Simon Garfield (4 knihy)
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Simon Garfield Just My Type ENJust My Typeis not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu…
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Simon Garfield Ten můj fontČteme všichni. Když ne zrovna poezii, ruský román nebo filozofický traktát, určitě směrovky na silnicích, nápisy na obalech sušenek nebo esemesky. Písmena v jakékoli podobě provázejí člověka již po staletí, ale nepřišla k nám sama od sebe: někdo je...
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Simon Garfield Timekeepers ENAn entertaining and authoritative exploration of how and why time has come to rule our lives from the bestselling author of Just My Type. Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to be dominated by something so…
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Simon Garfield Timekeepers ENTime flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger…
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