DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Thinking About Drawing
An Introduction to Themes and Concepts
Simon Grennan A short, illustrated guide to key ideas that are used to describe, understand and explain drawing. This book explains the significance of relationships between the body and the mark, visual imitation, drawing and writing and visual storytelling, providing a simple guide to these key ideas. It presents an unexpected and authoritative range of illustrated examples of drawings made by culturally and historically diverse people for different purposes, with different media, in widely different times and situations. The book showcases drawing styles covering thousands of years from: France, Switzerland, Greece, China, United Kingdom, Australia, Iran, India, Japan, United States of America, Iraq, Canada, Nigeria, Germany, Brazil, Italy, Russia, Chile, Turkey, Polynesia, Mexico, Estonia, Argentina, Belgium, Ethiopia, Poland, Thailand, and the Czech Republic. Simon Grennan is an awarded scholar of visual narrative, Leading Research Fellow at the University of Chester, graphic novelist and half of international artists team Grennan & Sperandio, producer of over 40 comics and books. April 2022 81 colour illus 176 pages 216 x 138mm 9781350265936 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Type Specimens
A Visual History of Typesetting and Printing
Dori Griffin An illustrated introduction to the history of the promotion, selling and showcasing of typefaces through specimens, using never-before-published examples. Type Specimens introduces readers to the history of typography and printing through a chronological visual tour of the books, posters, and ephemera designed to sell fonts to printers, publishers, and eventually graphic designers. Over 200 colour images help to guide design educators, advanced design students, design practitioners, and type aficionados through four centuries of visual and trade history, equipping them to contextualise the aesthetics and production of type in a way that is practical, engaging, and relevant to their practice. January 2022 200 colour illus 256 pages 246 x 189mm 9781350116597 Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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Dori Griffin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art + Design at Ohio University, where she teaches graphic design and design history.
