Type tells tales

Type tells tales

Steven Heller

Book - 2017

"Stretching the boundaries of typographic expression, Type Tells Tales is a sensational showcase of type that is integral to the message it conveys, with the capacity to emote, engage, and guide the reader from one thought to the next. Navigating the far reaches of graphic design, Steven Heller and Gail Anderson reveal how type can render a particular voice or multiple conversations, how letters in various shapes and sizes can guide the eye through dense information, and how type can become both content and illustration, as letters take the form of people, animals, cars, or planes. The book's 332 illustrations - including 290 in color - feature historical examples by T.T. Marinetti, Bruno Munari, and Francis Picabia, among others,... as well as by contemporary designers such as Richard Eckersley, John Hendrix, Maira Kalman, and Corita Kent. The book firmly locates the letter in the realm of artistry, finding exciting common ground among the pursuits of design, illustration, writing, and typography"--From jacket flap.

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Subjects
Type and type-founding in art.
Letter-pictures.
Words in art.
Graphic arts.
Published
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press [2017].
Language
English
Main Author
Steven Heller (author)
Other Authors
Gail Anderson, 1962- (author)
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm
ISBN
9780300226799
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ONE / POETICS. Les mots en liberté futuristes (Futurist Words in Freedom) / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
  • The Next Call / Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman
  • Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel / Robert Massin
  • Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) / John Cage
  • Hot & Sour Soup / Walasse Ting
  • Selections from The Typographic Dante / Barrie Tullett
  • Your Song / Antonius Bui
  • INTGRS / Dylan McDonough
  • Texted Haiku Broadsides / Dirk Hagner
  • The Five Books by Hrytsko Chubay / Agrafka Studio
  • Whitman Illuminated: Song of myself / Allen Crawford
  • Anatomia Poetica / Bianca Bunsas
  • Dismal Incantation/ Herman Inclusus
  • Eu Me Chamo Antônio, Segundo - Eu Me Chamo Antônio / Pedro Antônio Gabriel Anhorn
  • Stretch Marks / Warren Lehrer
  • TWO / DRAMATICS. La Danse / Francis Picabia
  • How to Read Fortune in Bed / Leo Lionni
  • The Bald Soprano / Robert Massin
  • i mean you know / Warren Lehrer
  • French Fries / Warren Lehrer
  • Max Makes a Million / Maira Kalman
  • The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales / Molly Leach
  • Mouse and Kat and the Evil One / Stuart Sharpe
  • Hot Jazz Special / Jonny Hannah
  • David Bowie's 'Sue (Or In A Season of Crime)' / Tom Hingston
  • Gonwards / Peter Blegvad and Andrew Swainson
  • Love Story: The 1950s/The 1960s/The 1970s/The 1980s / Patrick King
  • The Subtle Cosmos / Alexandra Beguez
  • THREE / MANIFESTO. All the News That Fits / Paula Scher
  • Visionary Cities: The Arcology of Paolo Soleri / Paolo Soleri
  • History of the/my Wor(l)d / Johanna Drucker
  • The Telephone Book / Richard Eckersley
  • Sawdust / Wired
  • Drawings in Church / John Hendrix
  • Not the End of Print / Isabel Seiffert
  • Text Paintings / Lora Fosberg
  • all the wrong people have self-esteem / Laurie Rosenwald
  • Process / John Passafiume
  • Wedding Suit Lining / Nick Reeve
  • Coline/Text Tights / Natalie Cohen
  • In Order to Control / NOTA BENE Visual (NBv)
  • Gosh I've been here before, Underneath the blah, I am Crossing an Ocean, With 2 Others on a Piece of Paper / Annie Vought
  • Obvious? / Jack Summerford
  • The Wire Poster Project / Oliver Munday
  • Postcards to my Parents / Carolyn Sewell
  • FOUR / MONUMENTAL. A Vanishing Point, Here We Are I, All Moments / Alida Sayer
  • Style Stones, Lives Remembered / Ariane Spanier Design
  • Fears / Brian Rea
  • Steep and Drink: A Study in Grey Orchids / Daniel Patrick Helmstetter
  • 'Type/Dynamics' / Lust
  • Flexfit / Timothy Goodman
  • Stat Bats / Rogers Eckersley Design (RED)
  • FIVE / CLASSICS. Daniil Kharms's 'Selected Works' / Kiril Zlatkov
  • a made up/true story, Romeo & Juliet / Sam Winston
  • Manuel Puig - Entre el cine y la escritura / Damián Sena
  • 'The Tell-Tale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe / Hermes Mazali
  • La carne de niño / Pilar González Bergez
  • SIX / TYPOPLAY. Depero: Futurista 1913-1927 / Fortunato Depero
  • Damn Everything But The Circus / Corita Kent
  • I Wonder / Marian Bantjes
  • The Last / Philippa Wood
  • ¿Me acompañas? / Cyla Costa
  • The Typography Codes / Church of Type
  • Justification Posters / Wael Morcos
  • Second Glance, Aku, 'Push Me' chandelier / Ebon Heath
  • Open House / Angie Butler and Philippa Wood
  • The Travelling Font Salesman / Chank Diesel and Anne Ulku
  • A Linotype Matrix-Slide-Being Distributes Gifts That Fulfill, A Linotype Matrix-Slide-Being Contemplates the Night Sky..., The Fir Tree / Brian Scott Bagdonas
  • Brighton Letterpress Print / Jamie Clarke
  • Erosion & Typography / Jason Permenter
  • SEVEN / ALPHABETICS. Alfabetiere / Bruno Munari
  • Bembo's Zoo / Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich
  • Achoo! Bang! Crash! The Noisy Alphabet / Ross MacDonald
  • The Alphazeds / Milton and Shirley Glaser
  • Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types, Alphasaurs and Other Prehistoric Types / Werner Design Werks
  • List of Designers.
Review by Choice Review

Heller and Anderson (both, School of Visual Arts) have produced a beautiful book examining the increasingly diverse world of type and font design. Books of this kind have been popular at least since Walter Tracy's Letters of Credit was published by Godine in 1986. The trend has only increased with the coming of the internet age and the proliferation of fonts. Heller and Anderson take the reader/viewer through a smorgasbord of tasty typographic treats. As always with type design, discretion is called for: many of the fonts the authors include are exercises in personal expression and may not be the most readable or legible. Special note must be made on the production values. Yale University Press has printed the book in rich color on an excellent paper in an oversize folio, production choices that enhance the drama of the typefaces and render them almost master drawings. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. --Steven Skaggs, University of Louisville

Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Heller (former art director of the New York Times) and Anderson (former creative director at SpotCo, an ad agency known for poster designs for Broadway plays) explore the endless opportunities of graphic design in this rich study of typography. The book's 332 images showcase experimental designs in which type and letters "are active participants in the composition" of written stories. Classics works, such as Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," take on a new life in the hands of designer Hermes Mazali, who illustrated a version of the story using hand-drawn lettering inspired by the human anatomy. Artist Herman Inclusus mimics the Cyrillic letter forms of medieval manuscripts for the text in his original graphic novel Dismal Incantation. The text almost disappears entirely in one of Sam Winston's compositions, which plays with the text of classic fairy tales. There are numerous examples from children's books with work from the venerable Maira Kalman and Milton Glaser. This beautiful book is sure to strike a chord with bibliophiles and art lovers alike. Color photos. (May) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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