Thinking with Type: A Comprehensive Guide to Typography for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students

Jasmine: I highly recommend this book. It has a great layout. It had really good information. I highly recommend buying this book specially if your new to type. I got this book for a great price though the deals on Amazon. I would buy it again. Buy it and see for yourself. The only thing I wished for about this book is making the book bigger & print bigger for easier reading. Other then that it is a great book. I highly recommend it.

United States on Sep 01, 2023

Suryakanta pradhanSuryakanta pradhan: Yes! It's one of the best book about typography and how to use it well in design. I'm a self taught graphic designer as a student it's hard to find a teacher specially country like India. So I follow online method to learn like YouTube, udemy, coursea, skillshare and so on. This book suggested will Paterson from YouTube. I haven't start reading this book but soon I will start reading this masterpiece. I'm buy this book specially for typography and how to use well.

India on Jul 25, 2023

Ekaterina: If you are graphic designer or beginner and struggle with typography… this book is for you!

Canada on Jul 15, 2023

Zaida Delflor: Love the price and didn’t expect to be looking like new.

United States on May 09, 2023

Royster: Described as "good," and indistinguishable from new. A tremendous bargain. And much quicker shipping than two commercial book sellers that I'm still waiting for. Well done, and I will definitely look for you again.

United States on Mar 18, 2023

Chica: As described purchase for a class.

United States on Jan 02, 2023

Gurvinder Singh: Easy to read, full of information

India on Oct 07, 2022

João MarquesJoão Marques: This is an amazing book, both the content and the layout are amazing to read and look at. I’m so happy with my purchase!

Spain on Jun 16, 2022

Fonetiks: The Envelope Manufacturer, Chris Oliveros

I can’t remember the last time I bought envelopes. The only envelopes most of us encounter now contain bills and financial statements. Email and texting have made envelopes almost obsolete. It is no surprize therefore that the company in Chris Oliveros’, eponymously titled graphic novel, The Envelope Manufacturer, is facing hard times.

The Envelope Manufacturer opens with a pages-long establishing sequence of word balloons floating over a city that resembles Montreal (Oliveros’ home town) with the sound of a machine operating somewhere out of sight. The word balloons eventually lead to a single machine at the envelope company that is causing the noise, which changes from “Ta –tlak, Ta –tlak” to “Phssss” as the machine breaks down, precipitating the string of events that fill the rest of the book.

One of the firm’s employees, Hershel, an overweight middle-aged man with a “pencil thin moustache,” stands arms akimbo and proclaims the hopelessness of trying to repair the machine for a fourth time. He proposes buying a replacement part on credit. “What other choice do we have?” he asks. Once the...

Canada on Feb 03, 2016

Stephen W. Hiemstra ﻦ: Often when I talk to friends about my publishing, conversations are short. People get the idea of writing and authorship; they generally draw a blank when it comes to publishing. In particular, the idea that a book needs to be designed seems almost mystical [1]. So my delight in finding a new title focused on identifying and using type (or fonts) has been hard to explain…

Ellen Lupton, author of Thinking with Type, has clearly traveled this route. She searched for a suitable textbook on using type for her class at the Maryland Institute College of Art, but resolved that she needed to write the book herself (7).

The first thing to notice about Thinking with Type is that the book is rather heavy (1.4 pounds) and a bit more square (7” x 8.5”) than the more typical paperback (9” x 6”). Thinking with Type has a lot of glossy photographs to illustrate the points being made. Needless to say, it is a visual delight.

The format of the book serves its purpose well. Lupton writes:

This book is about thinking with typography—in the end, the emphasis falls on “with”. Typography is a tool for doing things with: shaping content, giving language a...

United States on Jan 16, 2016