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Title: A TYPOGRAPHIC ABECEDARIUM
By: Ornan Rotem
Format: Paperback

List price: £18.00


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ISBN 10: 1909631000
ISBN 13: 9781909631007
Publisher: SYLPH EDITIONS
Pub. date: 17 July, 2015
Pages: 136
Description: IN
Synopsis: Letterforms are an inseparable part of a civilized literary landscape. At some distant point in history, letters started as representations of things in the world. Then, gradually, through a complex evolutionary process, they came to be defined as the closed shapes of a writing system. This photo-typographic essay is a meditation on this remarkable transition. Exploring the relationship between typography and the visual world around us, the essay looks at the twenty-six letters of the English version of the Roman alphabet in four manners: as the world presenting itself in the shape of a letter, as an intended letter in space, as a flat letter on paper, and finally as a pure geometric form embodied in a typeface. Familiar letterforms are presented in fresh, surprising ways, forming an homage to the beauty of type and a reflection on its ubiquity in our visual understanding of the world around us. Alongside the fascinating images, Ornan Rotem's text offers an overview and a detailed discussion of each letter. In this unusual book, text and image coalesce to create a modern day primer on letters: a typographic abecedarium.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Sylph Editions
Returns: Returnable
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