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Albertus - The Biography of a Typeface (the ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield
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Category: Graphic Design | Series: The\ABC of Fonts Ser.
One of the most beautiful handcrafted typefaces in the world, Albertus is also one of the most enduring. The face of thousands of book jackets, and the chosen look for David Bowie, Coldplay, Star Wars and London street signs, Albertus is as as warmly enticing on film posters as it is on memorial plaques ...Show more
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by Simon Garfield
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Category: History
The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a sense of absolute wisdom on its reader. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gan ...Show more
All the Knowledge in the World - The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by Simon Garfield
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Category: History
Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults cleared their shelves in the belief that wisdom was now effortlessly accessible in their living rooms. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gandhi helped mill ...Show more
Baskerville - The Biography of a Typeface (the ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield
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Category: Graphic Design | Series: The\ABC of Fonts Ser.
The classic elegant English typeface, still widely used as a book text more than 250 years since its creation. Baskerville is a transitional design, poised between the first metal types and modern styles, notable for its combination of fat and thin strokes. When it was first used there was genuine conce ...Show more
Comic Sans - The Biography of a Typeface (the ABC of Fonts) by Simon Garfield
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Category: Graphic Design | Series: The\ABC of Fonts Ser.
Comic Sans is one of the most used and most reviled typefaces of the digital age. How was it made? How could it spawn a movement to ban it and yet still be so widely promoted by educators? What does its accidental creator make of its contentious and singular history?This quirky and unique book considers ...Show more
In Miniature - How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield
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Category: Non-Fiction
Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans' peculiar fascination with small things--and what small things tell us about our larger world." Simon Garfield is] an exuberant truffle-hound of the recondite and delightful factoid." --Sunday Times (Lon ...Show more
In Miniature - How Small Things Illuminate the World by Simon Garfield
29.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans' peculiar fascination with small things-and what small things tell us about our larger world. Simon Garfield writes books that shine a light on aspects of the everyday world in order to reveal the charm ...Show more
Mauve by Simon Garfield
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Category: History | Series: Canons Ser.
1856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has discovered mauve, the world's first synthetic dye, brid ...Show more
On the Map : Why the World Looks the Way it Does by Simon Garfield
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Category: History
Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. With a historical sw ...Show more
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