The Little Book of Typographic Ornament

Inspirational for art efforts based on dingbats.

I love typography and typographic ornaments. This book is perfect.

A robust book as much reference as resource but not without its niggling flaws.First off, the value offered here is immense. 720 rules, borders, and printer’s flowers are spread across 7 categorical chapters each containing an essay and limited examples of use.All illustrations are large, sufficient enough to study—and the hardcover book itself, though not coffee table-sized, is satisfyingly thick. All illustrations are offered as monotones ranging from black to brown, violet to red and all are numbered.What’s stunning, however, in addition to the absence of true color, is the lack of context. These numbers you soon realize exist for identification purposes only. So where was each ornament used or found? What type of printers’ flower is it? Is it a rule or part of a border? When was it created?Somewhat ameliorating this confusion, is access to all illustrations via the publisher’s website and a code tucked away at the back of the book. This provides immense utility. All art is offered individually in tif format and therefore easily viewable in a picture reader or say, the Adobe Creative Suite.Thing is, while these illustrations are not pristine in their detail, it’s not entirely clear what readers can do with them. The book’s copyright clearly prohibits replication. The website offers no clue other than its generic copyright too and no creative commons rights are apparent. Therefore, I’d safely say this “exclusive content”, as the website goes, is purely for reference purposes—in addition to encouragement should readers feel inspired to create ornaments of their own.Therefore, the book’s only shortcomings in addition to the lack of full color are the absence of context, as previously stated, and the limited number of figures showing art in actual use. That said, in terms of return on investment and breadth of content, The Little Book of Typographic Ornament is a resource that should not be missed.

I am very impressed by the creative Typographic images in this book! The book shares some wonderful, creative images in a small book. The detailed pics, which would look great on any piece of paper and can be used to illustrate a document, is what I love best about this book. I get inspired just looking inside. There is some history in the beginning than all of the pages after wards is of different ornamental designs that could be used as I please. I find I might use this for graphic design, sketching and many more. However, the size of the book is small, hard covered and very easy to take with me, which is a wonderful thing!I highly recommend this book to those who love classical typographic designs and need inspiration'Disclosure: " I was supplied a sample for test and evaluation, and in return I would provide my honest opinion"

Piccolo capolavoro, senza contare che c'è la possibilità di scaricare l'intero libro già digitalizzato.. con le immagini in alta.TOP