Includes bibliographical references (p. 394-407) and index.
Contents:
1: Hello to a new generation of writers -- The first generation -- The birth of the designer writer -- Writing with body language -- Writing in the color of the stars -- Writers on designer writing -- The visual prophet: William Blake -- 2: Hello to a new generation of readers -- The Gutenberg clich ̌-- Designer writing in Egypt -- The visual secrets of Greece and Rome -- Dawn of the designer poet: China -- The philosopher painters of Maya -- The golden ecstasies of Islam -- These are the images: Hebrew illuminated manuscripts -- Thinking in images: Aristotle in medieval Europe -- Seeing the divine in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions -- 3: Hello to a new generation of women -- Godmother of designer writing: Christine de Pisan -- Feminine fonts -- Booklady: a modern feminine font -- 4: Beauty and the book -- Beauty and the book Part 1 -- Beauty and the book Part 2 -- 5: Hello to a new generation of teachers -- Color in education, advertising and the arts -- Color, reading and the brain -- Edgar Allan Poe -- The eye is full of deceit: Plato -- Birth of the comic book: Homer -- Measuring the immeasurable: Chaucer -- Image magic in Ethiopia -- A new generation of visual theorists -- Writing outside the box -- Chaos in the classroom -- 6: Hello to the critics and skeptics -- Critics of designer writing -- Words on trial: ornament and decoration -- 7: Goodbye Gutenberg -- A revaluation of visual values -- Dawn of designer prose -- The visual vernacular -- The old way of reading and the new -- Terror in the arts -- And so begin the beautiful books.
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