Course Overview
Development of typography as a discipline: an overview of historical, technical and aesthetics issues. Typography for the print and the digital media. Effect of technology on changing practice of typography and the role of typographers. • Typography as communication. Experimental typography and the need for experiments. • Digital Typography: emerging directions and new possibilities. • Typography for Indian Languages and scripts. Issues of bi-lingual and multi-lingual typography. • The course will be conducted through discussions, seminars and individuals assignments in selected areas.
| Total Credits | 4.0 |
| Type | Theory |
| Lecture | 2.0 |
| Half Semester | N |
| Text Reference | 302225 Aicher Otl, Typographie, Ernst & Sohn, 1988.302225 Naik Bapurao, Typography of Devanagari, 3 vols., Directorate of Languages, Bombay, 1971.302225 Schmid Helmut, Typography Today, 2nd Edition, Seibundo Shinkosha, 2003.302225 Weingart Wolfgang, Typography, Lars Muller Publishers, 2000.302225 Friedl, Friedrich; Ott, Nicholas and Stein, Bernard; Typography-an encyclopedic survey of type design and techniques throughout history.302225 Klare, G.R.A: manuals for readable writing, RemCo, Maryland, 1975.302225 Seybold, J.W: fundamentals of modern composition, Seybold publications Inc, Pennsylvania, 1977.302225 Kolers, P.A. Wrolstad, M.E. and Bouma. H (Eds): Processing of visual language, vol.2. plenum, New York, 1980.302225 Heller, Steven (Ed): The education of a typographer.302225 Swann, Cal. Language and Typography. London : Lund Humphries, 1991.302225 Poynor, Rick (ed). Typography now : the next wave. Internos Books.302225 Rafaeli, Ari; Book Typography. Delaware: Oak Knoll Press 2005302225 Heller, Steven and Meggs, Philip.B.; Texts on Type. Critical writings on Typography. |
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Prof. Girish Vinod Dalvi
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