titled “Don’t croak about military service matters, the enemy is listening”.
Paul Cox, n.é.
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Né en 1959, Paul Cox est un graphiste et artiste atypique qui compte parmi les créateurs majeurs de son époque. Parallèlement à la peinture, il produit des livres pour les enfants, des affiches, des illustrations de presse, des logos, et tant d’autres objets. Il obtiendra un prix à la Foire internationale de Bologne en 1999, pour son livre « Histoire de l’art ». Dans(...)
Paul Cox, n.é.
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Né en 1959, Paul Cox est un graphiste et artiste atypique qui compte parmi les créateurs majeurs de son époque. Parallèlement à la peinture, il produit des livres pour les enfants, des affiches, des illustrations de presse, des logos, et tant d’autres objets. Il obtiendra un prix à la Foire internationale de Bologne en 1999, pour son livre « Histoire de l’art ». Dans cette monographie éponyme, il propose une sélection de ses travaux, des scénographies d’exposition à la communication culturelle, en passant par ses croquis quotidiens ou encore ses expérimentations autour des formes et des couleurs. Au delà du catalogue, il commente l’évolution de son œuvre et livre ses maîtres, ses réflexions et recherches graphiques. Un livre de référence pour tout ceux qui s’intéressent au design et à l’illustration.