bibliography for typography 2008

Emma Marson
Bibliography
Typography 2008

Baines, Phil. Penguin by Design. New York: Penguin Books , 2005.
This book, subtitled “A Cover Story 1935-2005”, was truly fascinating to look through. The Penguin designs have amazing cohesiveness of design dating back through the thirties. This book had exactly what I was hoping for, tons of illustrations of cover designs and also information about the Penguin company and some of the designers. It was very helpful to me during my process of project three.

Chartier, Robert. The Culture of Print. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987.
I checked out this book for use in Project 1. It is an extensive history of how typography effects culture and visa versa. It includes many historical facts as well as anecdotal stories relevant to the topic. It a bit hard to navigate to find information relevant to my time period and the topics within it, but I found some interesting information nonetheless.

Landis, Bill, and Michelle Clifford. Sleazoid Express. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
This book I chose solely for its interesting, eye catching cover design to inform my process for project three. I studied it as an in-class exercise also, looking closely at the page layout, numbering, table of contents and fonts. Everything in the design of this book was clearly very carefully chosen and thought out, giving it a cohesive quality that does justice to its content.

McCoy, Katherine. American Graphic Design Expression: The Evolution of American Typography. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1990.
This was an eight page article written called “Legacy Considered” that the class
was given before we were even assigned the project. It was very helpful to me as far as giving me a general understanding of the history of graphic design as a whole. It was an easy read and a very concise overview. For my project, I quoted the second paragraph which introduced the period of the Industrial Revolution.

Morison, Stanley. The Art of Printing. Oxford: The University Press, 1937.
This book, written on thick, textured paper, was also one I checked out as a reference for project 1. It has a lot of information about the machinery of printing and its evolution throughout history but not very relevant to my time period. The whole second half of the book is all pictures, so it shows how different type has evolved all the way from a inscription ordered to be engraved by Charlemagne (d.795) to 1695.

Peterson, William. A Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984.
The Kelmscott Press, founded by William Morris 1891 London for the purpose of improving printing and book design that was available, was one of the topics within my time period for project 1. This book tells of the Press and also of its extensive body of published works. Though it was only one of many topics, I thought the Kelmscott Press was very influential and important in the realm of typography, which is why I checked out an entire book pertaining to the subject.

Rafaeli, Ari. Book Typography. London: Oak Knoll Press, 2005.
One thing that was helpful to me about this source was its information about different fonts, especially Gill Sans (which I am currently using) which I used for the majority of project three and many of the exercises in project two. This book was mainly full of historical information about typography, but also showed some great illustrations of how typography has been done in books, past and present.

Rollo, Silver. The American Printer 1787-1825. Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia, 1967.
This book, which I checked out as part of my research for project 1, is the most comprehensive source I found for the project. It has pictures, focuses on the evolution of type machines and talks about the role of illustration. The chapter, “Expansion of the Press” was especially useful to my understanding of the beginning of my time period.

Rosenthal, Robert. The Printer's Craft: An exhibition selected from the R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Collection. Chicago: The University of Chicago Library, 1982.
This source is from an exhibition of the Donnely Collection (a collection of typographic manuals, textbooks, specimen books, treatises and journals on the fundamental elements of printing as typesetting) is one I checked out to help me research project 1. It not only has a chapter dedicated to the Kelmscott Press and one to lithography but also very interesting information about various typefaces and information about the integration of images and typography.

Snowman, Margo. Museum Graphics. London : Thames & Hudson, 1992.
This beautiful book, which I used to gain ideas for my design process of project three, contains hundreds on color pictures of advertisements of exhibitions and also of some of the exhibitions themselves from museums all over the world. It was so interesting to be able to see typography from esteemed museums all over the world, the similarities and differences. This source was very helpful to me in terms of gaining inspiration for my own designs.