Focusing on how graphic designers tackle the ordering of number-heavy information, this book shows how the best design minds around grapple with timetables, annual reports, and other data-rich documents. It also includes a chapter outlining the basic typographic and detailing rules relating to numbers. Featuring the work of such names as Stefan Sagmeister, Karin von Ompteda, Joost Grootens, Socket Studio, Stapelberg & Fritz, Form, Willi Kunz, Helmut Schmid, Build, and Cartlidge Levene, Numbers in Graphic Design is bursting with inspirational examples of how to approach almost any design situation featuring numbers. Numbers in Graphic Design is the sourcebook for any designer who wants to be able to work with numbers creatively and with confidence.
Author(s): Roger Fawcett-Tang
Edition: 1
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Year: 2012
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 321
Tags: Graphic Arts; Numbers In Art; Graphic Design (Typography)
Cover
Half title
Copyright
Title
Contents, page 1
Contents, page 2
Chapter 1: Addition
Timelines
Counting methods
Chapter 2: Data
Quantification
Statistics
Report and accounts
Chapter 3: Order
Timetables
Listings
Chapter 4: Chronology
Calendars
Diaries
Clocks
Chapter 5: Abstraction
Deformation
Type design
Chapter 6: Form
Graphic
Digits
Chapter 7: Multiplication
Signage systems
Supergraphics
Chapter 8: Subtraction
Reduction
Simplification
AppendixRules+Detailing
