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Modern Western calligraphy has seldom been recognized as an art form. Correcting this oversight, Jerry Kelly presents major examples of calligraphic art by over 80 artists spanning the years 1906-2016. He demonstrates that in the computer age, the art of beautiful writing not only lives but thrives. The catalogue accompanied the eponymous Grolier Club. With a preface by Jerry Kelly and an introduction by Christopher Calderhead.

Published to accompany the 2019 Grolier Club exhibition Alphabet Magic: A Centennial Exhibition of the Work of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf, Herman Zapf and the World He Designed is the first comprehensive biography of Hermann Zapf (1918-2015), whom Robert Bringhurst has called "the greatest type designer of our time, and very possibly the greatest type designer of all time." Informed by Jerry Kelly's scrupulous research at the Hermann Zapf archive i...

The story of a foundational aspect of publishing, from Gutenberg‿s press to today‿s digital type.   It‿s common knowledge that the name Gutenberg and the words “moveable type� go together. What‿s far less known is that Garamond, Baskerville, and Bodoni aren‿t just font options in a word processing dropdown menu, but the names of some of the real punchcutters and type designers who raised the essential work of typography to the l...

The Easiest Low Carb Diet for BeginnersYour Customers Never Stop to Use this Awesome Book!Now you can eat your favorite meals without all the carbs, time-consuming prep, and hard-to-find ingredients. THis Cookbook is filled with a creative mix of familiar and brand-new recipes that can be adapted to fit any low carb diet.Whether you're cutting carbs to lose weight, feel better, or manage a health concern, this comprehensive low carb cookbook o...

Probably no book designer of the twentieth century has had more written about him, his work, or his life than Bruce Rogers. He was, as his primary biographer Joseph Blumenthal observed, the ultimate "artificer of the book." His career as a working designer spanned six decades, but arguably his finest (and certainly his happiest) years were spent at Cambridge's Riverside Press where he took over from D. B. Updike in 1896 and where he remained u...

Fine art and fine bookmaking meet in this full color selection of 77 books from Europe and the Americas. The authors select, and comment upon, the "best of both worlds": books whose pages reveal the best graphic work of the past century, artwork from the hands of masters as diverse as Braque, Calder, Dine, Hockney, Mapplethorpe, Matisse, Maillol, Picasso, Oldenburg and Rivers-coupled with memorable texts orchestrated by the best designers, pri...

An indispensable guide to hundreds of important modern versions of earlier typefaces, presenting clear and concise discussions of origins, permutations, and contemporary digital availability.For typographers, revival type forms an integral part of their font repertoire. Older classics such as Baskerville, Garamond, and Bodoni are imbedded fonts in standard operating system collections and continue to serve their users well, being the trusted g...

The art of Alice Koeth, known professionally as Alice, one of the world's most respected calligraphers.In a career spanning more than sixty years, Alice's artistry exemplifies taste, technique, wit, and her own unique graphic style. A keen understanding of craft, respect for tools, and interest in historical forms have contributed to her command of calligraphy.Whether using Coit and Automatic pens or the smallest of Speedball nibs, this versat...

Here viewed as a pastime through the eyes of a lifelong amateur player, baseball unfolds as an experience of motion and time and senses. These interwoven essays reflect on the pursuit of a ball and on what is crucially human.

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This is a textbook introducing selected topics in formal social choice theory. Social choice theory studies group choices that are based on information about preferences of members of the group (voting rules being one important special case). This involves economics, which provides the method of modelling individual decision making, political philosophy, which provides criteria about the allocation of decision-influencing power, and game theor...

Roughly fifteen years after Gutenberg printed the first substantial book in Mainz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized among the most beautiful typefaces ever created. Based on the humanistic calligraphy of the Renaissance, an even and infinitely various set of lowercase letters that had evolved from the Carolingian minuscules of the ninth century, Jenson's types were a miracle of proportion and evenn...

IN THE GRIP OF THE IRON CURTAIN takes place in ravaged Berlin -- a decade after the conclusion of World War II. The island city of three million citizens is isolated deep into Communist-dominated occupied territory. More than thirty spy organizations from countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain operate in the former capitol city, while the majority of Berliners still live and work in the ruins of bombed and artillery-shelled buildings. Ste...