Typography Sketchbooks
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Graphic Design
Typography Sketchbooks Details
Review "A fine new addition to both the 10 finest books on typography and our favorite peeks inside the notebooks of great creators: Typography Sketchbooks is like a visual window into the minds of the worlds most exciting type designers and, in turn, into the intricate art-science of typography itself a medium both creative and practical that has to walk the tightrope between centuries-old tradition and bleeding-edge innovation with equal parts grace and agility in an era of changing reading habits and design expectations." --Brain Pickings"Know someone who loves design? A devotee of letter forms or ABCs? Then this celebration of type should be on your list. This book peeps into the private sketchbooks of talented typographers like Emek Golan, Andy Smith, Tom Schamp, Daniel Pelavin, Bernard Maisner, Katie Lombardo, Jonny Hannah, and so many more. This book is bursting with amazing, colorful, often whimsical, imagery." --Fine Books & Collections"Heller and Talarico have struck gold again with sketches revolving around type, type treatments, and letter forms... Any reader who doodles will feel an itch in their fingers looking at these pages." -- Communication Arts"Typography Sketchbooks (Princeton Architectural Press 2011), covers just about every nuance of visual communication from just about every possible approach to type design, from the highly controlled sketches of Matthew Carter (Cambridge, MA) to the free-wheeling headline sketches of Andy Smith (London, UK) to the sublimely beautiful photographic alphabets of Bob Aufuldish (San Anselmo, UK). It's a must for musing and inspiration for visual narrators. And it includes URLs for the contributors." --- DART: Design Arts Daily"Typography Sketchbooks is like a visual window into the minds of the world's most exciting type designers and, in turn, into the intricate art-science of typography itself." -- TheAtlantic.com Read more
Reviews
This book is stunning and I'm very happy to have it in my reference collection! It would make a great coffee table book for general design enthusiasts. For artists, typographers, letterers, and illustrators, it's a fantastic reference for what is possible within lettering and typography. I love peering into other artists' process materials and sketchbooks, and the selection here is broad, playful, and impressive in both scope and quality. I think of it as a visual index of artists to follow. One star off for legibility, of all things. The type is tiny, and in some cases layered over busy illustrations with too high opacity, making it challenging to read from a distance. Meanwhile, the book's size and weight makes it uncomfortable to hold up close to your face. (I wouldn't want it scaled down, but I would like it more legible from a comfy distance!) That could have been designed a bit better given the subject matter. But let's be honest, I got it for the pictures, and there, I can't complain! This book is absolutely worth having.
