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Beschreibung
"Through a close examination of the material and visual culture found online, Wagner offers a contextualizing historiography that takes the reader from the art of ASCII to hatred of Comic Sans. By combining design history, visual, and material culture, this book offers a new glimpse into the role of letter form and typographical structure in the history of digital culture"--
"Through a close examination of the material and visual culture found online, Wagner offers a contextualizing historiography that takes the reader from the art of ASCII to hatred of Comic Sans. By combining design history, visual, and material culture, this book offers a new glimpse into the role of letter form and typographical structure in the history of digital culture"--
Über den Autor
Karin Wagner
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments vii
1 Introduction 1
2 Computer Pictures Before Computer Graphics: The Practice of ASCII Art 27
3 Domesticated Aliens: Machine-Readable Typefaces in Popular Culture and Beyond 75
4 The Multisensory Dot Matrix Printer 117
5 Type Hate and the Discourse of Comic Sans 161
6 Common Themes and Concluding Remarks 199
Notes 209
Index 243
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Innenarchitektur & Design
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780262546140
ISBN-10: 0262546140
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wagner, Karin
Hersteller: MIT Press Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 224 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Karin Wagner
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2023
Gewicht: 0,404 kg
Artikel-ID: 126919497