Type Tells Tales focuses on typography that is integral to the message or story it is expressing.
ALPHABETICS:?Bruno Munari Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich Ross MacDonald Milton and Shirley Glaser Werner Design WerksDesigners & website list.
TYPOPLAY: Fortunato Depero Corita Kent Marian Bantjes Philippa Wood Cyla Costa Church of Type Wael Morcos Ebon Heath Angie Butler and Philippa Wood Chank Diesel and Anne Ulku Brian Scott Bagdonas Jamie Clarke Jason Permenter7.
CLASSICS: Kiril Zlatkov Sam Winston Damian Sena Hermes Mazali Pilar Gonzalez Bergez6.
MONUMENTAL: Alida Sayer Ariane Spanier Design Brian Rea Daniel Patrick Helmstetter Lust Timothy Goodman Rogers Eckersley Design (RED) 5.
MANIFESTO: Paula Scher Paulo Soleri Johanna Drucker Richard Eckersley Sawdust John Hendrix Isabel Seiffert Lora Fosberg Laurie Rosenwald John Passafiume Nick Reeve Natali Cohen NOT A BENE Visual (NBv) Annie Vought Jack Summerford Oliver Munday Carolyn Sewell4.
DRAMATICS: Francis Picabia Leo Lionni Robert Massin Warren Lehrer Maira Kalman Molly Leach Stuart Sharpe Jonny Hannah Tom Hingston Peter Blegvad and Andrew Swainson Patrick King3.
POETICS: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman John Cage Walasse Ting Barrie Tullett Antonius Bui Dylan McDonough Dirk Hagner Agrafka Studio Allen Crawford Bianca Bunsas Herman Inclusus Pedro Antonio Gabriel Anhorn Warren Lehrer2.
It will enthral designers and illustrators, wordsmiths and literati: anyone, in short, who loves the medium of the message.
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This exciting, fresh take on typography goes far beyond the letter and word, exploding the boundaries of typographic expression.
There are examples of how typographic blocks, paragraphs, sentences and blurbs can be used to guide the eye through dense information.
Letters take the shape and form of other things, such as people, faces, animals, cars or planes.
Seeking out examples in the furthest reaches of graphic design, Steven Heller and Gail Anderson uncover work that reveals how Type can be used to render a particular voice or multiple conversations, how letters can be used in various shapes and sizes to create a kind of typographic pantomime, and how Type can become both content and illustration as in, for example Paul Rand s ROARRRRR .
Precedents for contemporary work might be in Apollinaire s calligram Il pleut or Kurt Schwitters children s picture book The Scarecrow , or in Concrete Poetry, Futurist Words in Freedom or Dadaist collage.
It can be hand lettering, drawn with its own distinctive peculiarities that convey personality and mood.
This can be quite literal, for example when letters come from the mouth of a person or thing, as in a comics balloon.
And the narrator is the typographer.
This is Type that speaks that is literally the voice of the narrator.
Type Tells Tales focuses on typography that is integral to the message or story it is expressing
