Contemporary processes of text typeface design /

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Main Author: Harkins, Michael (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Routledge research in design studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Motivation for the Research
  • Research Questions and Aims
  • Contextual and Historical Framing for the Research
  • Methodology
  • Participants and Data
  • Terminology
  • Chapters
  • 2. Historical Context
  • Introduction
  • Lack of Specific Documented Knowledge in Relation to the Processes of Text Typeface Design
  • Examples of the Restriction of Type-Founding as a Practice and the Secrecy of Punch-Cutting - Contributors to a State of Paucity in Epistemological Articulation
  • Extant Texts in Relation to Typeface Design Process
  • Etic and Emic Accounts in Relation to Type Design Processes
  • Etic `Non-Expert' Accounts of Process and Type Design
  • Emic `Expert' Accounting of Process in Punch-Cutting and Type-Founding
  • Elucidated Understanding, Decision-Making and Described Method in Relation to Type Design Process
  • Describing Design Knowledge
  • Further Considerations of Etic and Emic Accounts
  • Epistemological and Ontological Proximity
  • 3. Processes of Text Typeface Design: An Introduction
  • Introduction
  • Presentation of the Grounded Theory
  • Definitions of Developed Core Categories and Sub-Categories
  • Core Categories and Their Interrelationship
  • Summary
  • 4. Trajectorizing
  • Introduction
  • Trajectorizing
  • Contextualizing
  • Contextualizing Initial Influences - Broad to Focusing
  • Contextualizing Specifically through Language
  • Contextualizing via Specific Influences and Precedents
  • Referencing Own Prior Work as Precedent
  • Precedent Constructing and Constructed Precedents
  • Precedent Constructing from Own Prior Work
  • Precedent Constructing from Other Prior Work
  • Control Characters and Constructed Precedents
  • Summary
  • 5. Homologizing
  • Introduction
  • Homologizing
  • Endogenous Generation and Endogenous Generator
  • Homologizing - Procedural Development and Mutability
  • Homologizing beyond Obvious Relational Form
  • Homologizing - Facilitating Self-Informing Design
  • Homologous Mapping and Homologous Drift
  • Homologizing - Extrapolation and Interpolation
  • Synthetic Displacement and Synthetic Acquiescence
  • Summary
  • 6. Attenuating
  • Introduction
  • Attenuation
  • Accretive Amelioration
  • Attenuation of Incongruity through Testing
  • Attenuation via Comparison
  • Attenuation via Developed Corrective judgment
  • Attenuation and Improvement
  • Historical Immersion
  • Innate Referencing to Historical Context
  • Direct Referencing to Historical Context
  • Broad View of Convention in Relation to Historical Context
  • Specifics of Convention in Relation to Historical Context
  • Historical Immersion Summary
  • Envisioning
  • Experience and Envisioning
  • Envisioning a Personal Approach
  • Envisioning and Originality
  • Autonomy and Overseeing in Design
  • Envisioning Context and Usage
  • Reflection, Envisioning and Attenuating
  • Envisioning Summary
  • Summary
  • 7. Discussion
  • Introduction
  • Interaction of the Core Categories
  • Attenuation as Constant
  • Attenuation and Comparison
  • Trajectorizing and Precedent
  • Trajectorizing for Subsequent Homology - Initial Control Characters
  • Trajectorizing and Search Space
  • General Model for Text Typeface Design Process
  • General Flow Model for Text Typeface Design Process
  • Trajectorizing in Relation to the General Flow Model
  • Homologizing in Relation to the General Flow Model
  • Models for Extrapolation and Interpolation
  • Potential Applications of the Theory
  • Theory as Analytical Tool
  • Theory as Prescriptive Tool
  • Summary
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Introduction
  • Original Aims and the Contributions of This Research
  • Limitations of the Research
  • Implications of the Research
  • Literature in Terms of Text Typeface Design
  • Further Work
  • In Summary of the Grounded Theory.