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ABZ / [edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alphabets.
- Lettering.
- Type and type-founding.
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on cover: More alphabets and other signs
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- Delightfully unpredictable, "ABZ" is a wonderbook of typography, graphics, and symbols. Rothenstein, creator of the popular Redstone line of cards and calendars, turns his idiosyncratic eye towards eccentric alphabets, emblems, and logos discovered in avant-garde modernist publications and other curious sources. Illustrations.
- Contents:
- A Czech modernist alphabet
- The antifascist schoolbook
- Eye test charts
- Sign-writer's alphabets
- The art of layout
- Captions.
- Notes:
- Previous ed. titled: Alphabets & other signs. Boston : Shambhala, c1993.
- ISBN:
- 0811839818
- OCLC:
- 52498073
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