New Vintage Type : Classic Fonts for the Digital Age

Author: Steven Heller &  Gail Anderson

Format: Paperback | 192 pages

Dimensions: 250 x 250 x 24mm | 1,010g

Publication date: 16 Feb 2009

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.