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Book Thinking with Type

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ellen Lupton
  • Publisher : Chronicle Books
  • Release : 2024-03-12
  • ISBN : 1797229621
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Thinking with Type written by Ellen Lupton and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton—revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces. "Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."—I Love Typography The bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Covering the essentials of typography, this book explores everything from typefaces and type families to kerning and tracking to grids and layout principles. Ellen Lupton provides clear and focused guidance on how letters, words, and paragraphs should be aligned, spaced, ordered, and shaped. Historical and contemporary examples of graphic design show how to learn the rules and how to break them. Critical essays, eye-opening diagrams, helpful exercises, and dozens of examples and illustrations show readers how to be inventive within systems that inform and communicate. Featuring 32 pages of new content, the third edition is revised and refined from cover to cover: More fonts: old fonts, new fonts, weird fonts, libre fonts, Google fonts, Adobe fonts, fonts from independent foundries, and fonts and lettering by women and BIPOC designers Introductions to diverse writing systems, contributed by expert typographers from around the world Demonstrations of basic design principles, such as vi­sual balance, Gestalt grouping, and responsive layout Current approaches to typeface design, including Variable fonts and optical sizes Tips for readability, legibility, and accessibility Stunning reproductions from the Letterform Archive Thinking with Type is the typography book for everyone: designers, writers, editors, students, anyone who works with words on page or screen, and enthusiasts of type and lettering. Readers will also love Ellen Lupton's book Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers.

Book Design Graphique Au 21e Si  cle

Download or read book Design Graphique Au 21e Si cle written by Charlotte Fiell and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2003 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a sweeping look at today's most progressive graphic currents - from signage and packaging to branding and web design.

Book Semiotics Unfolding

Download or read book Semiotics Unfolding written by Tasso Borbé and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 1888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Knowledge Visualization Currents

Download or read book Knowledge Visualization Currents written by Francis T Marchese and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text reviews the evolution of the field of visualization, providing innovative examples from various disciplines, highlighting the important role that visualization plays in extracting and organizing the concepts found in complex data. Features: presents a thorough introduction to the discipline of knowledge visualization, its current state of affairs and possible future developments; examines how tables have been used for information visualization in historical textual documents; discusses the application of visualization techniques for knowledge transfer in business relationships, and for the linguistic exploration and analysis of sensory descriptions; investigates the use of visualization to understand orchestral music scores, the optical theory behind Renaissance art, and to assist in the reconstruction of an historic church; describes immersive 360 degree stereographic visualization, knowledge-embedded embodied interaction, and a novel methodology for the analysis of architectural forms.

Book Text and Visuality

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  • Author : Heusser
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2023-11-20
  • ISBN : 9004648321
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Text and Visuality written by Heusser and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cl  s et codes du packaging  s  miotique appliqu  e  retirage

Download or read book Cl s et codes du packaging s miotique appliqu e retirage written by CAVASSILAS Marina and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage propose une méthode opérationnelle pour analyser une communication visuelle, principalement le packaging. Cette méthode, dénommée SEMIO-PACK©, permet de décoder les signes du packaging et d'établir son positionnement dans les moindres détails. Ses piliers méthodologiques sont empruntés aux discplines que sont la sémiotique, l'histoire de l'art, la communication et les sciences cognitives. Avant de présenter l'application de cette méthode à de nombreux packagings (couvrant une cinquantaine de catégories de produits grande consommation), l'ouvrage présente les fondements de la sémiotique puis les processus cognitifs et symboliques impliqués dans la perception visuelle. Cette méthode se révèle un outil indispensable pour optimiser les processus d'analyse et de création du packaging. Clés et codes du packaging s'adresse aux professionnels, étudiants et chercheurs dans les domaines du marketing, du design, de la communication et de la sémiotique ainsi qu'à toute personne curieuse de maîtriser les rouages de la communication visuelle.

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  • Publisher : Editions Bréal
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 2749521483
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book written by and published by Editions Bréal. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Communicology

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  • Author : Vilém Flusser
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2022-12-13
  • ISBN : 1503634493
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Communicology written by Vilém Flusser and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communicology is Vilém Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination. In this foundational text he lays the groundwork for later work, offering a philosophical approach to communication as a phenomenon that permeates every aspect of human existence. Clearly organized around questions such as "What is Communication?," "What are Codes?," and "What is Technical Imagination?," the work touches on theater, photography, film, television, and more. Originally written in 1978, but only posthumously published in German, the book is one of the clearest statements of Flusser's theory of communication as involving a variably mediated relation between humans and the world. Although Flusser was writing in the 1970s, his work demonstrates a prescience that makes it of significant contemporary interest to scholars in visual culture, art history, media studies, and philosophy.

Book Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama

Download or read book Aesthetics and Ideology in Contemporary Literature and Drama written by René Agostini and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conviction that the development and promotion of the arts, humanities and culture through the study of literature and the aesthetic are the fundamental constituents of any progress in society is at the heart of this volume. The essays gathered here explore the role of the imagination and aesthetic awareness in an age when the corporatization of knowledge is in the process of transforming literary studies, and political commitment is in danger of disappearing behind a supposedly post-ideological late-capitalist consensus. The main focus of the volume is the mutual implication of aesthetics and ideology and the status and value of different types of art within the political arena. Challenging issues in contemporary aesthetics are examined within the wider framework of current debates on the disappearance of the real, the crisis in representation, and the use of new media. The wide range of examples collected here, stretching from experimental poetry in post-war Germany, political commitment in twentieth-century French theatre, and countercultural Rumanian theatre under Ceaușescu, to Neo-Victorian fiction, Verbatim theatre in the UK, and political theatre for the masses in Estonia, vouchsafe unique insights into the intersection of aesthetics and ideology and the practical consequences thereof. As such, the volume opens up a space for a meaningful engagement with authentic forms of art from inside and outside the Anglosphere, and, ultimately, uses these examples as a platform from which to imagine some form of “aesthethics”, representing an ideal union of aesthetics and ideology. This concept, first coined by the French philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, will prove to be relevant both within the parameters of the examples discussed here, but also beyond, for the contributors to this volume are unanimous in refusing to believe that aesthetics and ideology can exist one without the other, and in recognizing the centrality of ethics in any discussion of these notions.

Book Polyedra Presents Italian Design is Coming Home  to Switzerland

Download or read book Polyedra Presents Italian Design is Coming Home to Switzerland written by William Georgi and published by ACTAR Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a collection of the work of a group of artists who accepted Polyedra's invitation to celebrate the past, present and future of the close collaboration between Swiss and Italian designers"--P. 5.

Book The Vanguard Messiah

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  • Author : Sami Sjöberg
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2015-08-17
  • ISBN : 3110424525
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book The Vanguard Messiah written by Sami Sjöberg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the role of religion in the avant-garde has begun to attract scholarly interest. The present volume focuses on the work of the Romanian Jewish poet and visual artist Isidore Isou (1925–2007) who founded the lettrist movement in the 1940s. The Jewish tradition played a critical part in the Western avant-garde as represented by lettrism. The links between lettrism and Judaism are substantial, yet they have been largely unexplored until now. The study investigates the works of a movement that explicitly emphasises its vanguard position while relying on a medieval religious tradition as a source of radical textual techniques. It accounts for lettrism’s renunciation of mainstream traditions in favour of a subversive tradition, in this case Jewish mysticism. The religious inclination of lettrism also affects the notion of the avant-garde. The elements of the Jewish tradition in Isou’s theories and artistic production evoke a broader framework where religion and experimental art supplement each other.

Book New Ways of Working

Download or read book New Ways of Working written by Nathalie Mitev and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on new ways of working, and explores implications of these new practices with a particular emphasis on the place occupied by technology, materiality and bodies within contemporary working configurations. It draws together an international range of scholars to examine diverse subjects such as: the gig economy, social media as a work space, the role of materiality in living labs, managerial techniques and organizational legitimacy. Drawing on global perspectives, from France to Nigeria, this book presents a fascinating examination of the many new ways people are working, and relating to their work. Part of the esteemed Technology, Work and Globalization series, this book is valuable reading for scholars working on organizational studies, ethnography, technology management, and management more generally.

Book The Media in the Network Society

Download or read book The Media in the Network Society written by Gustavo Cardoso and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Network Society the development of a new communicational model has been taking shape. A communicational model characterized by the fusion of interpersonal communication and mass communication, connecting audiences and broadcasters under a hypertextual matrix linking several media devices. The Networked Communication model is the informational societies communication model. A model that must be understood also in its needed literacies for building our media diets, media matrixes and on how it's changing the way autonomy is managed and citizenship exercised in the Information Age. In this book Gustavo Cardoso develops an analysis that, focusing on the last decade, takes us from Europe to North America and from South America to Asia, combining under the framework of the Network Society a broad range of scientific perspectives from Media Studies to Political Science and Social Movements theory to Sociology of Communication.

Book Scapeland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gillian B. Pierce
  • Publisher : Brill
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 9401208697
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Scapeland written by Gillian B. Pierce and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scapeland: Writing the Landscape from Diderot’s Salons to the Postmodern Museum is a comparative, interdisciplinary study tracing theories of the sublime and a history of spectatorship from Diderot’s eighteenth-century French Salons, through art criticism by Baudelaire and Breton, to Jean-François Lyotard’s postmodern exhibition Les Immatériaux. In the Salons, an exploration of the painted landscape becomes an encounter with both the limits of representation and the infinite possibilities of fiction. Baudelaire and Breton explore similar limits in their work, set against the backdrop of the modern city. For them, as for Diderot, the attempt to render visual objects in narrative language leads to the development of new literary forms and concerns. Lyotard’s concept of the “postmodern museum” frames the sublime encounter, once again, in terms that expressly evoke Diderot’s verbal rendering of painted spaces as a personal promenade. According to Lyotard, Diderot “ouvre, par écrit, les surfaces des tableaux comme les portes d’une exposition.. . . [il] abolit . . . l’opposition de la nature et de la culture, de la réalité de l’image, du volume et de la surface.” Reading the literary production of these four writers alongside their art criticism, Scapeland considers narrative responses to art as imaginative assertions of human presence against the impersonal world of objects.

Book Appraisal  Sentiment and Emotion Analysis in Political Discourse

Download or read book Appraisal Sentiment and Emotion Analysis in Political Discourse written by Claudia Roberta Combei and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book adopts a multi-method multimodal approach to the study of online political communication, applying it to case studies from the UK, France, and Italy toward offering a portrait of the rapid ideological shifts in contemporary Western democracies. The volume introduces an integrated framework combining Sentiment and Emotion Analysis, rooted in lexical semantics, and the qualitative dimensions of Appraisal Theory, applying it to large corpora of online political communication from the UK, France, and Italy. Combei and Reggi highlight their combined potential in analyzing the multimodal resources in such discourses and in turn, revealing fresh insights into layers of subtext and the ways in which parties and movements frame their political programmes and values. The authors also take into account culture- and language-specific variables across the three countries in shaping such discourses. The volume makes the case for an integrated methodological framework that can be uniquely applied to better understand the multimodal communicative landscape of divisiveness in today’s rapidly shifting political climate and other forms of online communication more broadly. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in digital communication, political communication, multimodality, and qualitative and quantitative discourse analysis, especially those interested in corpus-assisted approaches.

Book Carnap and the Vienna Circle

Download or read book Carnap and the Vienna Circle written by Ramon Cirera and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not inacurate to say that from 1928 to 1936 Carnap was a member of the Vienna Circle, even though during this period he was not always present in Vienna. During this years, which spanned roughly the period from the Aufbau to Testability and Meaning, he worked or at least discussed frequently with the members of the group. However, traditionally it has been difficult to form a proper view of the development of Carnap's ideas throughout this period, mainly because of three errors which have persisted in the commonly accepted historical interpretation of Carnap and the Vienna Circle: emphasis on the Circle as a unit rather than a collective of individuals; insistence on verificationism as the defining characteristic of Logical Positivism; and the systematic abstraction of the work of the Circle from its historical context. As against this historically distorted image, this book argues for an alternative reading, evaluating the different influences on Carnap of Schlick, Wittgenstein, Neurath and Popper, and making sense of Carnap's evolution from physicalism to phenomenalism and the syntactic point of view.

Book Multilingual Glossary for Art Librarians

Download or read book Multilingual Glossary for Art Librarians written by IFLA Section of Art Libraries and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the information profession. The series IFLA Publications deals with many of the means through which libraries, information centres, and information professionals worldwide can formulate their goals, exert their influence as a group, protect their interests, and find solutions to global problems.