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While You're Reading

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This book is about everything that happens while you’re reading – in front of your eyes and inside your head – and about what type designers, typographers and graphic designers bring to a page to make it happen.

Renowned type designer Gerard Unger distills decades of design experience into a playful, accessible text that reflects the range of his professional projects, from...more
Hardcover, 240 pages
Published June 1st 2007 by Mark Batty Publisher (first published January 2006)
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Ramon de Santiago
Have to give this book another read. Found it by chance while hunting down other Dutch typography books. Just read a quick review on Nijhof & Lee which makes me think I should give this more time.
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I haven't started reading this yet. But for a book about reading, it's not exactly conducive to reading... The stiff coated stock, the average quality inkjet print and the uncomfortably large type-size are put-offs to me actually starting it...
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