Typophile - Impossible to get Adrian Frutiger's "Type, Sign, Symbol" - Comments

There is also interlibrary

Ricardo Cordoba — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:41:16 -0700

There is also interlibrary loan.

Eben, I know it works in the United States public library system... but international libraries may be a different matter. Here are two links which may be helpful to someone living in Portugal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlibrary_loan

http://www.worldcat.org/

There is also interlibrary

Eben Sorkin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:45:58 -0700

There is also interlibrary loan.

Also, several years ago I

terminaldesign — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:40:52 -0700

Also, several years ago I posted a couple of images form the book, as examples of weighting-up type. If you search Typophile, I’m sure you can come up with them.

$250 seems like a fair

terminaldesign — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:38:45 -0700

$250 seems like a fair price. If it is beyond your means, perhaps you should go in with a few colleagues and share the cost and the access.

António, this blog post

Ricardo Cordoba — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:15:04 -0700

António, this blog post talks about the book and has two or three images from it.

António - I do not know

kyrmse — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:08:11 -0700

António -

I do not know whether it is exactly the same book, but Frutiger’s “Sinais e Símbolos” is available here in Brasil from Martins Fontes Editora (in Portuguese, of course). I quote from the review:

“Não existem elementos casuais em nosso redor ou dentro de nós, mas toda matéria obedece a uma composição ordenada. Até o traço ou o rabisco mais inocente não pode existir acidentalmente, por puro acaso, mesmo que o observador não reconheça claramente as causas, a origem e o motivo desse “desenho”. É a partir de considerações como essas que Adrian Frutiger leva o leitor a reconhecer e julgar com mais facilidade a origem, o sentido e a mensagem dos sinais e símbolos.”

Take a look at http://www.martinsfonteseditora.com.br/detalhes.asp?ID=552685 and Boa sorte!

Ronald Kyrmse
ronald.info.ms

paul hunt eh he...when I

afonseca1974 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:56:32 -0700

paul hunt
eh he...when I wrote impossible I was refering to is price :-)

António

Hi Chris! yes they are

afonseca1974 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:55:08 -0700

Hi Chris!
yes they are diferent books.

António

not

paul d hunt — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:52:03 -0700

not impossible...
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetails?bi=904619665

Swipe Books in Toronto had

kegler — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:43:07 -0700

Swipe Books in Toronto had copies for sale when i was in there last. They also have the impossible to get Letterror book.
http://www.swipe.com/

Antonio, I have a copy of

dezcom — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:33:54 -0700

Antonio,
I have a copy of Frutiger’s “Signs and Symbols”, is this what you mean or is there a different book?

I also have his, “Forms and Counterforms”.

ChrisL

Impossible to get Adrian Frutiger's "Type, Sign, Symbol"

afonseca1974 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:55:28 -0700

Hi all!

This book is impossible to get (Adrian Frutiger —> Type, Sign, Symbol).
My question is: do you know where I can get images of the book’s inside?
The Google Scholar don’t have any...
I suspect that there are some copyrights issues but want to check it anyway...

António