About This Gallery
In this gallery are examples of a variety of typography techniques. Type that circles and floats around the page, text that degrades with a character's psychotic break, fanciful letterforms, and concrete poetry are to be found. The Multi-Language Themed Gallery also contains many pieces that highlight typographic techniques.
Typography Examples
"Voice" from Shaped Poetry
Todd, Glenn. Shaped poetry: a suite of 30 typographic prints: chronicling this literary form from 300 BC to the present. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1981.
PN6110 .V56 S5 1981 FLAT, Rare
"Voice" by Philip Lamantia (1959) from a suite of letterpress printed concrete poetry, primarily printed on handmade paper.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensons.
Abbott, Edwin Abbott. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensons. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1980.
QA699 .A13 1980 FLAT, Rare
Illustrated with hand-colored die cutouts of geometric shapes, and shaped typesetting throughout. The accordion style binding allows the book to unfold and lay flat (33-feet long!) or can be read as a codex. This is the 7th title of Arion Press.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
An Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy
Xu, Bing. An Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy. Brooklyn: The Artist, 1996.
N7433.4 .X8 S78 1996 FLAT, Rare
An artist's book in the style of a Chinese calligraphy instructional manual. The text is English but you might mistake it for Chinese if you're not paying attention!
ii ss
Fraser, Kathleen and Hermine Ford. ii ss. New York: Granary Books, 2011.
N7433.4 .F69 L5 2011 FLAT. Rare
The artists state, "ii ss addresses the double-bind of to be—being human and being dependent upon the natural world for pleasure and sustenance. In this knowledge we have been awakened, with a harsh jolt, to earth’s gradual melting and shifting due to man’s deliberate avoidance patterns, both greedy and neglectful, leading us to the careless destruction of our planet home.”
Æthelwold etc : twenty-six letters inspired by other letters and non-letters and little bits of poetry
Maret, Russell. Æthelwold etc: twenty-six letters inspired by other letters and non-letters and little bits of poetry. New York: Editions Schlechter, 2012.
NK3631 .M374 A38 2012 OVER, Rare
Fanciful letterforms designed by Russell Maret with ink swatches.
The Word Made Flesh
Drucker, Johanna. The Word Made Flesh. New York : Granary Books, c1996.
PS3554 .R68 W67 1996, Rare
Offset lithography facsimile of the letterpress original. In this book, Drucker calls "attention to the visual materiality of the text, this book attempts to halt linear reading, trapping the eye in a field of letters which make a complex object on the page. The work both embodies and discusses language as a physical form." -- Publisher's website