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A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry
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Author: Kate Clair
List Price: $39.95
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ISBN: 0471292370
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (04 January, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 31,263
Average Customer Rating: 3.42 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Avoid at all costs
This is unequivocally the most poorly written textbook I've ever encountered in my life. I have no idea how this got published. If you casually flip through the book as a cursory review, you'll find that it LOOKS nice, (On almost every other page there's an enlarged sample of a font - complete with an unnecessary, meticulously hand-drawn portrait of it's creator) But once you begin an attempt to actually read the text, it's migraine time. The writing is so distractingly bad that I'm at the point where after reading this book for a few hours, I find myself having learned nothing because I keep finding awkwardly written sentences and revising them in my head instead of retaining the information they're supposed to convey. As an example, proving why no one should ever spend money on this book, here is an excerpt from the first chapter: "Those who could read were looked to for advice in all types of disputes and emergencies, their knowledge and judgment were unchallenged. Scribes - those who could write - were believed in some cultures to have power over human life, if an Egyptian scribe wrote your name in the Book of the Dead, your time was up in this world! Doubtless, the scribes did little to dissuade this myth. Scribes were trained in Egypt from the time they were about five years old. Today we have abolished this controlled system of learning writing and reading skills. (But a parallel to that practice today can be seen today in the knowledge of computer programming.) In ancient times, hand-copied scrolls were expensive to produce, (not many people were taught to write); any scrolls were cherished, valued and cared for from one generation to the next."
Rating: 1 out of 5
Reader for New Hampshire
This book was required (forced on me ) for a graphic design course that I am taking. Flipping through the pages, it appears to be a great book. Ten times I have attempted to read it, but after ten or fifteen minutes it gave me a headache or I couldn't keep my mind on it. No one else in the class was able to read it either. The material could be very interesting, but the author loves to use extremely small type size with a typeface that is extremely difficult to read (for example, page 259). This book never saw an editor--no competent editor would have allowed it to be printed.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Good Price
If your going to Fairleigh Dickinson University you will need this book if your taking Digital Design and Graphics Price is GOOD
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