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Author Harkins, Michael

Title Contemporary Processes of Text Typeface Design
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (165 p.)
Series Routledge Research in Design Studies
Routledge research in design studies.
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Introduction -- Motivation for the Research -- Research Questions and Aims -- Contextual and Historical Framing for the Research -- Methodology -- Participants and Data -- Terminology -- Chapters -- 2. Historical Context -- Introduction -- A Lack of Specific Documented Knowledge in Relation to the Processes of Text Typeface Design
Examples of the Restriction of Type-Founding as a Practice and the Secrecy of Punch-Cutting -- Contributors to a State of Paucity in Epistemological Articulation -- Extant Texts in Relation to Typeface Design Process -- Etic and Emic Accounts in Relation to Type Design Processes -- Etic 'Non-Expert' Accounts of Process and Type Design -- Emic 'Expert' Accounting of Process in Punch-Cutting and Type-Founding -- Elucidated Understanding, Decision-Making and Described Method in Relation to Type Design Process -- Describing Design Knowledge -- Further Considerations of Etic and Emic Accounts
Epistemological and Ontological Proximity -- 3. Processes of Text Typeface Design: An Introduction -- Introduction -- Presentation of the Grounded Theory -- Definitions of Developed Core Categories and Sub-Categories -- Core Categories and Their Interrelationship -- Summary -- 4. Trajectorizing -- Introduction -- Trajectorizing -- Contextualizing -- Broad to Focusing -- Contextualizing Initial Influences -- Broad to Focusing -- Contextualizing Specifically through Language -- Contextualizing via Specific Influences and Precedents -- Referencing Own Prior Work as Precedent
Precedent Constructing and Constructed Precedents -- Precedent Constructing from Own Prior Work -- Precedent Constructing from Other Prior Work -- Control Characters and Constructed Precedents -- Summary -- 5. Homologizing -- Introduction -- Homologizing -- Endogenous Generation and Endogenous Generator -- Homologizing -- Procedural Development and Mutability -- Homologizing beyond Obvious Relational Form -- Homologizing -- Facilitating Self-Informing Design -- Homologous Mapping and Homologous Drift -- Homologizing -- Extrapolation and Interpolation
Synthetic Displacement and Synthetic Acquiescence -- Summary -- 6. Attenuating -- Introduction -- Attenuation -- Accretive Amelioration -- Attenuation of Incongruity through Testing -- Attenuation via Comparison -- Attenuation via Developed Corrective Judgment -- Attenuation and Improvement -- Historical Immersion -- Innate Referencing to Historical Context -- Direct Referencing to Historical Context -- A Broad View of Convention in Relation to Historical Context -- Specifics of Convention in Relation to Historical Context -- Historical Immersion Summary -- Envisioning
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Experience and Envisioning
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000059885
100005988X