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The Making of Artistic Typefaces

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The Making of Artistic Typefaces offers a creative dive into typography design, focusing on handcrafted typefaces and practical skills for font creation. The book presents a variety of innovative projects, from lettering with 3D-printing and spray paint to using flowers, chocolate shavings, paper folding, plywood, cement, coins, and sprinkles, demonstrating diverse applications in posters, book covers, and event branding.
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This book is ideal for type-loving creatives and designers interested in exploring dynamic, handcrafted fonts and experimental typography techniques.

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A showcase of a broad range of creative typography projects and their applications - perfect for anyone who loves innovative design.

A global collection of amazing handmade typefaces for graphic designers.

Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! Description

A creative approach to the ever-popular field of typography design, showcasing handcrafted types as well as a toolkit of ideas and practical skills for creating fonts. Type-loving creatives will find instructions on how to re-create dynamic typefaces, as well as examples of individual fonts and their use in poster design, book covers, and event branding.

Featured projects include lettering created with 3D-printing and spray paint, flowers and chocolate shavings, paper folding and cutting, large-form pieces constructed from plywood and cement, and even coins and sprinkles.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9789881470379

Publisher: Gingko Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 January 2017

Country: Germany

Imprint: Gingko Press

Illustration: 600 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Sendpoints Publishing Co., Ltd.
  • Edited by Sendpoints Publishing Co., Ltd.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 217.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 240

About the Author

SendPoints is a China-based publisher of design books and magazines. Representing traditional and cutting edge designs from around the world, their publications range across art and culture, graphic and product design, fashion, exhibition, interior design and architecture.

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