Rhyme and Reason: A Typographical Novel
by Erik Spiekermann
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Ideas about elements of printing, both technical and aesthetic, told in an amusing manner.Tags
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This is a tricky book to review if you've read Spiekermann's later work, "Stop Stealing Sheep." It's not that "Rhyme & Reason" is a bad book, it's just that "Stop Stealing Sheep" covers basically the same material, but does a much better job. (It helps that it's almost twice as long, printed in color and the technology references are a couple of decades more up-to-date.)
So, this is a good little book, but if you've got access to "Stop Stealing Sheep," you don't need to track this one down, except as a curiosity.
So, this is a good little book, but if you've got access to "Stop Stealing Sheep," you don't need to track this one down, except as a curiosity.
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Erik Spiekermann is an information architect, author of books and articles on type and typography, and the designer of such typefaces as FF Meta, ITC Officina, FF Info, LoType, and Berliner Grotesk, among others. Founder of MetaDesign, Spiekermann now works as a freelance design consultant E.M. Ginger is a writer and editor whose work with type show more and typography spans printing and display technologies from letterpress to digital. After 12 years as managing editor of the journal Fine Print, she was a manager in the Adobe Originals Type Group, and at FontShop San Francisco. She is currently executive editor at Octavo, in Oakland, California show less
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