Street Fonts

Street Fonts PDF Author: Claudia Walde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500294161
Category : Graffiti
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Classic graffiti lettering and experimental typographical forms lie at the heart of street culture and have long inspired designers in many different fields. But graffiti artists, who tend to paint the same letters of their tag again and again, rarely design complete alphabets. Claudia Walde has spent over two years collecting alphabets by 154 artists from 30 countries with a view to showing the many different styles and approaches to lettering within the graffiti and street art cultures. All of the artists have roots in graffiti. Some are world renowned such as 123 Klan (Canada), Faith47 (South Africa) and Hera (Germany); others are lesser known or only now starting to emerge. Each artist received the same brief: to design all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet within the limits of a single page of the book. How they approached this task and selected the media with which to express their ideas was entirely up to them. The results are a fascinating insight into the creative process.

Just My Type

Just My Type PDF Author: Simon Garfield
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847652921
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
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.

Graffiti Alphabets

Graffiti Alphabets PDF Author: Claudia Walde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500515693
Category : Alphabet in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An international survey of graffiti and street art, and a unique typographical sourcebook as well.

Learn to Draw a Graffiti Master-piece

Learn to Draw a Graffiti Master-piece PDF Author: Graffiti Diplomacy
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9780988777293
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Teaches a variety of graffiti word designs. Includes step-by-step instructions, in both pictures and text that will guide one through the process of creating a graffiti masterpiece.

Flip the Script

Flip the Script PDF Author: Christian P. Acker
Publisher: Gingko Press Editions
ISBN: 9781584234609
Category : Graffiti
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Distinctive hand style lettering is an essential skill for artists and designers. Deftly executed hand crafted letter forms are a nearly forgotten art in an age of endless free fonts. Graffiti is one of the last reservoirs of highly refined, well-practiced penmanship. Within the pages of FLIP THE SCRIPT, the best hand styles are analysed, contextualising the work of graffiti writers from around America. Author Acker presents the various lettering samples in a clean organized format, giving the material a proper, formal treatment evoking classic typography books.

Typography for the People

Typography for the People PDF Author: Daniel Bellon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440309868
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 522

Book Description
Street + Art = Inspiration Designers Daniel and Klaus Bellon have been photographing street signage around the world for more than 17 years. This book celebrates their love of typography, and highlights the beauty of type in its truest form; not as a profession but as a necessity of everyday life. The images captured here are at times humorous, unexpected and even charming. But for those who understand the rules that are being broken, these explorations of type design are refreshing and inspiring. Even though graphic designers often think of themselves as the keepers of letterforms and typography, they do not own them. Typography belongs to everyone. Typography belongs to the people. Includes a royalty-free CD with 15 original fonts inspired by signs in the book. Type images were collected from countries around the world, including the United States, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Belize, Canada, Colombia, Venezuela, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, and Malaysia.

Copyright in the Street

Copyright in the Street PDF Author: Enrico Bonadio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009198688
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
This book provides an oral account of how copyright narratives are penetrating street art and graffiti subcultures.

Indie Fonts 2/Ed

Indie Fonts 2/Ed PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781610596817
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 414

Book Description
If you seem like your hunger for new fonts is insatiable, then Indie Fonts 2 is the book for you. It is the second installment in RockportÆs Indie Fonts series and brings you even more fonts to choose from. DonÆt settle for ordinary fonts when you can capture your readerÆs attention with an original font that hasnÆt been become overused and boring. Indie Fonts 2 includes more than 1600 diverse fonts from 19 of todayÆs hottest digital type foundries and features the best work of these designers. This comprehensive collection helps designers do their jobs even better by providing some of the highest quality fonts available today. The type styles range from the best of Matthew CarterÆs classic designs to the latest irreverence of ingoFonts. Designers searching for unique typefaces will find what they are looking for, whether historical revivals or futuristic techno faces.

ABCD of Typography

ABCD of Typography PDF Author: David Rault
Publisher: SelfMadeHero
ISBN: 9781910593714
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
For the first time, the history of typography is told in comic strip form Typography confronts us everywhere: in books and newspapers, on road signs, in product packaging, and on political leaflets. It is ubiquitous to the point of mundanity. But while the typeface might be secondary to the message, it remains crucial to the way we respond. Fonts spark emotions; they evoke eras and ideologies. Some, like Edward Johnson's for the London Underground, have become iconic. Others, like Comic Sans, are loathed. Each one has its own place in history. The ABC of Typography traces 3,500 years of type from Sumerian pictographs through Roman calligraphy to Gutenberg, the Bauhaus, and beyond. Brimming with insight and anecdote, this witty and well-informed graphic guide explores the historical, technological, and cultural shifts that have defined the look of the words we read.
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