BACK
LETTERFORMS
AND THE NARRATIVE
Over the years I have found examples of the making of letterfroms that transcend
the fixed perceptions
that have served to make Typography an arid study for students.
More Icing Cakes than
Kerning.
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INDICATES
A SEPARATE SECTION FOR YOU- but use your backbutton to return here
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THE ALPHABET
BOOK.....
LETTERS AND SOUNDS
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
FILMS
CAKES.....
DIAGRAMMATIC.....
DECORATIVE INITIALS
ON THE PAGE
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GRAUMANN'S CEMENT
LETTERS IN LETTERS
HANDWRITING
POSTCARDS
ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS
HOLLYWOOD HILL SIGN
ILLUSTRATORS' WRITING
INVENTED LETTERS
LONG-PLAYING RECORDS
IN THE LANDSCAPE
POPULAR PRINTS
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MANUALS
MAPS
NEWS
PUNCTUATION
NON-WESTERN LETTERS
SANDWICH-MEN
PARCELS
NARRATIVE INITIALS
MAKING SHAPES
LETTERS FOUND IN
IMAGES
SATIRE AND CARTOONS
SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS
OFFICIAL FORMS
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IN A BOOK
STAMPED LETTERS
SPEECH BUBBLES
POSTERS AND ADVERTISING
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CHARACTERISTICS
BICKHAM
BLAKE
BRUNHOFF
HAROLD JONES
HERGE
FEIFFER
FOLON
FRANCOIS
HELD/PERELMAN
HUGO
KANDINSKY
KAUFFER RIPLEY
RUPERT
BEN SHAHN
HEYWOOD SUMNER
WAINWRIGHT
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GERMAN
TYPOGRAPHY 1927, KLIMSCH'S JAHRBUCH
Paul
Rand, Modern and Traditional Typography in America, Penrose 1949
Jan
Tschichold, Clay in the Potter's Hands, Penrose 1949 |
SINGLES
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H.Noel
Humphries |
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Poster
for Dames 1934 |
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LIGHT
PROJECTION |
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AERIAL
MESSAGES |
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CROWD
LETTERS |
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CAKE
LETTERS |
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Proclamation
1622 New England Trade |
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Proclamation
1620 Virginia Lottery |
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F.T.MARINETTI
typographic examples |
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The Tonbridge Love Letter (1896) |
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TRICK
TEXT, tilt to read (the
solution) |
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RAMON
LULL, FOLDING PLATE FROM ARS MAGNA 1517 |
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F.Marinetti,
Les Mots en Liberté, 1919 |
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Words
on sticks, Placards at a Demo |