Custom Lettering of the 20's and 30's
Language: English
Published by Korero Press, London, 2017
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Browsing Is Arousing, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.Browsing Is Arousing
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Condition: Used - Very good
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576 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to wrappers. A celebration of the stunning and stylistically varied headline lettering that existed before the advent of phototypesetting or the computer. Collects more than 4500 examples Record # 352951.
Seller Inventory # 352951
- Title
- Custom Lettering of the 20's and 30's
- Author
- Hughes, Rian
- Publisher
- Korero Press, London
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0957664958
- ISBN 13
- 9780957664951
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About the Author
Rian Hughes is an award-winning graphic designer, illustrator, comic artist, writer, and typographer who has worked extensively for the British and American advertising, music, and comic book industries. His recent books include Custom Lettering of the ’20s and ’30s, Soho Dives, Soho Divas, and XX: A Novel, Graphic. He has an extensive collection of Thunderbirds memorabilia, a fridge full of vodka, and a stack of easy listening albums which he plays very quietly in his home in London.
Foreword by Zavier Leslie Cabarga
Zavier Leslie Cabarga is an illustrator, type and logo designer, and author of many books, including Progressive German Graphics, Dynamic Black and White Illustration, and The Logo, Font & Lettering Bible. As an illustrator, Zavier’s work has appeared in New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and on the covers of magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Fortune, National Lampoon, and Screw.
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Browsing Is Arousing
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