From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands, all the way to the Z, 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. […]
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ABC 3D
March 19th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: BOOKS · DESIGN · TYPOGRAPHY · VIDEO
Parallel Strokes - lettering
March 3rd, 2008 No Comments
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 […]
Tags: BOOKS · DESIGN · GRAFFITI · LETTERING · TYPOGRAPHY
Rick Poyner - No More Rules Graphic Design and Post Modernism
February 19th, 2008 No Comments
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 […]
