A life devoted to typographyAdrian FrutigerAdrian 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 €
Abécédaire des mots de la finSeyhan Argun, Hugo Blanchet Juliette Cazes
Nombre de pages : 256 ISBN : 978-2-36765-037-1 25.00 €
Abécédaire illustré des mots voyageursHugo Blanchet Anouck Ferri
L’idée de cet ouvrage est née de l’activité de vulgarisation de l’auteur, docteur en linguistique ancienne, sur les réseaux sociaux : Hugo Blanchet y a en effet constaté aussi bien l’intérêt que le public peut porter aux origines des mots (...)
Nombre de pages : 208 Format : 16 x 24 cm ISBN : 978-2-36765-028-9 19.90 €
Arabic writingThis book, abundantly illustrated with examples, very clearly presents the evolution of Arab writing styles, and particularly shines light on the importance of materials used; both media and instruments, as well as the difficulties that needed (...)
Nombre de pages : 112 Format : 17 x 24 cm ISBN : 978-2-911220-23-4 25.00 €
Berber manuscripts in North Africa and in European collectionsProceedings of the Aix-en-Provence research symposium
This is a collection of the Proceedings of the Aix-en-Provence research symposium that took place on December 9 and 10, 2002, led by the Book Conservation Center, within the context of (...)
Nombre de pages : 176 Format : 16 x 23 cm ISBN : 978-2-911220-18-0 24.50 €
BoltanaFrank 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 €
Books and readers in Provence in the 18thGilles EboliDiscrete citizens of the "Republic of letters," seventeenth century provincial printer-booksellers played a major role locally in written communication and the circulation of ideas. Their archives, so rare during the Ancien Régime period, are (...)
Nombre de pages : 320 Format : 16 x 23 cm cm ISBN : 978-2-911220-25-8 32.00 €
Cathedral Books and LibrariesCéline GiordanoFrom their very beginnings, cathedrals and their dignitaries
have had need of books, whether for celebrating mass, preaching to
worshippers, or managing their worldly goods.
Starting with a rich corpus of more than two hundred archived
texts (...)
Nombre de pages : 192 ISBN : 978-2-911220-32-6 35.00 €
Chinese writingSince
the
first
traces of
a process of
writing, appeared
in Northern
China
around 1200
BC.,
the
Chinese writing
system has
been
used
by millions
of users of
great
number
of languages.
This
book
presents
one
of the
oldest writing systems
in (...)
Nombre de pages : 96 ISBN : 978-2-911220-35-7 19.00 €
Choosing the right font (advanced class)Gérard BlanchardThis 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 formHerman LampaertThis 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 TypefacesRémi JimenesThe “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 80Jean Alessandrini
Nombre de pages : 120 Format : 11 x 18 cm ISBN : 978-2-36765-015-9 12.00 €
Coffret + jaquette pour la collection Histoire de l'écriture typographique
ISBN : 978-2-36765-010-4 50.00 €
Collection Histoire de l'écriture typographique - (Coffret de 7 volumes) Jacques André
Nombre de pages : 1 900 ISBN : 978-2-36765-009-8 299.00 €
Entre l'élite et la plèbeJean-Noël Lafargue
Nombre de pages : 176 ISBN : 978-2-911220-42-5 25.00 €
ExcoffonRoger 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 €
Gifts and Legacies in Public LibrariesSeveral recent laws have multiplied the categories and
conditions that enable heritage institution collections to be
exploited. It is sometimes difficult for their managers, who rarely
have backgrounds in law, to pinpoint the legislations they (...)
Nombre de pages : 220 ISBN : 978-2-911220-33-3 35.00 €
Grilles et macro-typographie de la page Web.Anne-Sophie Fradier
Nombre de pages : 128 Format : 16 x 23 cm ISBN : 978-2-911220-44-9 15.00 €
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 €
Guide to color and printed imagesEmmanuel FlorioThis manual is written for people whose communication relies on printed images, whether in a Macintosh or a PC environment, in both professional and non-professional contexts.
Scanning images, integrating them into a page layout, or sending (...)
Nombre de pages : 176 pages Format : 16 x 23 cm cm ISBN : 978-2-911220-06-7 30.00 €
Histoire de l'écriture typographique - Le XXe siècleJacques 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/IIJacques André
Nombre de pages : 264 ISBN : 978-2-36765-006-7 45.00 €
Histoire de l'écriture typographique XIXe siècle, tome 1Jacques 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 €
La lisibilité de la typographie sur InternetAurélien Foutoyet
Nombre de pages : 168 ISBN : 978-2-911220-43-2 21.00 €
Les tranchefilesJane Greenfield Jenny HilleLe 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 communicationJean CloutierThis 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 signsAdrian FrutigerThis 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 €
Manual of basic typographyThis is an educational work tool which can be used like a grammar book or dictionary. It is written for all those who are called upon to do DTP in their work but who do not have previous typographical knowledge to keep them from stumbling. (...)
Nombre de pages : 128 Format : 16 x 23 cm cm ISBN : 978-2-911220-00-5 20.00 €
Maux du jourOlivier DELOYE
Nombre de pages : 96 Format : 16 x 16 cm ISBN : 978-2-36765-034-0 15.00 €
Moris Fuller bentonOlivier Chariau
Nombre de pages : 120 Format : 21 x 29 cm ISBN : 978-2-36765-013-5 26.00 €
Neurons, words and pixelsThis 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 €
PhylactèresGaby Bazin
Nombre de pages : 216 Format : 16 x 23 cm ISBN : 978-2-36765-014-2 19.50 €
Printing and page layoutThis is the complement of the Basic Typography Manual and, like it, an educational tool. It is written for people who must produce leaflets, brochures, newsletters or even books and who have not yet mastered the necessary layout skills. (...)
Nombre de pages : 160 pages 2 couleurs Format : 16 x 23 cm cm ISBN : 978-2-911220-01-2 30.50 €
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 elation of writingRoger DruetRoger Druet is a painter, calligrapher, writer and typography professor. A former student at the School of Applied Arts, and the School of Fine Arts (in architecture), he later studied typography and character design at the Deberny & Peignot (...)
Nombre de pages : 128 Format : 22,5 x 22,5 cm cm ISBN : 978-2-911220-27-2 39.00 €
