Exploring Typography

by Tova Rabinowitz

Book Overview

Showcasing the latest in best practices across print and digital media, EXPLORING TYPOGRAPHY, 2e provides a well-researched, authoritative introduction to typography that explores the varied uses of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401815057
• ISBN13: 9781401815059
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Typographic education

This book proves that textbooks can be, in fact, important sources of education. Unlike the painfully boring & irrelevant textbooks of my schooldays, 'Exploring Typography' offers a clear, thorough and enjoyable grounding in the practical application of the craft. I've read myriad typography books, some truly useful, others, serving more as a showcase than practical training. Having been deeply and personally involved with typographic design for many years, this book still offers vital information and has filled gaps in my education. For any student of typography, I would suggest strongly to purchase and absorb this book ASAP. My gratitude to Ms Rabinowitz.

Great Item

The book is exactly what I needed and thanks for the super fast delivery.

Review by Typography Researcher and Author, Colin Wheildon

Tova Rabinowitz has excelled with her book Exploring Typography. It's a master piece. She covers, comprehensively and comprehensibly, all aspects of the craft - history and development, layout and design, legibility and readability, digital applications, creativity, and techniques - in a user-friendly presentation. For anyone whose livelihood or interest is in typography and its ramifications, it's an essential tool. But more than that: it's a very good and interesting read. I rate it as the best book on typography I have encountered in my more than 50 years experience. SIgned: Colin Wheildon, typography researcher and author of Type and Layout (Strathmoor Press, Berkeley, California and Worsley Press, Hastings, Victoria, Australia).

Great job!

I teach at a 4 year university and had been unhappy for a while at the textbook we were using; but like any big ship, it takes a while to steer in another direction. In the meantime, I had a lot of time given to checking out possible exchanges and I was so glad that I found this book. It is everything many of the others in its genre are not. One issue from a previously used textbook was the layout and the amount of material being presented. It was not only clumsy for a book on typography, but tragically full of errors; in spelling, grammar and facts. This book, "Exploring Typography," covers all of the important information for a first introduction into the subject. It gives a nice overview of the history of written communication starting with pre-historic man, up to the present digital era we are in. It also challenges us to think outside of where we are now and to grasp typography's place in the future. The thing I enjoy perhaps most about the book is its easy layout. Students often have so much to read in their studies, and sadly many only skim the surface for the relevent information to get by. The layout is broken into bite-sized paragraphs, lots of images and consequently keeps their interest longer. A number of chapters highlight a present-day typographer or designer, which gives students a look at their upcoming peers as they look toward graduation. For those interested in using the book as a textbook, I would certainly recommend having a look at it. It is a very easy-to-follow book for any age level and is definitely worth exploring. Tova Rabinowitz has done a very nice job in supplying future and current designers with something they can tangibly use and apply into their design.

Exploring Typography

Thomson Delmar Learning just sent me the book Exploring Typography to review for use in my classroom. I think it is one of the best on the subject and know it will be adopted for use in my classes. I teach at an independent high school in Vermont and also at the state college near by. The book is well organized and the illustrations are great. It must have taken a lot of effort and time to write; I am always in awe of someone that can bring light to a difficult and confusing subject such as typography....great book!!!