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LETTERFORMS AND THE NARRATIVE
Over the years I have found examples of the making of letterfroms that transcend the fixed perceptions
that have served to make Typography an arid study for students.
More Icing Cakes than Kerning.
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THE ALPHABET
BOOK..... LETTERS AND SOUNDS BOOKS AND MAGAZINES FILMS CAKES..... DIAGRAMMATIC..... DECORATIVE INITIALS ON THE PAGE
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GRAUMANN'S CEMENT LETTERS IN LETTERS HANDWRITING POSTCARDS ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS HOLLYWOOD HILL SIGN ILLUSTRATORS' WRITING INVENTED LETTERS LONG-PLAYING RECORDS IN THE LANDSCAPE POPULAR PRINTS
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MANUALS MAPS NEWS PUNCTUATION NON-WESTERN LETTERS SANDWICH-MEN PARCELS NARRATIVE INITIALS MAKING SHAPES LETTERS FOUND IN IMAGES SATIRE AND CARTOONS SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS OFFICIAL FORMS
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IN A BOOK STAMPED LETTERS SPEECH BUBBLES POSTERS AND ADVERTISING
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CHARACTERISTICS BICKHAM BLAKE BRUNHOFF HAROLD JONES HERGE FEIFFER FOLON FRANCOIS HELD/PERELMAN HUGO KANDINSKY KAUFFER RIPLEY RUPERT BEN SHAHN HEYWOOD SUMNER WAINWRIGHT
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MORE OPTIONS
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 GERMAN
TYPOGRAPHY 1927, KLIMSCH'S JAHRBUCH
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INDICATES
A SEPARATE SECTION FOR YOU- but use your backbutton to return here
SINGLES
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H.Noel Humphries |
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Poster for Dames 1934 |
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LIGHT PROJECTION |
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AERIAL
MESSAGES  |
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CROWD
LETTERS  |
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CAKE LETTERS |
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Proclamation 1622 New England Trade |
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Proclamation 1620 Virginia Lottery |
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F.T.MARINETTI
typographic examples  |
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The Tonbridge Love Letter (1896) |
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TRICK
TEXT, tilt to read  (the
solution) |
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RAMON LULL, FOLDING PLATE FROM ARS MAGNA 1517 |
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F.Marinetti, Les Mots en Liberté, 1919 |
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Words on sticks, Placards at a Demo |