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The AIGA archives serve to identify, preserve, and make collections of enduring value available to the public. With more than 20,000 selections dating back to 1924, the AIGA Design Archives is a vital record of all disciplines of communication design.

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The GDA at the Rochester Institute of Technology documents and preserves the work of significant American graphic designers active from the1920s to the 1960s, as well as selected contemporary designers working in the modernist traditions. 

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Dedicated to preserving and making accessible significant works by designers, illustrators and art directors who have close ties to the School of Visual Arts. Media includes sketches and original art, posters, printed samples and ephemera, audio and video recordings and photographic material.

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Typography Research Tips

   When browsing the catalog consider these tips:
  •    Searching by subject:
    • Graphic Design Typography
    • Type & Type-Founding 
  •    Looking by Call Numbers:
    • Z  246 Typography
    • NC 997-1003 Commerical Art / Advertising Art 

   Please see below for a more specific reference list

Typography / Type-founding Bibliography

Adobe Type Library. 2012. Berkeley, Calif. : Peachpit Press.

Branding Typography : Elegant, Retro, Handwritten, Experimental, Minimal 2013. Berkeley, Calif. : Gingko Press.

FUSE 1-20 from Invention to Antimatter : Twenty Years of FUSE 2012. Koln : Taschen.

I Love Bodoni. 2011. Hong Kong : Viction:ary : Viction:workshop Ltd.

Typography Today. 2009. Shenzhen, China : Artpower International.

Typoholic A to Z. Typoholic Font to Form. 2012. Hong Kong : Viction:workshop.

Ambrose, Gavin. 2006. Fundamentals of Typography. Lausanne : New York : AVA Academia ; Distributed by Watson-Guptill,.

Bartram, Alan,. 2005. Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Bartram, Alan. 2004. Bauhaus, Modernism, and the Illustrated Book. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Blackwell, Lewis, Lewis Blackwell, and Twentieth-century type. 2004. 20th-Century Type. New & rev. ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Bruckner, D. J. R. and Frederic W. Goudy. 1990. Frederic Goudy. Masters of American Design; Variation: Masters of American Design. New York: Documents of American Design : H.N. Abrams.

Burgess, Paul,. 2012. Design/type : A Seductive Collection of Alluring Type Designs. Beverly, MA : Rockport Publishers.

Dair, Carl. 1967. Design with Type. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Dodd, Robin. 2006. From Gutenberg to Opentype : An Illustrated History of Type from the Earliest Letterforms to the Latest Digital Fonts. Vancouver: Hartley & Marks.

Felton, Paul. 2006. The Ten Commandments of Typography : Type Heresy. London ; New York : Merrell.

Garfield, Simon. 2011. Just My Type : A Book about Fonts. New York, New York: Gotham Books.

Gottschall, Edward M. and Aaron Burns. 1989. Typographic Communications Today. 1st MIT Press ed. New York, NY; Cambridge, Mass: International Typeface Co; MIT Press.

Haley, Allan. 2012. Typography, Referenced : A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History, and Practice of Typography. Beverly, MA: Rockport Publishers.

Haller, Lynn,. 1999. Type. Cincinnati, Ohio : North Light Books.

Hardisty, J. Namdev. 2010. Function, Restraint, and Subversion in Typography. New York : Princeton Architectural Press,.

Harkins, Michael. "Using Type." Lausanne, Switzerland : AVA Academia ; La Vergne, TN : Distributed in the USA & Canada by Ingram Publisher Services, .

Heller, Steven. 2012. New Modernist Type. New York : Thames & Hudson.

Heller, Steven. 2011. Typography Sketchbooks. New York : Princeton Architectural Press.

Heller, Steven. "The Education of a Typographer." Allworth Press.

Heller, Steven and Gail Anderson. 2010. New Ornamental Type : Decorative Lettering in the Digital Age. New York: Thames & Hudson.

Heller, Steven and Louise Fili. 1999. Typology : Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Heller, Steven and Philip B. Meggs. 2001. Texts on Type : Critical Writings on Typography. New York: Allworth Press.

Houston, Keith. 2013. Shady Characters : The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, & Other Typographical Marks. First edition ed. New York ; London: W.W. Norton & Company.

Hustwit, Gary, Shelby Siegel, Luke Geissbühler, and Brian Betancourt. 2007. Helvetica

Jubert, Roxane. 2006. Typography and Graphic Design : From Antiquity to the Present. Paris : Flammarion.

Jury, David. 2006. What is Typography?. Mies ; Hove : RotoVision.

King, Emily. 2005. Robert Brownjohn Sex and Typography : 1925-1970, Life and Work. New York : Princeton Architectural Press.

Lawson, Alexander S. 1990. Anatomy of a Typeface. 1st ed. Boston: Godine.

Longyear, William. 1966. Type & Lettering. 4th ed., rev. and enl ed. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications.

Loxley, Simon. "Type the Secret History of Letters." London ; New York : I.B. Tauris.

Lupton, Ellen. 2010. Thinking with Type : A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students. 2nd rev. and expanded ed. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Malsy, Victor, Lars Müller, Axel Langer, and Indra Kupferschmid. 2009. Helvetica forever: story of a typeface. Baden, Switzerland: Lars Müller. 

McLean, Ruari. 1995. Typographers on Type : An Illustrated Anthology from William Morris to the Present Day. 1st American ed. New York: Norton.

Morison, Stanley and Kenneth Day. 1963. The Typographic Book, 1450-1935 : A Study of Fine Typography through Five Centuries, Exhibited in Upwards of Three Hundred and Fifty Title and Text Pages Drawn from Presses Working in the European Tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Pao, Imin and Joshua Berger. 2006. 30 Essential Typefaces for a Lifetime. Gloucester, Mass; Hove: Rockport; RotoVision, distributor.

Scher, Paula. 2002. Make it bigger. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Scher, Paula. 2011. Paula Scher: maps : paintings, installations, drawings and prints. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Spiekermann, Erik and E. M. Ginger. 2003. Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out how Type Works. 2nd ed. Berkeley, Calif: Adobe Press.

Tinker, Miles A. 1963. Legibility of Print. Ames: Iowa State University Press.

TwoPoints.Net, and editor. 2012.I Love Franklin Gothic. I Love Type Series; v. 6; Variation: I Love Type Series ; v. 6. North Point, Hong Kong: Viction:ary.

White, Alex. 2007. Advertising Design and Typography. New York : Allworth Press.

Zapf, Hermann. 1970. About Alphabets; some Marginal Notes on Type Design. Uniform Title: Alphabetgeschichten. English. Rev. ed. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press.

-------------. 1987. Hermann Zapf & His Design Philosophy : Selected Articles and Lectures on Calligraphy and Contemporary Developments in Type Design, with Illustrations and Bibliographical Notes, and a Complete List of His Typefaces. Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts.

In the Library

Z250.T985
 

Typographic Universe
NK1510.H444 2014
 

Type Player. 3 : type as experiment,
type as image
N8219.L4 T972 2015
 

Typography sketchbooks
Z246.H445 2011
 

Fundamentals of Typography
Z246 .A555 2006