Culture typographique, Atelier Perrousseaux

A life devoted to typography Adrian Frutiger Adrian Frutiger tells us about the formative years of his life. His childhood in the midst of his family around Interlaken. The natural environment may have been splendid, but life was economically difficult. At a little Interlaken printing (...) Nombre de pages : 128 quadrichromie
Format : 21 x 29,7 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-11-1
39.50 €

A Typographic History Abundantly illustrated, this Typographic History proposes, in two volumes, to widely diffuse typographical culture. Here we learn, through text and image, the main milestones that led, in time, to the development of western typography, of (...) Nombre de pages : 400
Format : 21 x 30 cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-13-5
50.00 €

Boltana Frank Adebiaye Suzanne Cardinal François Boltana (1950-1999) aura peut-être vécu la typographie à son instant le plus décisif, au moment où les promesses multi-séculaires qu'elle portait en elle purent vraiment se concrétiser. La France des années 50 dans laquelle il naît (...) Nombre de pages : 120
ISBN : 978-2-911220-45-6
32.90 €

Choosing the right font (advanced class) Gérard Blanchard This rather dense work is devoted to the history of typography. Its goal is to highlight the extreme diversity of forms of writing available on the market. Lettering and its use throughout time have been influenced by socio-cultural (...) Nombre de pages : 232 pages
Format : 16 x 23 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-02-9
25.00 €

Chronicle of the form Herman Lampaert This chronology mentions the most impressive visual creation works of the Western Europe for the last 2000 years. The notion of visual expression embraces here all creations from the falsely futile to the absolutely useful, from the spoon to (...) Nombre de pages : 400
Format : 13,5 x 24 cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-12-8
25.00 €

Civility Typefaces Rémi Jimenes The “French Hand Art Letters” or “handwritten-style letters,” civility typefaces etched by Robert Granjon in 1557 make up one of the most famous imitations of handwritten fonts. Reproducing the very supple Gothic cursive writing of French (...) Nombre de pages : 120
ISBN : 978-2-911220-40-1
29.50 €

Codex 80 Jean Alessandrini Nombre de pages : 120
Format : 11 x 18 cm
ISBN : 978-2-36765-015-9
12.00 €

Excoffon Roger Excoffon: Now that's a name that probably won't ring a bell for the ordinary person off the street. Nevertheless... if that ordinary person were born in France between 1930 and today, he or she would have inevitably rubbed shoulders with (...) Nombre de pages : 240
ISBN : 978-2-911220-39-5
45.00 €

Guide pratique de choix typographique «Un livre remarquable et indispensable à tout graphiste qui souhaite améliorer ses talents.» Jean-Jacques Evrard - Admirable Design «S’il n’y avait qu’un seul ouvrage à connaître sur la typographie, ce serait celui de David Rault.» (...) Nombre de pages : 256
Format : 16 x 23 cm
ISBN : 978-2-36765-031-9
29.50 €

Histoire de l'écriture typographique - Le XXe siècle Jacques André Nombre de pages : 264
Format : 21 x 29 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-36765-005-0
45.00 €

Histoire de l'écriture typographique - Le XXe siècle II/II Jacques André Nombre de pages : 264
ISBN : 978-2-36765-006-7
45.00 €

Histoire de l'écriture typographique XIXe siècle, tome 1 Jacques André Christian Laucou Nombre de pages : 384
ISBN : 978-2-911220-84-5
44.50 €

Jean Alessandrini Nombre de pages : 120
ISBN : 978-2-911220-60-9
32.90 €

Jean-François Porchez Nombre de pages : 120
Format : 21 x 29 cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-86-9
24.50 €

Les tranchefiles Jane Greenfield Jenny Hille Le regain d'intérêt pour la reliure a entraîné la publication de nombreux manuels pratiques sur toutes les techniques de base mais non sur certains aspects particuliers de cet art. Par exemple, la confection des tranchefiles, ces broderies (...) Nombre de pages : 88
Format : 16 x 23 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-30-2
17.00 €

Little treatise on communication Jean Cloutier This work is the first in a new collection co-published with the Editions Carte Blanche, in Montreal (Quebec). This educational collection is centred around the Internet and multimedia. It complements our educational works dealing with (...) Nombre de pages : 204 pages
Format : 15 x 21 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-07-4
23.00 €

Man and his signs Adrian Frutiger This work is the perfected and updated edition of SIGNS AND MEN, which was published in 1983. It is a long, in-depth reflection that Adrian Frutiger developed during his professional life as both a typeface designer and teacher. Adrian (...) Nombre de pages : 320 pages
Format : 16 x 23 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-05-0
35.00 €

Neurons, words and pixels This is the latest work (May 1999) of the author, well known to readers for his works on legibility, speed reading, linguistics, etc. In a few decades, techniques for conserving and transmitting languages have radically changed: typesetting (...) Nombre de pages : 240 pages
Format : 22 x 22 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-04-3
18.30 €

Papyrus One of the most remarkable inventions of ancient Egypt was making a "paper" from the papyrus plant. Early as 3000 BC, sheets and rolls of papyrus provided a writing surface ideal for copying text by using reeds dipped in pigments based on (...) Nombre de pages : 132
Format : 16 x 23 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-31-9
20.00 €

Phylactères Gaby Bazin Nombre de pages : 216
Format : 16 x 23 cm
ISBN : 978-2-36765-014-2
19.50 €

Règles de l'écriture typographique - nouvelle édition Nombre de pages : 160
Format : 16 x 23 cm
ISBN : 978-2-36765-025-8
25.00 €

The History of Typographical Printing This book is the chronological continuation of the previous work by Yves Perrousseaux, devoted to the period that runs from the Gutenberg press to the 17th Century. The whole set is designed to give an overall and relatively complete view of (...) Nombre de pages : 240
Format : 21 x 29 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-24-1
45.00 €

The History of Typographical Printing The entire set of this several volume History of Typographical Printing is designed to offer an overall and relatively complete view of the subject, according to how we see it today. Pursuing typographic history, this third volume (...) Nombre de pages : 240
ISBN : 978-2-911220-34-0
45.00 €

The language of images Pierre Duplan Former student of the École normale supérieure de l’Enseignement technique, Pierre Duplan is an Honorary Professor at the École supérieure Estienne des arts et industries graphiques, better known as the École Estienne. Encouraged by former and (...) Nombre de pages : 160
ISBN : 978-2-911220-37-1
25.00 €

The power of the letter Ladislas Mandel The path from the thought to the spoken word to the written word is long and bumpy. In the beginning, the written word, a privilege of power and an instrument of the government, spread and became the ideal means for exchanging knowledge and (...) Nombre de pages : 228 pages
Format : 22 x 22 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-10-4
29.50 €

This and that - What you need to know about typographical characters Adrian Frutiger This book of typographic culture is written like a conversation of this and that, and is meant to be read informally, like a conversation between friends, around a fire in the evening, hence its title. Adrian Frutiger presents a good (...) Nombre de pages : 96 pages 2 couleurs
Format : 21 x 29,7 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-08-1
24.00 €

Typex Olivier DELOYE Nombre de pages : 144
Format : 16 x 24 cm
ISBN : 978-2-36765-016-6
24.50 €

Typo et cinéma Lionel Orient Dutrieux Nombre de pages : 160
Format : 16 x 23 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-97-5
19.00 €

Typographic language Pierre Duplan Former student of the École normale supérieure de l’Enseignement technique, Pierre Duplan is an Honorary Professor of graphic arts and industries at the École supérieure Estienne des arts et industries graphiques better known as the École (...) Nombre de pages : 160
ISBN : 978-2-911220-38-8
25.00 €

Webcomics John Barber Webcomics offers a new means of expression for cartoons. Digitally created and distributed via the Internet, the comic strips are both a new publication medium and a new form of artistic expression. The styles vary and can be anything from the (...) Nombre de pages : 192
Format : 23,5 x 25,5 cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-17-3
29.00 €

Writing Ladislas Mandel Taking many a winding path, the representative forms of writing are never the product of chance. Springing from both the body and spirit, writing is man's thinking expressed. From the first primitive scribbles to today's omnipresent (...) Nombre de pages : 240 pages
Format : 22 x 22 cm cm
ISBN : 978-2-911220-03-6
19.00 €