Have your way with type

From SNDS Magazine 3|2009 www.snds.org
In its ”…Essentials: 100 Design Principles for …” book series, Pockport has published the Typography version. Ina Saltz has collected and comments on 25 examples in each section of the book, logically entitled: The Letter; The Word; The Paragraph and The Page – a total of 100 demonstrations of how to use type succesfully. The book is meant for designers of every medium in which type plays a major or minor role.
__Each spread has its own theme – focusing on a special detail or phenomenon in type usage. The headlines include: The rule of three typefaces; Less is more; More is more; Tightly Stacked Lines; Systemizing hierarchy; and Decks, callouts, and pull quotes.
__Beautiful reproductions and short, instructional texts make this book very useful, as well as a joy to find inspiration from.

Layout Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Using Grids was reviewed in SNDS Magazine 2009|1.
Layout Essentials: 100 Design Prin­ciples for Building Brands will be pub­lished in September 2010.

Ina Saltz:
Typography Essentials – 100 design principles for working with type
208 pages.
ISBN: 978-1-59253-523-1.
Price: 40 USD
www.rockpub.com