This course will cover the materials and manufacture of wood type, the design of wood type, including the influence of signwriting and stone lettering, and the description of identification of …
This course will provide a general overview of the history of typography and related letterforms in the West from the fifteenth century to the present day. It will cover description …
By the end of the eighteenth century, letterpress printing had been in existence for 350 years, and in that time, it had changed technologically hardly at all. Baskerville, Bodoni, and …
In today’s cultural institutions, the texts for announcements, newsletters – even full-dress catalogs – are composed on computers, often by staff members with scant graphic design background. By precept and …
An examination of typefaces and related letterforms. Topics include: commercial typography and the evolution of decorative display types: Perrin, Whittingham, and the revival of old style typefaces; the types of …
