Graphic Arts on the Web

Presented by the American Amateur Press Association.


Of General Interest

Web sites related to graphic arts and publishing.
Desktop Publishing of Hobby Journals
Creating amateur journals via desktop publishing; maintained by the American Amateur Press Association.

Font Identification
Here are sites that help you identify fonts:

The Font Site
A magazine for the type and graphics professional.

Lost Crafts
This site includes the text of several books about bookbinding: The Art of Bookbinding (1897), Bookbinding and the Care of Books (1902), and Bookbinding for Beginners (1914).

Microsoft Typography
Links to Microsoft pages that deal with typography and related topics, with a special emphasis on TrueType.

My Fonts
Find, try, and buy fonts. Their WhatTheFont page allows you to upload images of fonts you want to identify.

Resources for Letterpress Printers
Information of interest to letterpress printers; maintained by the American Amateur Press Association.

Stock Photographic Images
Search thousands of royalty-free photos

The Terminal
The official publication of P22 Digital Type Foundry. This on-line publication features articles and links related to typography and the history of type and printing.

TypeCulture
A Digital Type Foundry and Academic Resource.

Typesetting and Publishing Glossary
This glossary of terms associated with the typesetting and printing industries was put together as a series of articles in a newsletter called Desktop Publisher written, edited, and published between 1986 and 1989 by Henry Budgett (henryb@sco.com).

Typophile
Typographic collaboration discussion boards.


Books

Information about books and book publishers.
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG)
Founded in 1983 in Toronto, Ontario, by professionals and amateurs from the book arts: bookbinders, calligraphers, paper makers, letterpress printers, paper marblers, book artists, archivists, and conservators.

Peter Verheyen's Book Arts Web
The home of the Book Arts Web which features links to a large selection of book arts related sites on the Web, including galleries with images.

Oak Knoll Books & Oak Knoll Press
They publish, sell and distribute books about books, the history of books and the book arts and stock about 9,500 out-of-print, rare and new titles in these fields.


Digital Type Foundries

There seems to be more of these on the Web every day!
Adobe Type Library
Easy access to a wealth of information about the Adobe Type Library.

Links and contacts: Type Foundries
Microsoft has compiled a list of digital type foundries.

Matton Images: Fonts
Offering over 5000 PC and MAC Fonts. All Fonts can be searched or browsed alphabetically, and can be download immediately.

Phil's Fonts
Phil's Fonts has put together an extensive list of type foundries and resources on the Web.

Quadrat Communications
A digital type foundry based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Tiro Typeworks
An independent digital type foundry developing & marketing high quality typeface families for PC and Mac platforms.


Education

Colleges, Universities, and other educational institutions that have programs of interest.
The Art Institutes
A national system of schools offering competitive degrees programs in the areas of visual, media, and culinary arts.

Indiana University
The Graphic Design Programs of the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts offers graduate and undergraduate study programs. Also of interest is the Lilly Library, which contains rare books and manuscripts.

Otis College of Art and Design
Otis Laboratory Press is a fully functioning studio with four Vandercook proof presses and over 200 fonts. Established in 1984 by Sheila de Brettville as part of the Communication Arts Department, the Lab Press has a rich history of small edition book publishing, continuing to introduce generations of Otis students to the origins of typography and the notion of the book as a visual communications medium."

Pacific Lutheran University
The Elliott Press is PLU's studio-laboratory for the publishing arts.

Rochester Institute of Technology.
School of Print Media. Links to interesting sites are provided by the Cary Graphic Arts Collection.

San Francisco Center for the Book
SFCB provides a public space and supportive environment for anyone interested in exploring the arts of the book and the visible word.

Studio on the Square
"Studio on the Square is committed to helping artists develop their work in book form. We continue the tradition of teaching elegant letterpress printing, as it has been handed down for over 5 centuries." Located in New York City.

University of Alabama
The Master of Fine Arts in the Book Arts program.

University of the Arts
The Master of Fine Arts program at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, includes Book Arts.

University of Iowa
Center for the Book.

Université Laval, Québec, Canada
IKON Quebec site from Du Programme de Communication Graphique Ecole des Arts Visuels. The page is in French.

Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Wai-te-ata Press.

Virginia Arts of the Book Center
977 Second Street, SE Charlottesville, VA 22902

Yale University
The Tradition of Letterpress Printing at Yale.


Printing Industry Associations

Professional associations
Globalprint (located in The Netherlands)

Printing Industries of New England

The Printing Industry Association of Australia


Pointers

Web pages (like this one) that point to other Graphic Arts Web pages.
Open Directory Project — Arts: Graphic Design: Typography

Yahoo — Arts : Design Arts : Graphic Design

Yahoo — Home : Arts : Design Arts : Graphic Design : Typography : Fonts & Typefaces


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