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Between a book and a soft place : an investigation into the contemporary teaching of typography and book design at South African Higher Education Institutions
Dissertation(MIS)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/59323 Between a book and a soft place : an investigation into the contemporary teaching of typography and book design at South African Higher Education Institutions Le Roux, Elizabeth Henriette Borgstrom, Liam Typography Book Design Education Graphic Design Printing UCTD Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education Dissertation(MIS)--University of Pretoria, 2016. This dissertation addresses the teaching of typography and book design in South Africa and how the literature relating to its education has changed during the course of the twentieth century. Several scholarly and educational book titles are compared to one another based on their approach to the subject and this is compared to the historical development of typographic technologies as they were developed in Europe. Based on the theoretical pool of the assessed books, a list of theoretical topics was drawn up and used to survey the current teaching intent of graphic design study programmes at South African tertiary education institutions. It was found that in spite of a less direct technical focus in the teaching and learning materials, training institutions within departments and faculties of arts have developed their graphic design programmes with the intent of developing students who are technologically proficient, readily employable, artistically fluent, and aware of industrial and historical conventions in their fields. However, they do not necessarily teach historical book design conventions, focussing rather on the skills and software required for contemporary design practice. Information Science MIS Unrestricted 2017-03-08T06:23:01Z 2017-03-08T06:23:01Z 2017-05-05 2016 Dissertation Borgstrom, L 2016, Between a book and a soft place : a study of typography and book design and its relation to technological change and training in South Africa, MIS Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59323> A2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59323 en © 2017 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Typography Book Design Education Graphic Design Printing UCTD Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education Between a book and a soft place : an investigation into the contemporary teaching of typography and book design at South African Higher Education Institutions |
| title | Between a book and a soft place : an investigation into the contemporary teaching of typography and book design at South African Higher Education Institutions |
| title_full | Between a book and a soft place : an investigation into the contemporary teaching of typography and book design at South African Higher Education Institutions |
| title_fullStr | Between a book and a soft place : an investigation into the contemporary teaching of typography and book design at South African Higher Education Institutions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Between a book and a soft place : an investigation into the contemporary teaching of typography and book design at South African Higher Education Institutions |
| title_short | Between a book and a soft place : an investigation into the contemporary teaching of typography and book design at South African Higher Education Institutions |
| title_sort | between a book and a soft place an investigation into the contemporary teaching of typography and book design at south african higher education institutions |
| topic | Typography Book Design Education Graphic Design Printing UCTD Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/59323 |