Font Creation and Design (Part 2): Teaching Plan for Typography Design Course, Department of Visual Communication Design, Shanghai Design Institute, China Academy of Art

Author: Wang Xueqing Chen Huasha
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: A classic teaching text for the Visual Communication Design Department of the China Academy of Art and Shanghai Design College. This book collects a large number of contemporary typographic design concepts and new works. If you have been concerned with and analyzed the trends in graphic design over the past decade, and if you compare these characteristics with the major styles of a decade ago, it becomes clear that the most significant change is the role that text plays in graphic design, exerting a revolutionary driving force on its development. Text is a medium for conveying information. In graphic design, text can be the self-expression of "information" or an explanation of graphics, playing a complementary role to visuals. In contemporary graphic design, it is not difficult to notice that text has far surpassed the concept of "explanation." Beyond its function of "conveying information," it also serves as a driving force for visual expansion. In many designs, text itself often becomes the graphic element that expands the visual impact. The maximized utilization of the function of typography has increasingly become a means and trend. It can be said that the emergence of brand-new typographic design concepts is one of the most representative features of graphic design in the past decade.