Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #181891 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

Synopsis
Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts - from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond - play in contemporary graphic design. Written and compiled by the world's leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed texts that will entertain, edify and inspire a new generation of students and practitioners to appreciate that the past contains typographic riches for the future.

Customer Reviews

New Vintage Type by Steven Heller & Gail Anderson
Varied good examples of retro posters etc are shown and have a short commentary followed by the design firm, artists, designers, photographers, publishers and most importantly the primary fonts used.

For myself the quality of the retro designs and the ability to identify most of the fonts used makes this book a must buy. Some of the fonts are difficult to track down, but if they were easy to find then the book would not be so valuable.

Many thanks to the authors for an excellent book.