Livro bem interessante para quem é curioso para saber mais sobre tipografia, com um estilo leve e descontraído. Para leitores que procuram informações mais técnicas e objetivas, esse não é o livro. Na verdade, é quase um livro de ensaios ou crônicas sobre a história da tipografia e o trabalho dos...
Disjointed and not as concise as I'd hoped. I'm never sure how to rate nonfiction. I enjoyed this book, which is really all that counts.
Just my type is an exploration of the art, science, history, people and business behind typefaces, fonts and other typography. The book is exploratory - with relatively independent chapters on different topics in a not-particularly important order. Even the chapters are more meandering than struc...
Quite enjoyable, especially for someone with a casual interest in the world, geography and maps. He also touches on some "non-map" subjects that people may not think about as maps, like mapping the brain, disease maps, celebrity mapping and even the first known murder map.But, at its core this is...
I have just started this book, and am still in the introduction, but this struck me "For the Internet has effected an extraordinary and significant change. Before astronomers faced the gallows for suggesting otherwise, our earth stood firmly at the center of the cosmos; not so long ago, we place...
My Secret Santa at work gave me this, and it is fantastic! I have land surveyors in my family, but I am absolutely terrible with maps- so this was very much appreciated! I enjoyed that Garfield covered actual maps, GPS, the brain, literature, cinema, etc. The only drawback I would say that he doe...