The Triumph of Typography
Culture, Communication, New Media
compiled and ed. by Henk Hoeks and Ewan Lentjes ; with contr. by Petr Blokland, Yuri Engelhardt, Peter Bil'ak ...[et al.]

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Editor(s)

Henk Hoeks, Ewan Lentjes

Publication, year

Arnhem ; Houten : ArtEZ Press : Uitgeverij Terra, 2015

Scope

360 Pages, illustrated, 25 cm.

ISBN

9789089896285

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Typography touches on one of the key values of our society: the printed free word and democratic discourse. The new-media technology calls into question our accepted notion of typographic communication and raises a number of essential questions that we cannot ignore. Never since Gutenberg's invention of moveable type in the fifteenth century has typographic communication been exposed to such a fundamental change as it is today. Can typography still play a significant role when digitisation and new media shake at the foundations of the typographic trade? Now this trade finds itself at a crossroads. What direction will it take in its further development?

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Location

Cabinet 13 - 5: Grafische vormgeving ; Typografie

Remarks

Incl. Bibliography and Index.