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Title: Beyond the Mac Is Not a Typewriter: More Typographic Insights and Secrets by Robin Williams ISBN: 0-201-88598-0 Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One Must Begin Somewhere
Comment: For all of us who learned typing but not typography before we first acquired a desk top computer with a "word processing program," Williams' clear guidance steers us away from the more obvious mistakes too many of us have already made in great profusion. Ordinary tools in the hands of ordinary people can turn out surprisingly good typography. Williams leads you by the hand down the beginning of the right path.
This handy little book is not just for Mac users, either. For some techniques in some applications, folks not blessed with a Mac will not benefit from the detailed "how to" instructions, but the principles apply to any platform. So, do your typograpgically ignorant friends (even those on the dark side) a favor; give them a copy of Ms. Williams' book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Mmm. Milk, chunky style.
Comment: Many people have lauded this book as a wonderful place for sprouting designers to start. For some it well may be the milk they need before attempting to digest the meat brought to the table by Bringhurst or Gill. But, and I know I'm preaching to the choir, this glass of milk has been poured from an expired carton (just had to get in one more food metaphor). Try "Stop Stealing Sheep" by Spiekermann & Ginger--great overview, quite accurate, and above all a good read. Start there, leave this one alone.
Rating: 2
Summary: Decent but lacking
Comment: A decent followup to her earlier work, however Williams' newest volume does some disservice to her subject matter. Previous reviewers may be too hard and too laudatory as well: it doesn't take a historian to write a great book on typography, but then neither does Williams necessarily succeed. This book is not a tenth of what Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style represents to modern users of type; then again, perhaps she was not trying to be as comprehensive, accurate or excellent.
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Title: The Mac is Not a Typewriter, Second Edition by Robin Williams ISBN: 0201782634 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 17 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Designing with Type: A Basic Course in Typography (Fourth by James Craig, William Bevington, Susan E. Meyer ISBN: 0823013472 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Non-Designer's Design Book, Second Edition by Robin Williams ISBN: 0321193857 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Pc is Not a Typewriter by Robin Williams ISBN: 0938151495 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 28 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Non-Designer's Scan & Print Book by Sandee Cohen, Sandee Cohen ISBN: 0201353946 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 08 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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