Typography


The Elements of Typographic Style
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography
The Anatomy of Type
The New Typography
Detail in Typography
An Essay on Typography
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
The Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type
Typographie: A Manual on Design
Type Matters!
Typography Sketchbooks
Designing Type
Graphic Icons by John   CliffordThoughts on Design by Paul RandAbout Two Squares and More About Two Squares by El LissitzkyThe Design of Dissent by Milton GlaserGeorge Lois by George Lois
Graphic Design History
61 books — 13 voters
The Non-Designer's Type Book by Robin P. WilliamsThe Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
For selvudgivere og andre
2 books — 1 voter

Homebodies by Tembe Denton-HurstBlack Swans by Eve BabitzTrick Mirror by Jia TolentinoGlittering a Turd by Kris HallengaHey You Assholes by Kyle Seibel
Serif Text-Based Covers
156 books — 4 voters
Homebodies by Tembe Denton-HurstBeijing Sprawl by Xu ZechenGirlhood by Melissa FebosAgainst White Feminism by Rafia ZakariaOutsiders by Alice   Slater
Repeating Word Covers
78 books — 5 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiS. by J.J. AbramsLiberators by Alex LetnerTHE YOGA WITH NO PANTS by Alex LetnerThe Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Illuminated Novels
47 books — 33 voters
The MASH Up by Laura Marie MeyersThe Hearth Witch's Guide to Spite & Spellwork (Standard Edition) by Kiri CallaghanThe Fox and the Star by Coralie Bickford-SmithThings We Didn't See Coming by Steven AmsterdamEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fonty Book Covers
5 books — 1 voter

Neil Postman
“ The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired and how the world was to be understood. "Knowing" the facts took on a new meaning, for it did not imply that one understood implications, background, or connections. Telegraphic discourse permitted no time for historical perspectives and gave no priority to the qualitative. To the telegraph, intelligence meant knowing of lots of things, not knowin ...more ”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Tristan Tzara
“ Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography. ”
― Tristan Tzara, Manifesti del dadaismo

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This is a book group for AIGA member designers, faculty and fans of design
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