ABCing
Subtitle: seeing the alphabet differently
By: Colleen Ellis
Publisher: Mark Batty
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780981960043
Subjects: Graphic design (Typography); Alphabet books
Description: ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently is a primer to seeing and understanding the visual world. From abstract to zeitgeist, the book uses the Latin alphabet to introduce ways of visualizing, thinking and talking about art and design. Each illustration is created using only the negative shapes of a given letter. It is not the actual letterforms from which these new perspectives take shape, but the spaces around them. The shapes are rotated and resized; they are not duplicated, mirrored or otherwise altered. Therefore the illustrations maintain their visual connection to the original letterform. The shapes are then composed as a visual translation of a given word's meaning, creating visual and conceptual connections between the letter, the word and the surrounding space. The result is a mixture of philosophy, poetry and art.
Notes: On board pages.

Includes bibliographical references.