Rare Book Room Digital Archive
A collection of old book all digitized and available in high resolution at Rare Book Room. For easier browsing use the more thumbnails option on the top left. Via Type Neu
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Dangerous Curves
In the hopes to start the New Year off on the right foot, I have been going through my delicious links and will be posting all of the things i tagged and never got around to posting. It’s a little late now but a few months back Typographica reviewed Doyald Young’s new book Dangerous Curves.
ABC 3D
ABC-3D is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 dimensional letters that move and change before your eyes is a treat. C turns into D with a snap. M stands at attention. X becomes Y with a flick of the wrist. And then there’s U… Boldly conceived and brilliantly executed with a striking black, red, and white palette, this is a book that readers and art lovers of all ages will treasure for years to come.
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Parallel Strokes - lettering
Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews with twenty-plus contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world. The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of lettering.
Interviews within include conversations with pan-European type design collecitve Underware, Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi, American graffiti writer and fine artist Barry McGee/Twist, German graffiti writers Daim and Seak, American lettering artist, graphic designer and design eductor Ed Fella, among others. Parallel Strokes is an enquiry into the history, context, and development of lettering today, both culturally approved and illicit.
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Michael Bierut Video Interview
Michael Bierut discusses the type selection for his book 79 Short Essays on Design and the evolution of typography in this video interview. Via Type for you
Rick Poyner - No More Rules Graphic Design and Post Modernism
This has kept me busy on the subway over the past few weeks. It is an easy read, with alot of inspiring work and words from top designers from the early 70s to 2001. It does a great job of showing a logical progression from early designers like Wolgang Weingart to some of the modern day designers and the role technology has played in this progression. Poyner also clears up some of the often misunderstandings of Postmodernism and Deconstruction.Defiantly worth checking out. It’s defiantly a book you will look back to in the future.
