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Typographic Design - Form and Communication
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Typographic Design - Form and Communication Paperback - 2011

by Carter, Rob, Meggs, Philip B., Day, Ben

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  • Title Typographic Design - Form and Communication
  • Author Carter, Rob, Meggs, Philip B., Day, Ben
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Fifth
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 355
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, U.S.A.
  • Date 2011-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4691225-6
  • ISBN 9780470648216 / 047064821X
  • Weight 2.48 lbs (1.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.78 x 8.47 x 0.72 in (27.38 x 21.51 x 1.83 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Graphic design (Typography), DESIGN / Graphic Arts / General
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011017540
  • Dewey Decimal Code 686.224

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About the author

Rob Carter is Professor of Typography and Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University, and has served as a visiting professor at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He has received numerous awards for his work from organizations such as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York Type Directors Club, New York Art Directors Club, Society of Typographic Arts, Creativity, Print regional annual, and I.D. magazine's Annual Design Review. He is the author of American Typography Today, Typographic Design: The Great Typefaces, the five-volume Working with Type series, and Digital Color and Type. He is also coauthor, with Sandra Wheeler, of Meggs: Making Graphic Design History.

The late Ben Day was Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University. He also taught at Boston University and had been a Visiting Designer at the University of Connecticut. His many exhibitions included the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the New York Type Directors Club, and the New York Sculpture Centre. The Boston Society of Printers awarded him a teaching fellowship. He served as a consultant to Bostonia magazine, NASA, and the Fogg Museum, and art directed Handel and Haydn magazine. He was selected for Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

The late Philip Meggs was a designer, educator, and author. He was School of the Arts Research Professor, Communication Arts and Design Department, at Virginia Commonwealth University; visiting faculty at Syracuse University and the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland; and contributing editor to Print magazine. He authored more than a dozen books and 150 articles and papers on design and typography, including a section on graphic design in Encyclopedia Britannica. He was inducted into the Art Directors Hall of Fame and received its Educator's Award for lifetime achievement and significantly shaping the future of the fields of graphic design education and writing. He was posthumously awarded the AIGA Medal for design leadership.

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