Book description
After two decades as one of the
world’s best-selling books on designing with type —
including editions in Korean, German, Russian, Portuguese, and
Polish — Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how
type works continues to educate, entertain, and enlighten
design students and type lovers around the globe.
In this third edition, acclaimed type designer Erik
Spiekermann brings his type classic fully up to date on mobile
and web typography. He also includes scores of new visual examples
on how to effectively communicate with type and a full
selection of new typefaces that are used and referenced throughout
the book.
If you use type — and these days, almost everyone does
— Spiekermann’s engaging, common-sense style will help
you understand how to look at type, work with type, choose the
best typeface for your message, and express yourself more
effectively through design. Compact, yet rich with anecdotes and
visual examples, the handbook’s multilayered design not only
makes for a fun, fast read; it also invites exploration,
ensuring you learn something new each and every time you open it
up.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Paul Watzlawick: One cannot not communicate
- Tallulah Bankhead: There is less to this than meets the eye
- Sigmund Freud: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
- Gerry Mulligan: The best part about playing the piano is that you don’t have to lug around a saxophone
- Sherlock Holmes: No, Watson, this was not done by accident, but by design
- Eric Gill: Letters are things, not pictures of things
- Anyone who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep
- William Addison Dwiggins: Symmetry is static – that is to say quiet; that is to say, inconspicuous
- Paul Klee: Appearances are not false
- Groucho Marx: Now that your wife has bought you a new suit, I don’t mind starting up a correspondence
- Yogi Berra: When you get to the Fork in the Road, Take it
- Bibliography
- Index
- Typeface index
- Credits
Product information
- Title: Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works, Third Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2013
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780321934284
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