Typotheque Book Collection - typography & graphic design books and magazines

Transparency

Transparency is a study on design and language, Peter Bilak’s MA thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts & Design in Bratislava (1997), designed, written and edited by the author.

34.95 EUR

Theory of Type Design

by Gerard Unger

Theory of Type Design consists of 24 short chapters describing different aspects of type design, from the influence of language to today’s digital developments, from how our eyes and brain process letterforms to their power of expression.

120.00 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 4

Independent art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has gradually widened to cover art, music, language, film and literature.

5.00 EUR

Cotton book bag

A simple cotton bag to carry a couple of books. Eco friendly woven cotton, with long handles. Printed on one side only.

200.00 EUR

New Horizons

by Bruno van den Elshout

Selected as one of the most beautiful books in the world in Leipzig, this remarkable book shows the North Sea horizons taken hourly day and night over the course of a year.

12.00 EUR

Backstage Talks No.3

by Martin Jenča

The third issue of the interview magazine about how design can change business for better by making it both useful and beautiful.

120.00 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 2

Independent art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has gradually widened to cover art, music, language, film and literature.

120.00 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 1

Independent art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has gradually widened to cover art, music, language, film and literature.

5.00 EUR

Typotheque Specimen No.17

The latest Typotheque type specimen, which in 224 pages presents the full font collection, including the future releases.

17.50 EUR

Products of a Thinking Hand

by KABK

This small book documents the work of Cyrus Highsmith— his type design and well as his sketches and drawings at the occasion of Gerrit Noordzij Prize.

16.00 EUR

Empty slipcase for WTW

Empty slipcase designed to house the full set of Works That Work magazine.

295.00 EUR

Boxed Edition Works That Work 1-10

A limited edition full set of Works That Work magazine, in a specially made slipcase.

4.00 EUR

Plotter specimen

Type specimen presented a typeface family Plotter by Nikola Djurek, with extensive essay by Thomas Maier and Florian Hardwig.

16.00 EUR

Works That Work No.10

Final issue of Works That Work magazine. This issue presents a vision of design that we believe in, design as a process that leads to permanent betterment of life and where everyone involved benefits.

5.00 EUR

Cyrillic Type specimen

Typotheque specimen No.13 is our first specimen focusing on Russian Cyrillic.

5.00 EUR

New Hebrew Types

by Michal Sahar

Typotheque Type specimen No.15 presents 21 Hebrew type families, and describes the process of designing them.

16.00 EUR

Works That Work No.9

The Sport and Game issue of WTW, about sport as a powerful tool for shaping the foundations of a community, for solving problems where politicians stalemate and for paving the way for social progress.

5.00 EUR

Related Type Families

by Shiva Nallaperumal

This bilingual English/German type specimen presents Typotheque type families which are available in Sans/Serif or Sans/Slab variations.

12.00 EUR

Backstage Talks No.2

by Martin Jenča

Backstage Talks is an in-depth interview magazine about how design can change business for better by making it both useful and beautiful.

16.00 EUR

Works That Work No.8

This issue of Works That Work magazine is exploring the role of design in the development of Bhutan.

160.00 EUR

Dutch Alphabets

by Mathieu Lommen

Dutch Alphabets is a lettering model book containing 46 plates featuring samples by some of today’s prominent lettering artists, type designers, calligraphers and sign painters.

15.00 EUR

Identitet

Hard cover book about the history of the writing scripts in the Balkan region presenting the history of Latin, Cyrillic, Glagolitic, and Bosnian Arabic.

4.00 EUR

Typonine Sans specimen

Tenth Typonine type specimen consisting of two connected publications each 32 pages long.

4.00 EUR

Surogat type specimen

Eleventh Typonine type specimen presenting Surogat font family.

4.00 EUR

Mote type specimen

Seventh Typonine type specimen presenting Mote font family.

4.00 EUR

Nocturno type specimen

Sixth Typonine type specimen showcasing Nocturno font family.

4.00 EUR

Balkan type specimen

Type specimen presenting the bilingual type system Balkan.

4.00 EUR

Delvard type specimen

Concise type specimen in a form of a poster presenting Delvard Gradient type family.

4.00 EUR

First Typonine specimen

An overview of Nikola Djurek’s fonts in this comprehensive type specimen from Typonine.

28.50 EUR

Nasri Khattar, A Modernist Typotect

by Yara Khoury Nammour

A book about inspiring design achievements from the Arab world. Nasri Khattar,proposed Unified Arabic to make reading Arabic easier to learn.

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The Triumph of Typography

by Ewan Lentjes

A dense book full of investigation of the typographic practice, elaborating on the future and new developments in the field of typography.

100.00 EUR

Works That Work No.7

This issue of WTW strives to probe beyond the visible aspect of design. We look at the invisible organisational principles shaping our lives.

5.00 EUR

Typotheque specimen No.11

A Typotheque type specimen showing entire collection of typefaces, after inclusion of Typonine’s library of fonts.

4.00 EUR

Thema type specimen

Fourth Typonine specimen presenting the Thema typeface family.

4.00 EUR

Tesla type specimen

Twelve Typonine type specimen presenting Tesla Slab font family.

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Audree type specimen

Fifth Typonine type specimen in form of a poster showing all variants of Audree parametric font system.

4.00 EUR

Tremolo, type specimen

Thirteenth Typonine Type Specimen presenting Tremolo font family.

16.00 EUR

Works That Work No.5

This issue of Works That Work is exploring the fine line between breaking the rules and breaking the laws.

40.00 EUR

Bram De Does: Kaba Ornament

by Bram de Does

Bram de Does has conducted extended research into the endless combinations of patterns, ornaments, and borders.

49.50 EUR

Wim Crouwel modernist

by Frederike Huygen

A definite monograph about Wim Crouwel going into great depth to understand the methodology of one of the greatest minds in modern graphic design.

100.00 EUR

Works That Work No.6

Many magazines rush to cover the very latest news, racing to be the first to get a story out. In WTW No. 6 we look at forgotten ideas worth a second look.

25.00 EUR

Experimental Jetset

by Experimental Jetset

First-ever publication on the work of Experimental Jetset, documenting almost two decades of graphic design praxis

29.95 EUR

The Curly Letter of Amsterdam

by Ramiro Espinoza

This book presents the origins of exuberant curly lettering style on the windows of traditional Dutch cafés and bars.

16.00 EUR

Works That Work No.4

If necessity is the mother of invention, extreme environments must be hotbeds of innovation. This issue of Works That Work finds out.

35.00 EUR

Trinité & Lexicon

by Bram de Does

This book contains two essays by the Dutch typographer and type designer Bram de Does on the development of his two typefaces Trinité and Lexicon.

5.00 EUR

Typotheque specimen No.10

This type specimen makes typeface selection easier and more fun with split pages that let you create over 10,000 type combinations.

15.00 EUR

Neutral

by Kai Bernau

The research behind Neutral, typeface that was constructed based on a set of parameters derived by measuring a number of popular 20th-century Sans Serif fonts.

16.00 EUR

Works That Work No.3

In this issue we look at designs from the past that have shaped the present, and designs from the present that will affect the future.

16.00 EUR

Works That Work No.2

In this issue of WTW we look at inventions as deceptively simple as the shipping container and as staggeringly complex as an intercontinental aircraft.

100.00 EUR

Works That Work No.1

The pilot issue demonstrates that creativity is not the exclusive domain of artists or designers, but something that surrounds us in our daily lives.

12.50 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 17

Issue 17 of the Dot Dot Dot magazine covers design in the widest possible sense while steering clear of both commercial portfolio presentations.

12.50 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 19

After eighteen issues, Dot Dot Dot remains the must-read journal. Curiously it has become the venue for creative writing on the most diverse subjects.

12.50 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 18

Dot Dot Dot began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has gradually widened to cover art, music, language, film and literature.

4.00 EUR

Greta Sans specimen

Wim Crouwel, Gerrit Noordzij Prize

This type specimen features in detail Greta Sans type family and includes the extensive article on the process of designing type systems.

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by KABK

This book focuses on Crouwel’s typographic work, and presents in detail his typefaces and process sketches. Crouwel is known for his systematic and ordered approach to design, and book includes transcripts of two of his lectures.

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Back Cover No.4

by Alexandre Dimos

Fourth issue of Back Cover, a bilingual French graphic design magazine. In this issue: A Conversation with Karel Martens, Wim Crouwel, Joost Hochuli, and more.

15.00 EUR

Karel Martens Printed matter / Drukwerk

158 answers

by type]media KABK

This book presents eleven interviews with renowned type designers and writers, interviewed by students of Type Media postgraduate course in type design.

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by Robin Kinross

This is the third edition of Karel Martens’s celebrated book Printed matter / Drukwerk Compared to the second edition from 2001, 40 pages have been added, and show work that Martens have done in those 9 years, and includes an interview with Martens.

10.00 EUR

The National Grid No.6

by Luke Wood

Not quite 'magazine' and not quite 'academic journal', The National Grid defined its own vision of graphic design .

65.00 EUR

Irma Boom: Architecture of the Book

by Irma Boom

This miniature book contains a complete overview of Irma Boom’s oeuvre, with commentary in 800 pages.

8.00 EUR

Typotheque specimen (hardcover) No.7

The complete Typotheque collection, information about OpenType and its typographic features, in a hard cover limited edition.

18.00 EUR

Open Manifesto No.3

by Kevin Finn

Australian graphic design magazine Open Manifesto provides thoughtful and thought provoking writing on graphic design. Issue 3 includes themes such as cultural exchange, the Israeli/Palestinian issue, and the ego in design.

150.00 EUR

Typeface as Program

by François Rappo

Typeface as Program documents results of workshops at the ECAL school. The books presents some basic idea of automated type design, breaking down the design of letters to series of parameters.

25.00 EUR

Back Cover No.2

by Alexandre Dimos

Back Cover (formerly known as Marie Louise) is a French magazine interested in design history and visual universe. Now with full English translation. Published twice a year.

10.00 EUR

The National Grid No.5

by Luke Wood

Eclectic mix of contents from New Zealand ranging from design definitions to fiction and music.

12.50 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 16

A publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has gradually widened to cover art, music, language, politics, film and literature.

16.00 EUR

Detail in typography

by Jost Hochuli

A concise yet rich discussion of all the small things that enhance the legibility of texts. A guide to micro-typography considering all text situations.

5.00 EUR

Masculine / Feminine

This folder / poster presents a selection of projects done by Johanna and Peter Biľak from 1998 to 2007.

12.50 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 14

Art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has widened to cover art, music, language, politics, film and literature.

50.00 EUR

Marie Louise (No.1, 2, 3)

by Alexandre Dimos

A tool that we need: new (and only serious) French magazine interested in design history and visual universe. With contributions by Peter Biľak, Laurent Le Bon, deValence (Alexandre Dimos, Gaël Étienne), Anne Lemonnier, Philippe Millot, Étienne Mineur, NORM, Stefan Sagmeister, etc.

12.50 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 13

Bi-annual independent art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has gradually widened to cover art, music, language, politics, film and literature.

50.00 EUR

Graphic Design in the White Cube

Catalogue of an accompanying exhibition of the 22nd International Biennale of Graphic Design Brno 2006. The exhibition critically questions possibilities of organising graphic design exhibitions today, and documents reactions of invited designers.

75.00 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 11

Art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has widened to cover art, music, language, politics, film and literature.

120.00 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 6

Bi-annual independent art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has gradually widened to cover art, music, language, film and literature.

120.00 EUR

Dot Dot Dot X

DDDX is a montage of articles drawn from issues 2–9. This is not a retrospective act, more a logical next step; a slight return in response to the self-righteous statment of intent on the cover of issue 1; a reply to ourselves after five years’ trial & error.

12.50 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 9

This magazine began life as a graphic design journal, but whose content has gradually widened to cover other areas.

12.50 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 8

Art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has widened to cover art, music, language, film and literature.

12.50 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 7

Art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has widened to cover art, music, language, film and literature.

120.00 EUR

Dot Dot Dot 3

Independent art/design publication which began life as a graphic design magazine, but whose content has gradually widened to cover art, music, language, film and literature.

15.00 EUR

We Want You To Love Type

by Johanna Biľak

This publication presents work of Czech and Slovak designers focused on the process of creating innovative typographic solutions

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Metro Letters

by Deborah Littlejohn

Metro Letters documents the responses to the question ‘Can a typeface express what is unique about a city’, presenting the projects and interviews with six invited typographers.

65.00 EUR

Bram de Does

by Mathieu Lommen

This is the first publication devoted to De Does’s life and work best known as a type and book designer, creator of typefaces Trinité and Lexicon.

275.00 EUR

Dutch Type

by Jan Middendorp

Comprehensive overview of type design in the Netherlands from the fifteenth century till 2004. The book provides insights into the methods of the Dutch type.

75.00 EUR