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1,000 Type Treatments: From Script to Serif, Letterforms Used to Perfection | 
 enlarge | Author: Wilson Harvey
Publisher: Rockport Publishers Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: £27.50
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 45674
Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 8.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1592531598
Dewey Decimal Number: 686.22
UPC: 080665315985
EAN: 9781592531592
ASIN: 1592531598
Publication Date: May 27, 2005
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 Great for inspiration April 9, 2008
Jens Ahrengot Boddum (Denmark)
I bought this one a couple of months ago, and i have used it as a source of inspiration for almost every piece of display typography i've had to put together since then.
It's a bible of what's possible if you spend money on spot colors, metallics and things like that, but it's also great inspiration for your daily headers, covers etc. if you want to give them that extra something.
I really enjoy the way it's been divided up into: flyers+leaflets, books + magazines, logos + stationary, brochures, posters + banners, 3D + Outdoor + Digital(web mostly). It makes it very easy and fast to find inspiration for just the kind of assignment you're working on.
As someone esle mentioned each example has a number assigned to it. If you go in the back of the books there's a database of all these numbers, where it says who did the work, who was the client, which designers and art directors worked on it. what program was used and which fonts.
 A missed opportunity April 28, 2007
Haddock (UK)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I agree to a certain extent with the last review, but have a strong gripe of my own. I bought this book for a quick reference to show me how combinations of fonts work. I wanted something inspiring that's super quick to use, as a well designed object should be.
My major gripe with this book is that you have to refer to an index at the back to see what fonts are used for any given design ~ this is very frustrating. I think it really is a missed opportunity because there is a huge area of blank (wasted) space on each page where that all important information should be. Instead of using this space, the author will have you flipping from the page with the design you're interested in to the back of the book to find out which design agency did the work then you have to find the design number under their listing just to find out which fonts are used! A total waste of time and a very good example of bad design!
This one's going back to Amazon.
All just soulless style :( March 7, 2007
Frank Blank (Ireland)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
No analysis of why any of the type was selected. This book is just anything that plays with type; most of it I have to say is poor. Looks more to me like just get a lot of `nice' and trendy images of type, don't think what they are for, if they work. It's the sort of book you pick up and flick through. If like me you bough it, you think what a waste of money, printing and paper. I'm tired of this kind of book that one learns nothing from; it's just sickly sweet candy for the eyes.
 typo candy August 29, 2006
loopy_lou (somewhere i wish i wasnt)
3 out of 16 found this review helpful
The book its self is very nice its one of those that feels nice and when u open it u think oh this is nice , lots to see not too much writing but it does tell u who designed each piece and then at the back it tells u what software , typeface was used etc , its the sort of book u pick up to cheer yourself up when ur sick of looking at the same old tierd stuff and u come away thinking that was nice and refreshing.
I have now decieded to buy the image treatments too purley down to this book
Superb May 21, 2006
Tara (Northants, UK)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is excellent if you want to look at inspirational modern photography. I have been looking for something along these lines for ages. Great if your stuck for typographic ideas. I thought this book was so good I then bought 1000 graphic elements too.
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