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Type Tells Tales
Steven Heller
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Description for Type Tells Tales
Paperback. BIC Classification: AKC; AKD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Type Tells Tales focuses on typography that is integral to the message or story it is expressing. This is type that speaks - that is literally the voice of the narrator. And the narrator is the typographer. This can be quite literal, for example when letters come from the mouth of a person or thing, as in a comics balloon. It can be hand lettering, drawn with its own distinctive peculiarities that convey personality and mood. Precedents for contemporary work might be in Apollinaire's calligram `Il pleut' or Kurt Schwitters' children's picture book `The Scarecrow', or in Concrete Poetry, Futurist ... Read more
Type Tells Tales focuses on typography that is integral to the message or story it is expressing. This is type that speaks - that is literally the voice of the narrator. And the narrator is the typographer. This can be quite literal, for example when letters come from the mouth of a person or thing, as in a comics balloon. It can be hand lettering, drawn with its own distinctive peculiarities that convey personality and mood. Precedents for contemporary work might be in Apollinaire's calligram `Il pleut' or Kurt Schwitters' children's picture book `The Scarecrow', or in Concrete Poetry, Futurist ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780500420577
SKU
V9780500420577
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Steven Heller
Steven Heller is co-chair of the MFA Design: Designer as Author programme at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is the author of many books, including Stencil Type, Graphic, Typography Sketchbooks, New Ornamental Type and New Vintage Type, all published by Thames & Hudson. Gail Anderson is the creative director at Visual Arts Press at the ... Read more
Reviews for Type Tells Tales
'Useful and attractive' - Times Literary Supplement 'A gorgeous tour of the ways type can be integrated so thoroughly with text that the type itself helps tells the story at hand' - thedailybeast.com 'Joyous' - It's Nice That