ILS-519
Acquisitions & development of library and information resources |
©2004-2005
Amy Ranger |
Interview with an Acquisitions librarian |
Main index |
Special project: Collection
analysis of Typography books at Western Michigan University |
LCCN LC Class Number Heading Used For/See From Search Also Under Found in |
sh97005138 Z246 Graphic design (Typography) Typographic design Design Printing Layout (Printing) Work cat.: 97-10546: Graphic design tricks & techniques, 1997 (chapters on type creation, paper choices, etc.) LC database, July, 2, 1997 (195 records with title word "design" and subject word "printing," many with titles such as "printing layout and design," 46 with title phrase "graphic design;" 11 records with phrase "typographic design") Bookman's glossary, 1983 (design, the specifications for graphic format; typography, the arrangement and appearance of type matter; layout, the working diagram of a page or other spatial area) |
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1996 |
1998 |
1999 |
2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
Quantity |
1 |
1 |
6 |
11 |
6 |
9 |
12 |
4 |
5 |
Circ. stats. |
Unknown |
0 |
4≤ |
8≤ |
12≤ | 16≤ |
20≤ |
≥21 |
Per title |
10 |
8 |
10 |
8 |
8 |
6 |
2 |
4 |
Condition |
Unknown |
Poor |
Fair |
Good |
New |
by title |
10 |
0 |
4 |
23 |
18 |
WMU Circulation |
2003-04 |
2002-03 |
2001-02 |
2000-01 |
NC |
47 |
51 |
7 |
12 |
Z |
398 |
485 |
97 |
628 |
Fancy features a series of 12 typographic stories including a man who trains his geese to skywrite, a signwriter who mysteriously forecasts business lifespans, the evangelist who wrote ‘Eternity’ 500,000 times throughout the streets of Sydney, the office cleaners who spell out huge words of protest on skyscrapers using just lightswitches, the two mile logotype, the woman who maps human energies of typing and many more... (7)
This has got to be the typographic bargain of the year! This massive book-nearly 600 pages, over 2,000 illustrations in a 9.5" x 12" format-costs only $39.95.
This is not a typography textbook. It is the beginning of a reference work which demonstrates the interaction between craft and technology, theory and practice, between functional and experimental ideas. Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott and Bernard Stein have not delivered the ultimate book on typography (despite the implications of their subtitle), but it is a book full of engrossing information.
Friedl, Ott and Stein consider typography as a key component of culture and have divided Typography into the chronology, the persons and the institutions, the tools, and typefaces. The chronology is a 66-page breeze through the history of writing from Raygun to the Assyrians. The chronology actually goes backward from the present. It is very disconcerting since it breaks the usual threads of influence. Fortunately, the illustrations are excellent and the summary descriptions of each "movement" are succinct and often sharply observed. (8)