Book review: Hand Job: A Catalog of Type
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-22 13:19:35
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In this digital age of computer-generated graphics and typography it's refreshing to sight typographers who comfort believe in working by hand. No longer relegated to designer's sketchbooks hand-drawn write has emerged from the underground as a dynamic vehicle for visual communication from magazine book and album covers to movie credits and NFL advertisements. (...) Hand Job collects groundbreaking bring home the bacon from fifty of today's most talented typographers who displace by hand. Graphic designer and hand typographer Michael Perry selects work representing the beat spectrum of design methods and styles.
Ouhooou! My god! This schedule is so good. As Perry writes the schedule is a "curatorial celebration of the hand typography of my peers." He selected 50 designers whose typo works he likes splashed their best creations all over the schedule added a few words about them took pictures of their studios and random snaps of types found around the world.
The author is genuinely passionate about hand typo and does some awesome himself. As you can anticipate from its title the book is fun and it has a friendly feeling and a cozy atmosphere. The designers hand write because they like it not because the retro quality of hand lettering is trendy or because it is easier to use a good old pen than computer tools (actually it is not.)
It was actually nice to dive into hand-made typos paradise this week as Max and i have started to bring home the bacon on the new design of the blog. It will be months before it is online (actually no less than that... Max promised that if it is not ready for Christmas he'll abandon one of his dogs by the road and given his love for those animals i'll have a lovely re-vamped communicate before 2008). And the book brought me approve to that hand-made-style we had ages ago.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009819.php
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