New Vintage Type: Classic Fonts For The Digital Age

New Vintage Type: Classic Fonts for the Digital Age

Choose, use, and understand great vintage type with this authoritative guide. Retro is the new modern. And nowhere is that fact more evident than in typography, which today uses vintage type in ads, book and magazine design, movies, and everywhere words convey meaning. Viewers may not even realize that the type itself conveys mood, information, and a sense of style, but graphic designers know the power of vintage type. Now the world?s foremost historian of graphic design presentsNew Vintage Type, a remarkable rethinking and rediscovery of old and classic typefaces for today?s modern needs. Hundreds of amazing, astounding, and obscure examples from around the world are gathered here, organized into five historically and stylistically grouped sections: the Victorian Age, the Woodtype Era, Art Deco Style, Modern Movement, and the Eccentric Movement. With hundreds of lively and one-of-a-kind examples, plus informed, intriguing tex,New Vintage Type is the graphic designer's guide to choosing and using vintage type for maximum impact.About the AuthorSteven Heller, art director of theNew York Times Book Review andco-chairof the MFA program at the School ofVisual Arts in New York City, is theauthor ofHandwritten: ExpressiveLettering inthe Digital Age and many othertitles.He lives in New York City.Gail Anderson is a senior designer atSpotCo and the former art director ofRolling Stone. She lives in New York City.