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Non-Designer’s Type Book, The, Second Edition
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Non-Designer’s Type Book, The, Second Edition

by Robin Williams
September 2005
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 56m
English
Peachpit Press
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2. Most Amazing Trend: Special Effects Type

The first time I saw a designer stretching and squeezing type on a computer monitor, I knew my graphic life was going to change, but little did I know how magical changes those changes would be.

Some of the things you can do with type today aren’t new. Dazzling effects were being created before desktop publishing, but mainly by those lucky enough to have giant budgets and lengthy production schedules. Most of us flipped through the design annuals of yesteryear and wondered how this was done or what genius did that? Who has that much time or budget? Fortunately, there was a digital daybreak on the horizon emblazoned with the motto: New Ballgame, Amigo!

Tired of flat type just lying there, staring at ...

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