Typographic Specimens: A Natural History of Letterforms - Hardcover

Andrew Bainbridge

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781453098 ISBN 13: 9781781453094

Publisher: Ammonite Press, 2017

Synopsis

Typographic Specimens is a collection of extraordinary creatures made entirely out of letterforms, numerals and punctuation marks. The book presents 60 'species' from the imagination of author and illustrator, A.W. Bainbridge, taken from a fictional manuscript by the Reverend Jackson Whitehead, who served aboard the HMS Pica sister ship to the Beagle during Charles Darwin s famous voyage in the 1830s. The menagerie of beasts, fish, fowl and invertebrates, all created from traditional typefaces, numerals and punctuation marks, ranges from the Bracket Spider or Hanging Parentheses , which traps its prey by encasing them in its finely bracketed web, to the Comma Cat, identifiable by its very short pause.

About this title

About the Author

A.W. Bainbridge is an artist, designer and educator. His natural talent for drawing led to him studying art, eventually specializing in Graphic Design at Preston Polytechnic. After graduating in 1991 he practised for the best part of a decade with The Chase Creative Consultants, one of the UK's leading design agencies. He returned to Higher Education in 1999 and is currently Senior Lecturer in Graphic Communications and Creative Thinking at The University of Central Lancashire. Lecturing aside, he has a penchant for words and type, and is an inveterate collector, connector and documenter, and a serial dry stone waller.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ammonite Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781453098
• ISBN 13: 9781781453094
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 112