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The Typographic Univese. Letterforms found in nature, the built world and human imagination | Steven Heller, Gail Anderson | 9780500241455

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The Typographic Universe

Letterforms found in nature, the built world and human imagination

Auteur:Steven Heller, Gail Anderson

Uitgever:Thames & Hudson

ISBN: 978-0-500-24145-5

  • Hardcover
  • Engels
  • 352 pagina's
  • 1 aug. 2014

Virtually anything can be used to make original typography.

Once you start looking, it is impossible not to see letters everywhere, from deliberate inventions – aromatic alphabets made of spaghetti, soup or spices, or contorted typefaces styled out of human handprints – to serendipitous and often short-lived discoveries – letters formed by chemtrails in the sky, negative spaces between trees branches and city buildings, cracks in plaster – to fading ‘ghost types’ painted on buildings in a pre-digital age.

Virtually anything can be used to make original typography.

Once you start looking, it is impossible not to see letters everywhere, from deliberate inventions – aromatic alphabets made of spaghetti, soup or spices, or contorted typefaces styled out of human handprints – to serendipitous and often short-lived discoveries – letters formed by chemtrails in the sky, negative spaces between trees branches and city buildings, cracks in plaster – to fading ‘ghost types’ painted on buildings in a pre-digital age.

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