Letterforms surround us: inscriptions or names on buildings, directional signs for road networks, and signs within and around buildings. This book focuses on the letterforms and typography found in public places that help us to navigate towns, cities, and countrysides and that contribute to a sense of place. Featuring 700 color images of examples from around the world, it discusses the function and execution of signage. Part resource, part celebration, it brings together material that is of key interest to graphic designers, lettering artists, architects, and all those who are concerned with how towns and cities look and function.
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Phil Baines is an accomplished designer and senior lecturer in typography at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and co-curator of the Central Lettering Record. He is a frequent contributor to the quarterly graphic design magazine Eye.
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Signs - Lettering in the Environment by Barnes and Dixon (Lawrence King),
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Signs are everywhere. Whether directing travelers or advertising new products, urban signage has become a fact of modern life. We were thus intrigued when we found a recent book taking up the study of such things.
Unfortunately, Signs: Lettering in the Environment, while attempting some semblance of a scholarly study, only sufficiently covers two main areas of signage: directive road signs and signs that identify buildings. And while there are a preponderance of signs within both categories, we had hoped for much broader coverage of things like outdoor advertising, more non-institutional signage, perhaps neon signs and all the other signs in the environment that are firmly ensconced all around the world. Taking them at their premise, which is well defined in their introductory notes, Baines and Dixon (who have written on similar subjects before) approach their subject with a somewhat clinical view, describing and illustrating both road and architectural signs through the ages. Distinctions are clarified between type (that which allows typographic automation) and lettering (done on command for customized situations) as well as how things like font selection, cap and lower case decisions, readability studies and type accoutrements (arrows, blank space, layout and placement) effect the over all decision making when it comes to formatting signage. The book is divided roughly into the two aforementioned parts (road signs and buildings - with a few additional field study examples thrown in at the end) and each is presented with a historical view including the identification of signs which no longer exist. More like a term paper than an art book, `Signs' does quite a good job given it's self-imposed parameters. We had just hoped for more categories of signs given their omnipresent state in the modern world. Perhaps next time.
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This review is from: Signs: Lettering in the Environment (Paperback)
The book is very interesting, the shipment was quick but I had to pay 5,50 € to Poste Italiane when I recieved the book.
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