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Alan Kitching's A-Z of Letterpress

Author: Alan Kitching

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2015-04-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781780674810

A must for letterpress enthusiasts and graphic designers, this is a covetable showcase of Alan Kitching's font collection. Each page has been carefully created by Alan Kitching in collaboration with Angus Hyland, making this book a work of art in its own right. Presented as an A to Z, each letter is interspersed with complete alphabets giving the reader access to a large range of fonts to reference in their own work.

Alan Kitching

Author: John L. Walters

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2017-04-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781780677729

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Designed by Simon Esterson of Esterson Associates, this long-awaited monograph documents the work of world-renowned typographer, designer and letterpress practitioner Alan Kitching. Spanning over fifty years, this lavish volume leads us from Kitching's first typographical experiments under the auspices of mentor Anthony Froshaug to his most iconic creations at The Typography Workshop. It covers his years designing alongside Derek Birdsall, as well as his time teaching letterpress at the Royal College of Art, and showcases his most colourful and expressive pieces, including his prolific work for The Guardian. Kitching's work hangs in private collections and galleries but it has also featured on everything from magazine and book covers, postage stamps and theatre posters, to wine labels, billboards and signage.

Letterpress Now

Author: Jessica C. White

Publisher: Lark Crafts

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9781454703297

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Explains how to use various types of presses, and includes twenty projects ranging from cards and calendars to stationery and masks.

Just My Type

Author: Simon Garfield

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2010-10-21

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1847652921

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Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. About why Barack Obama opted for Gotham, while Amy Winehouse found her soul in 30s Art Deco. About the great originators of type, from Baskerville to Zapf, or people like Neville Brody who threw out the rulebook, or Margaret Calvert, who invented the motorway signs that are used from Watford Gap to Abu Dhabi. About the pivotal moment when fonts left the world of Letraset and were loaded onto computers ... and typefaces became something we realised we all have an opinion about. As the Sunday Times review put it, the book is 'a kind of Eats, Shoots and Leaves for letters, revealing the extent to which fonts are not only shaped by but also define the world in which we live.' This edition is available with both black and silver covers.

The Little Book of Typographic Ornament

Author: David Jury

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781780675893

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This little book contains a beautiful and varied collection of typographic ornaments sourced from specimen books of type foundries, dating from 1700. David Jury explains how the need for typographic ornaments arose and developed, and sets them in their historical context. The chapters cover natural forms; geometric forms; rules and borders; wreaths, borders and scrolls; and pictorial ornaments. The last chapter charts the rise of the graphic designer over the last century, and how modern designers are now reinterpreting these typographic ornaments into new forms of art. The Little Book of Typographic Ornament will be an invaluable reference for graphic designers, as well as providing a source of copyright-free images.

The Helmet Of Horror

Author: Victor Pelevin

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2009-06-04

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 184767626X

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When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the MInotaur's labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze of Internet chatrooms, a group of mystified strangers find themselves assigned obscure aliases and commanded by the Helmet of Horror, the Minotaur himself. As they fumble their way back to reality through a mesmerising world of abundant information but little knowledge, we are forced to wonder - can technology itself be anything more than a myth?

Reinventing Letterpress

Author: Charlotte Rivers

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782888930938

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Reinventing Letterpress is a lusciously tactile, desirable, take-anywhere bundle of letterpress work. Letterpress is in the throes of a revival, with designers and creatives of all kinds rediscovering the artistic opportunities this most traditional of printing techniques has to offer. The letterpress look taps into the popularity of the handmade aesthetic, and this book places this revitalized discipline in a modern context, showcasing beautiful examples of contemporary work, and profiling the craft’s most exciting practitioners. The book also includes a brief history of the craft and an overview of press set-ups and studios.

Ladies of Letterpress

Author: Jessica C. White

Publisher:

Published: 2015-03-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781782402299

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The revival of traditional printing methods has been afoot for the last decade, and the tactile charm of letterpress has ensured that its popularity is on the rise. Ladies of Letterpress is an organization that champions the craft, and in particular seeks to showcase and promote the work of women printers. A gallery of art by its members, the work in Ladies of Letterpress ranges from greetings cards to broadsides and posters, and is offered in a cornucopia of type and illustration styles. What comes through clearly, though, is the quality of the work: every one of these pieces is worthy of display on your wall, and with 80 detachable pages, you can create an instant and beautiful gallery of your own.

TM

Author: Mark Sinclair

Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

Published: 2014-09-08

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1780676360

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TM offers graphic designers and those interested in the history of design and branding a uniquely detailed look at a select group of the very best visual identities. The book takes 29 internationally-recognised logos and explains their development, design, usage and purpose. Based on interviews with the designers responsible for these totems, and encompassing the marks from a range of corporate, artistic and cultural institutions from across the globe, TM reveals the stories behind such icons as the Coca-Cola logotype, the Penguin Books’ colophon and the Michelin Man. Authoritatively written, comprehensively researched and including a wealth of archival and previously unpublished images, TM is an opportunity to discover how designers are able to squeeze entire identities into 29 simple logos.

Notes on the Visitation of Lincolnshire, 1634

Author: Alfred W. Gibbons

Publisher:

Published: 1898

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13:

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