Playful Type: Ephemeral Lettering and Illustrative Fonts Book

Graphic designers have always developed and designed new fonts for applicationin individual projects. Playful Type discovers a new and young generationof designers who are applying typography beyond the classical typeset and creatinga dynamic range of playful and illustrative fonts and ephemeral lettering.Playful Type examines how designers today are creating typography with the aidof a multitude of different techniques. From manual lettering, calligraphy andcollage to manipulative time exposure of photographs, designers are developingfonts for the moment which are irregular and often accidental. Blocks of ice areeven being staged as real characters and paper cut forms and shadows metamorphoseinto letters and spatial installations. This book shows such cuttingedgeexamples of elusive scripts that are being translated into serially employablealphabets to be used digitally with the computer.Playful Type presents an inspiring collection of illustrative fonts and hand-madetypography created from a variety of cutting-edge approaches and indicatescurrent development in font design.Read More