by Robert Bringhurst (1992)
The bible of typography. Renowned poet and typographer Robert Bringhurst clarifies the history, geometry, and craftsmanship of letterforms, page proportions, and textual hierarchy.
Ruari McLean
The Scottish-born McLean tells all about building his career as a designer, typographer, and author in London's postwar publishing scene. McLean played a central role in British graphic design from the 1940s to the 1980s, designing and editing Motif and penning the well-known Thames and Hudson Manua.
Steven Heller and Philip B. Meggs
Presents more than fifty texts, familiar and rare, about the history, aesthetics, and practice of type design and typography. Includes essays by such leading type masters as Frederic W. Goudy, Hermann Zapf, and Paul Rand. [back cover].
Ellen Lupton
The definitive guide to using typography in visual communication. Ellen Lupton explains how type creates order and emotion on physical pages and digital screens through grids, spacing, and kerning.
John Berger
Based on the BBC television series, John Berger’s Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. Berger looks at how we look at paintings, challenging traditional Western conventions of perspective, ownership, and the female form in art.