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Typography 27 (Typography) | 
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| Author: Type Directors Club
Publisher: Collins Design
Category: Book
Buy New: $151.81
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 159107
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0061144231
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9780061144233
ASIN: 0061144231
Publication Date: December 1, 2006
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Product Description
For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions. Selected from approximately 2300 international submissions to the fiftieth Type Directors Club competition, the 240 winning designs are models of excellence and innovation in the use of type design, encompassing wide range of categories, including books, magazines, corporate identities, logotypes, stationery, annual reports, video and web graphics, and posters.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Doesn't Live Up September 26, 2007
I am a fan of great typography, and within this annual series I have seen some beautiful work presented in a beautiful book. Typography 24 and 26 stand out as great examples, while this book, 27, just doesn't cut it.
Let's begin with the book's cover. It is a photograph of a lowercase x in some black didot with a cheesy reflection and almost no sense of design or attention to detail to be found. This isn't a beautiful typeface to photograph even. It looks like the work of a first-year typography student learning the history of typesetting.
The work inside is beautiful, yet my attention was constantly drawn to the credits which look like pages from a bad early 90s design magazine, and its divider pages I won't even begin to discuss as I might get so angry as to smash my fist through my iMac.
I don't know what happened since last year, but this book isn't the proud piece of design work that I would like to put on my coffee table for people to actually see. Maybe when Typography 28 comes out in a few months we'll have a book worth recommending.
 Typography 27 May 10, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A 'must have' for the professional Graphic Designer. Perhaps not the best edition, with a little too much Student work, but when you want to free the mind and flip through something that feels like NOW, The Type Directors Club Annual always does the the trick!
Great work as usual January 10, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This 27th annual from the Type Director's Club does a great job selecting the best of the best in typographic designs. It's chock full of various pieces from calendars, journals, magazine spreads to student work. The annual can use some organizing. It does a great job displaying all of the winners. However, it doesn't do a good job in dividing works into catagories. Otherwise the work is top notch!
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