Type tells tales
By: Steven Heller & Gail Anderson
Contributors: Anderson, Gail, 1962- author
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780300226799
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Words in art; Letter-pictures; Type and type-founding in art; Graphic arts
Description: "Stretching the boundaries of typographic expression, Type Tells Tales is a sensational showcase of type that is integral to the message it conveys, with the capacity to emote, engage, and guide the reader from one thought to the next. Navigating the far reaches of graphic design, Steven Heller and Gail Anderson reveal how type can render a particular voice or multiple conversations, how letters in various shapes and sizes can guide the eye through dense information, and how type can become both content and illustration, as letters take the form of people, animals, cars, or planes. The book's 332 illustrations - including 290 in color - feature historical examples by T.T. Marinetti, Bruno Munari, and Francis Picabia, among others, as well as by contemporary designers such as Richard Eckersley, John Hendrix, Maira Kalman, and Corita Kent. The book firmly locates the letter in the realm of artistry, finding exciting common ground among the pursuits of design, illustration, writing, and typography"--From jacket flap.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION; title: ONE / POETICS. Les mots en liberté futuristes (Futurist Words in Freedom) / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti; title: The Next Call / Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman; title: Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel / Robert Massin; title: Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) / John Cage; title: Hot & Sour Soup / Walasse Ting; title: Selections from The Typographic Dante / Barrie Tullett; title: Your Song / Antonius Bui; title: INTGRS / Dylan McDonough; title: Texted Haiku Broadsides / Dirk Hagner; title: The Five Books by Hrytsko Chubay / Agrafka Studio; title: Whitman Illuminated: Song of myself / Allen Crawford; title: Anatomia Poetica / Bianca Bunsas; title: Dismal Incantation/ Herman Inclusus; title: Eu Me Chamo Antônio, Segundo - Eu Me Chamo Antônio / Pedro Antônio Gabriel Anhorn; title: Stretch Marks / Warren Lehrer; title: TWO / DRAMATICS. La Danse / Francis Picabia; title: How to Read Fortune in Bed / Leo Lionni; title: The Bald Soprano / Robert Massin; title: i mean you know / Warren Lehrer; title: French Fries / Warren Lehrer; title: Max Makes a Million / Maira Kalman; title: The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales / Molly Leach; title: Mouse and Kat and the Evil One / Stuart Sharpe; title: Hot Jazz Special / Jonny Hannah; title: David Bowie's 'Sue (Or In A Season of Crime)' / Tom Hingston; title: Gonwards / Peter Blegvad and Andrew Swainson; title: Love Story: The 1950s/The 1960s/The 1970s/The 1980s / Patrick King; title: The Subtle Cosmos / Alexandra Beguez; title: THREE / MANIFESTO. All the News That Fits / Paula Scher; title: Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri / Paolo Soleri; title: History of the/my Wor(l)d / Johanna Drucker; title: The Telephone Book / Richard Eckersley; title: Sawdust / Wired; title: Drawings in Church / John Hendrix; title: Not the End of Print / Isabel Seiffert; title: Text Paintings / Lora Fosberg; title: all the wrong people have self-esteem / Laurie Rosenwald; title: Process / John Passafiume; title: Wedding Suit Lining / Nick Reeve; title: Coline/Text Tights / Natalie Cohen; title: In Order to Control / NOTA BENE Visual (NBv); title: Gosh I've been here before, Underneath the blah, I am Crossing an Ocean, With 2 Others on a Piece of Paper / Annie Vought; title: Obvious? /  Jack Summerford; title: The Wire Poster Project / Oliver Munday; title: Postcards to my Parents / Carolyn Sewell; title: FOUR / MONUMENTAL.  A Vanishing Point, Here We Are I, All Moments / Alida Sayer; title: Style Stones, Lives Remembered / Ariane Spanier Design; title: Fears /  Brian Rea; title: Steep and Drink: A Study in Grey Orchids / Daniel Patrick Helmstetter; title: 'Type/Dynamics' / Lust; title: Flexfit / Timothy Goodman; title: Stat Bats / Rogers Eckersley Design (RED); title: FIVE / CLASSICS. Daniil Kharms's 'Selected Works' / Kiril Zlatkov; title: a made up/true story, Romeo & Juliet / Sam Winston; title: Manuel Puig - Entre el cine y la escritura / Damián Sena; title: 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe / Hermes Mazali; title: La  carne de niño / Pilar González Bergez; title: SIX / TYPOPLAY. Depero: Futurista 1913-1927 / Fortunato Depero; title: Damn Everything But The Circus / Corita Kent; title: I Wonder / Marian Bantjes; title: The Last / Philippa Wood; title: ¿Me acompañas? / Cyla Costa; title: The Typography Codes / Church of Type; title: Justification Posters / Wael Morcos; title: Second Glance, Aku, 'Push Me' chandelier / Ebon Heath; title: Open House / Angie Butler and Philippa Wood; title: The Travelling Font Salesman / Chank Diesel and Anne Ulku; title: A Linotype Matrix-Slide-Being Distributes Gifts That Fulfill, A Linotype Matrix-Slide-Being Contemplates the Night Sky..., The Fir Tree / Brian Scott Bagdonas; title: Brighton Letterpress Print / Jamie Clarke; title: Erosion & Typography /  Jason Permenter; title: SEVEN / ALPHABETICS. Alfabetiere / Bruno Munari; title: Bembo's Zoo / Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich; title: Achoo! Bang! Crash! The Noisy Alphabet / Ross MacDonald; title: The Alphazeds / Milton and Shirley Glaser; title: Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types, Alphasaurs and Other Prehistoric Types / Werner Design Werks; title: List of Designers.