table of contents: graphic design & reading
“re:word”
by Gunnar Swanson
page 1

“Two Days in Limbo”
by Michael Schmidt
page 9

“Seen and Not Seen”
by Kenneth FitzGerald
page 21

“Signs of Life/Spaces of Art: From Standard Brands to Integrated Circuits”
by Johanna Drucker page 31

“Looking into Space”
by Stephanie Zelman
page 51

“Reading Photographs”
by Colette Gaite
page 61

“Visual Syntax”
by Ellen Lupton
page 73

“Surrogate Multiplicities: In Search of the Visual Voice-Over”
by Katie Salen
page 77

“The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible”
by Beatrice Warde
page 91

“Legibility”
by Rolf F. Rehe
page 97

“Improving the Tool”
by Hrant Papazian
page 111

“Clarety: Drinking from the Crystal Goblet”
by Gunnar Swanson
page 133

“The Object Poster: Word + Picture = Impact”
by Steven Heller
page 137

“The New Calligraphic Renaissance”
by Steven Skaggs
page 143

“E Pluribus Unum”
by Paul Elliman
page151

“On the Democratization of Typography”
by Gunnar Swanson
page163

“The Written Word: The Designer as Mediator”
by William Drenttel
page 167

“The Myth of Content and the Encyclopedestrianization of Communication”
by James Souttar
page 171

“Electronic Typography: The New Visual Language”
by Jessica Helfand
page 183

“Rethinking the Book”
by David Small
page 189

authors’ biographies page 203

index page 209

colophon page 219
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