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Calligraphy & Calligraphers
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B2908. Fraktur mon Amour/Schlansky
Fraktur mon Amour
By Judith Schlansky. English Edition 2008. 646pp. 5"x8". Hardcover. $75.00. Now available.
Presents over 300 Blackletter fonts (capitals, lowercase, numbers, accented characters along with a brief text
setting ). Covers rotunda, batarde, textura, schwabacher, fraktur, modern, initials/decoratives, and contemporary
fonts. For each font: date, designer and original foundry along with digital foundry/web address where applicable. Facing each font page is a decorative page using characters from the font. Printed in black and pink. CD-Rom with 130 blackletter fonts included.
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B3055. Edward Johnston: Lettering & Life
Edward Johnston: Lettering and Life by Ewan Clayton and Phil Baines. 2007. 96pp. 8x10.5. Paper
Explores Johnston’s life and work and the influence he had on typography and calligraphy. It provides a fresh look at Johnston with 56 color and 43 b&w images of his work, along with about 25 photos from the Johnston family photograph album (including six of him in Canada in 1898).
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B3068. On the Dot
On the Dot: The Speck that Changed the World by Alexandar Humez and Nicholas Humez. 2008. 256pp 5.5"x8.25". Hardcover $24.95
A wide-ranging and entertaining account of this minuscule linguistic sign. They show how it plays many roles as a mark of puncuation – a sentence stopper, part of a colon, the ellipsis. In musical notation, it notates “and a half.” In computese it functions as the dot in .com along with more
arcane functions in computer languages. Then there is mathmatics,morse code, Braille. The authors connect all these dots and more.
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B2749. Letters The Hows and Whys of What We Do & How I Do It
B2749. Letters: The Hows and Whys of What We Do,& How I Do It
By Michael Clark. 2007. 60pp. 4.5"x7". Paper $25.00
A compilation of over 50 logos, titling, one-of-kind calligraphic clocks, typefaces, experimental pieces, and original greeting cards. In a conversational style, Michael presents some insight into the creation each. He relates details of some or all of: the thought/design process, the tools and how he used them, interaction with the client. This wonderful little book is Michael's fourth. (His first three are sold out.) Color throughout. Signed.
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B3049. Im Zaubergarten der Schrift (The Magic of Script).
Im Zaubergarten der Schrift (The Magic of Script). 2008. 9.5"x12.5".
Portfolio of 39 prints from the Berlin Calligraphy Collection. Includes work by Friedrich Poppl, Glen Epstein, Hans Schmidt, Werner Schneider, Denis Lach, Hermann Kilian, Tom Kemp, Lieve Cornil, Ewan Clayton, Hans -Joachim Burgert, and Gottfried Pott. A 28 pp booklet has essays (in German) on Calligraphy at the Academy of Art in Berlin, about the Berlin Calligraphy Collection, and one by Burgert, "If one only knew what calligraphy is..."
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DVD36. Visual Harmony with Tom Waits
Visual Harmony. DVD.
Glen Epstein’s popular multi-media presentation of three of his hand lettered and illustrated
books: Tom Traubert’s Blues, New Orleans and Pasties is now available on DVD. The presentation has had rave reviews at several summer conferences.You can preview the videos at youtube.com by searching glen epstein under videos (not channels). The small youtube screen is a poor substitute for the DVD! $25.00 through 12-31-08
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B3072. Looking at the Same Moon
Looking at the Same Moon: Modern Japanese and Western Calligraphy
Foreword by Brody Neuenschwander: Calligraphy lost to Modernity. 48 full color reproductions from an exhibit in the Netherlands in 2000. Includes western work on paper and stone by Jeroen, Joke, Kristoffel, Lisbet & Pieter Boudens along with other major Europeans letter artists and a few Americans (Stevens, Clark, Kurtz). Nine works are of Japanese calligraphy.
The presentation is unusual. Color pages are on thick card stock perforated to be sent as postcards if you wish. They are bound with clasps. A 20-page signature with Brody's foreword on text weight paper is hidden as part of the font cover and a 36-page signature with the artist's comments is hidden as part of the back cover.
Available Dec 2008 / Jan 2009
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B2982. John Stevens: Calligraphy, Design, Lettering Art
Shipping Early 2009.
B2982. John Stevens: Calligraphy, Design, Lettering Art. 2008. Approx. 160pp. 2008. 8.5"x11".Hardcover.
$35.00 (includes free media mail shipping, USA only, for a limited time)
A profusely illustrated, full color retrospective of John Stevens' work with letterforms. Includes calligraphy and lettering -- artworks, personal work, experimental work, commissioned work -- as well as graphic work and type design. His body of work spans paper to stone, books to walls, to type and the digital realm.
In the text, John presents his approach to a design or work and his thoughts on letterforms, and continues with a discussion on tools, teaching, design and writing in general. Using his body of work as example, he makes the case that barriers between fine arts and graphic arts are mostly irrelevant.
Advance pre-paid orders receive free shipping (USA only) and prepublication price. To pre-pay with a credit card, provide your credit card information now. Your credit card will not be charged until Nov 30, 2008. Please make sure your card does not expire prior to 11/08. You may instead pre-pay by check. Please post-date your check for Nov 30, 2008. Mail orders with check to PO Box 9986, Greensboro NC 27429. Books will ship Early 2009.
Foreign customers are charged shipping based on the cost of mailing.
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B2831. Passion for the Pen: Artigas/Zoby
A Passion for the Pen: The Art of Georgina Artigas
Edited by Brenda Casey Zoby. 2006. 64pp, 8.5" x1 1".
Retail Price $24.95
There are 32 pages with pointed pen lettering, mainly on invitations, certificates & awards, logos, and 8 art pieces from the Calligraphers Engagement Calendars along with many traditional American style illuminated recognition/ retirement/resolution scrolls. Born in Cuba, Artigas emigrated to the USA in the 60's and worked for the Ames & Rollinson Studio in NYC for nearly a decade before moving to Miami and setting up her own studio. 28 full color plates.
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B900. Words of Risk/Gullick
Words of Risk: The Art of Thomas Ingmire
By Michael Gullick. 1989. 90pp. 65 illus. many in full color. 9" x 12". Paper. Retail Price $25.00.
Using words as subjects, Ingmire's work has progressed from the transcription of texts to complex multi-layered visual statements.His juxtaposition of and interplay between words & images challenges the traditional role of calligraphy as "decorated writing."The book describes the work and working process of Ingmire & reproduces virtually all of his major pieces,many in full color.
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