Death Of A Typographer

Author : Nick Gadd
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925801950
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death of a Typographer written by Nick Gadd and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MARTIN KERN has a special sensitivity to fonts, a skill that he uses to solve typographical crimes. When a local printer is found dead in his workshop, his body in the shape of an X, Martin and his co-investigator, journalist Lucy Tan, are drawn into a mystery that is stranger than anything they have encountered before. Someone is leaving typographical clues at the scenes of a series of murders. All the trails lead back to Pieter van Floogstraten, a Dutch design genius who disappeared without trace in the 1970s, and who has since been engaged in a mystical scheme to create the world’s most perfect font, which is concealed in locations around the globe. But is he really the killer, and how are the crimes connected to his secret font? In solving the mystery, Martin and Lucy may have to expose Martin’s hero as a psychopath. The main plot of the novel unfolds in Melbourne, while interleaved chapters set variously in a Tibetan monastery, on the plains of Peru, in London, Naples and Amsterdam, gradually reveal the story of Floogstraten in flashback. Other characters include a noir-style private font investigator, a typographical monk from the Renaissance, a Dutch prog rock group named I Am A Dolphin, and a collective of Italian typo-terrorists. This novel takes the reader into the arcane world of typographers and their typefaces, of symbols, swashes and glyphs, where the difference between a serif and sans serif could mean life and death. ‘You might start thinking Jasper Fforde has hit a new high, but Nick Gadd’s brilliant blend of humour, mystery and, yes, typography is all his own. A compelling read, whether or not you know your Comic Sans from your ZapfDingbats.’ NICK EARLS

Author : Nick Gadd
Publisher : Arden
ISBN 13 : 9781925984194
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death of a Typographer written by Nick Gadd and published by Arden. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international crime novel brilliantly blending humour and mystery with a fascination for typography that is widely shared by today's reading public. This novel takes the reader into the arcane world of typographers and typefaces, of symbols, swashes and glyphs, where the difference between a serif and sans serif could mean life or death.

Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652921
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just My Type written by Simon Garfield and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.

Author : Cyrus Highsmith
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616899786
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Paragraphs written by Cyrus Highsmith and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What goes on inside a paragraph of printed text? Cyrus Highsmith's Inside Paragraphs is an essential primer on the basics of typography that focuses specifically on the role of printed text within a paragraph. Engaging full-page illustrations and Highsmith's accessible explanations show the role of white space between letters, words, and lines. Perfect for students and professionals alike, this updated edition includes a new preface.

Author : Nick Gadd
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922454079
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melbourne Circle written by Nick Gadd and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over two years, writer Nick Gadd and his wife Lynne circled the city of Melbourne on foot, starting at Williamstown and ending in Port Melbourne. Along the way they uncovered lost buildings, secret places and mysterious signs that told of forgotten stories and curious characters from the past. Soon after they completed the circle, Lynne passed away from cancer. Melbourne Circle is the story of their journey, a memoir, and a stunning meditation on personal loss. ‘What a gem this book is! Oddity, wonderment, weirdness: these splendid essays reveal a marvellous Melbourne most of us have never encountered before. This is a psychogeography dense with vernacular history, humane detail, and from beneath the shadow of grief, love.’ –­ Gail Jones, author of Five Bells and The Death of Noah Glass ‘‘‘Psychojogging”’ and the pleasures of walking.’ – interview with Hilary Harper on Radio National, Life Matters ‘Marvellous Melbourne: the books that capture our city and its life.’ – The Age/Sydney Morning Herald ‘Melbourne Circle: Walking, Memory and Loss is a very special book. Just read it, and then take to the streets and walk with the same spirit of enquiry.’ – Sophie Cunningham, The Age ‘A beautiful meditation on the streets in which we live, ghosts, love and loss … While there is sadness in this book, Gadd writes with warmth, humour and a generosity of spirit.’ – Stephen Romei, The Weekend Australian ‘An endearing book about enduring love and serendipitous discoveries; of remnants of the past pasted onto old buildings, and the way these ghost signs are portals into another time.’ – The Saturday Paper

Author : Craig Ward
Publisher : ACTAR Publishers
ISBN 13 : 8415391358
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Popular Lies about Graphic Design written by Craig Ward and published by ACTAR Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ward pulls from his ten years' experience as a designer and art director to tackle subjects such as design fetishists, Helvetica's neutrality, urgent briefs, as well as topics such as the validity of design education, the supposed death of print, client relationships and pitch planning. In addition, the book features contributions and insights from more than a dozen other established practitioners such as Milton Glaser, Stefan Sagmeister, Christoph Niemann and David Carson--Provided by publisher.

Author : Hermann Zapf
Publisher : Pittsburgh : Pittsburgh Bibliophiles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunt Roman written by Hermann Zapf and published by Pittsburgh : Pittsburgh Bibliophiles. This book was released on 1965 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nick Gadd
Publisher : Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925984729
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghostlines written by Nick Gadd and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Trudeau, a once-respected investigative journalist, has stepped on the wrong toes. With his personal life and health deteriorating around him, he is consigned to a suburban newspaper where he writes ‘filler’ local news articles to be slotted in among the real estate advertisements. Sent to cover what appears to be a tragic-yet-routine death at a level crossing, Philip is drawn into a multilayered mystery that includes art theft, political intrigue and business corruption … not to mention murder. Ghostlines is a cleverly-plotted and compelling story that is part thriller and part psychological mystery. ‘Ghostlines is rough-cut, grainy and good … Earthy and exciting, with a bluesy, wistful air.’ — The Australian ‘A thriller with a neat psychological twist.’ — The Herald-Sun ‘Crime fans will enjoy the compelling narrative, succinct writing and the pleasing lack of blood, gore and psychopathic behaviour that mars most contemporary crime stories … FOUR STARS’ — Bookseller and Publisher WINNER Ned Kelly Award for a debut crime novel WINNER Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript

Author : Jan Middendorp
Publisher : 010 Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789064504600
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dutch Type written by Jan Middendorp and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overzicht van vooral de 20e-eeuwse Nederlandse typografie.

Author : Robert Bringhurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981959788
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palatino written by Robert Bringhurst and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Typographer, translator, cultural historian, poet, and linguist Robert Bringhurst presents a taxonomic study of the many iterations of the typeface Herman Zapf's Palatino, along with a broader overview of the cultural history of type design. This is an important book, writes David R. Godine, "that argues, as eloquently and as convincingly as has ever been argued, that type design belongs squarely in the humanist tradition, that it is as much a member of the fine arts as painting and printmaking and calligraphy."