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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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A

THE ALPHABET BOOK.....

LETTERS AND SOUNDS

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

FILMS

CAKES.....

DIAGRAMMATIC.....

DECORATIVE INITIALS ON THE PAGE

 

B

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

 

C

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

 

D

IN A BOOK

STAMPED LETTERS

SPEECH BUBBLES

POSTERS AND ADVERTISING

 

E

CHARACTERISTICS

BICKHAM

BLAKE

BRUNHOFF

HAROLD JONES

HERGE

FEIFFER

FOLON

FRANCOIS

HELD/PERELMAN

HUGO

KANDINSKY

KAUFFER RIPLEY

RUPERT

BEN SHAHN

HEYWOOD SUMNER

WAINWRIGHT

 

 

 

MORE OPTIONS

 

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

H.Noel Humphries
Poster for Dames 1934
LIGHT PROJECTION
AERIAL MESSAGES 
CROWD LETTERS
CAKE LETTERS
Proclamation 1622 New England Trade
Proclamation 1620 Virginia Lottery
F.T.MARINETTI typographic examples
The Tonbridge Love Letter (1896)
TRICK TEXT, tilt to read (the solution)
RAMON LULL, FOLDING PLATE FROM ARS MAGNA 1517
F.Marinetti, Les Mots en Liberté, 1919
Words on sticks, Placards at a Demo