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The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering
A Visual Guide to Contemporary Styles and Designs
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This book is ideal for professional and aspiring tattoo artists, graphic designers, typographers, and enthusiasts keen to understand the art and history of tattoo lettering.
A groundbreaking reference covering the key styles and schools in contemporary tattoo lettering. This book includes step-by-step guides to lettering design from a wide array of leading tattoo artists.
The ultimate sketch-to-skin manual: a visually rich resource of the key styles and schools in contemporary tattoo lettering, by one of the world's top tattoo artists
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The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering is a visually led, comprehensive guide to designing and realising hand-drawn letterforms in the most widely used contemporary tattoo styles. Each chapter provides an accessible overview of these key tattoo styles, including an account of their history, complexities, and relevant sub-styles.
The book includes interviews spotlighting leading practitioners, galleries of exemplary artists' work, sketches, sketchbooks, finished designs, and detailed how-to-design guides to enable readers to truly understand each style.
More than a step-by-step, technical handbook for professional and practising tattoo artists, The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering is also an informative introduction to both understanding tattoo styles, their history and context, and learning from them to inform other graphic arts. It touches on the role of lettering in tattooing, considers the components of typographic tattoos, and offers insight into how tattoo art intersects with other areas of design practice, including sign-making, furniture painting, and scrimshaw.
Combining great book design with the inimitable expertise of a master tattoo artist, The Graphic Art of Tattoo Lettering is the ultimate guide for all with an interest or involvement in tattoo art, typography and calligraphy, and graphic design.
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Los Angeles Times praises the book as "an exquisitely illustrated look at the evolution of tattoo calligraphy and typography."
Book Details
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ISBN: 9780500241530
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 26 September 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Illustration: with over 350 illustrations; 350 Illustrations, color
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 164.0mm
Height: 209.0mm
Weight: 780g
Pages: 272
About the Author
B.J. Betts is one of the most influential tattoo artists working today. Based in Delaware, USA, he has published a number of industry-standard guidebooks on tattoo lettering. Nick Schonberger is a writer, blogger and critic on fashion, culture and music. He lives in New York.
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