A successor to 'An Atlas of Typeforms', this title includes nearly 75 different types typography in their original metal forms. By including photographs of architectural and vernacular forms of lettering, it explores the correlation between the printed letterform and its parallel form in sculpture, engraving and other public spaces.

Product Description: In the early decades of the twentieth century, European artists, poets, and designers called for the destruction of outdated assumptions about vision and language. Numerous manifestos resulted, demanding new artistic forms. None of these manifestos was more aggressive and poetic, or wider in scope than Filippo Tomasso Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto of 1909...read more

Product Description: This lively and authoritative book explores the influence of the Bauhaus and modernism on typography and book design. Distinguished book designer and author Alan Bartram examines work by such key figures as Max Bill, F. T. Marinetti, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Jan Tschichold, and Paul Rand...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The profound changes in Britain since 1945 have inevitably reflected on the art of publishing. In this work Alan Bartram sets the current publishing scene in the context of the best practice of the last fifty years. While emphasizing that a satisfying book is the result of teamwork between author, editor, designer and printer, Bartram is mainly concerned with its design, and the creative process that ends with a book that is not only elegant, but has high standards of readability...read more

Product Description: The profound changes in British life since 1945 have inevitably been reflected in the world of book publishing. In this book, Alan Bartram sets the current publishing scene in the context of the best practice of the last 50 years...read more