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        The Hidden Factor

        The Hidden Factor

        Mark and Gesture in Visual Design

        by Steven Skaggs

        ISBN: 9780262048569

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 21, 2023

        An exquisitely illustrated introduction to the gestural mark in the designed world, exploring the tension between marks, which are felt, and images and words, which are conceptual.
        From ASCII Art to Comic Sans

        From ASCII Art to Comic Sans

        Typography and Popular Culture in the Digital Age

        by Karin Wagner

        ISBN: 9780262546140

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 19, 2023

        A fresh and provocative take on typography, computing, and popular culture, viewed through four idiosyncratic typographical phenomena from the digital age.
        The Typographic Medium

        The Typographic Medium

        by Kate Brideau

        ISBN: 9780262045858

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: October 12, 2021

        An innovative examination of typography as a medium of communication rather than part of print or digital media.
        absence of clutter

        absence of clutter

        minimal writing as art and literature

        by Paul Stephens

        ISBN: 9780262043670

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: March 17, 2020

        An exploration of minimal writing—texts generally shorter than a sentence—as complex, powerful literary and visual works.
        The Eternal Letter

        The Eternal Letter

        Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital

        Edited by Paul Shaw

        With Scott-Martin Kosofsky

        ISBN: 9780262029018

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 30, 2015

        A generously illustrated examination of the enduring influence of and many variations on the classical Roman capital letter.
        Helvetica and the New York City Subway System

        Helvetica and the New York City Subway System

        The True (Maybe) Story

        by Paul Shaw

        With Scott-Martin Kosofsky

        ISBN: 9780262015486

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 11, 2011

        How New York City subways signage evolved from a “visual mess” to a uniform system with Helvetica triumphant.
        Pioneers of Modern Typography

        Pioneers of Modern Typography

        by Herbert Spencer

        Foreword by Rick Poynor

        With Roger W. Spencer

        ISBN: 9780262693035

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 6, 2004

        A revised edition of the standard guide to the avant-garde origins of modern graphic design and typography, illustrated with many iconic examples.
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