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Calligraphy & Calligraphers
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CD08. Art of Denis Brown CD ROM
The Calligraphic Art of Denis Brown.
This easy to use CDrom shows Denis' progress from school-age child to the mature scribe he is today. The images are viewable through an Internet browser program for easier viewing. There are many examples of Denis's amazing and unique works. He uses the pen and manipulates his images after scanning them onto a computer. A real treat. Well worth the cost.
While supplies last, a separate CD portfolio of Denis' Large Scale and Architectural Applications iis included with your purchase of the Art of Denis Brown CD.
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B2749. Letters: The Hows and Whys / Clark
B2749. Letters: The Hows and Whys of What We Do,& How I Do It By Michael Clark. 2007. 60pp. 4.5"x7". Paper
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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B2908. Fraktur mon Amour/Schlansky
Fraktur mon Amour
By Judith Schlansky. English Edition 2008. 646pp. 5"x8". Hardcover.
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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B2746. Great Book of Gaelic
An Leabhar Mor: The Great Book of Gaelic
Edited by Malcolm Maclean and Theo Dorgan. 2002. 321pp. 10.25"x8.5". Paper.
A project of Gaelic (Scottish and Irish) poets, artists and scribes & a typographer. The 100 poems are drawn from the last 1500 years and is presented in both Gaelic and English. 50 Scottish and 50 Irish visual artists - including painters, printmakers and photographers - created a work in response to the text. Full color.
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B2912. Edward Johnston: Master Calligrapher
Edward Johnston: Master Calligrapher.
By Peter Holliday. 2006. 416pp. 8.5"x11". Hardcover.
Edward Johnston was key to the revival of calligraphy in the 20th century. His Writing & Illuminating & Lettering
published originally in 1906 is still an important instructional manual. This new volume looks afresh at Johnston’s work and legacy, his friendships and philosophy, the people he
worked with, and the influence on them and others, and the details of the establishment of the craft community in Ditchling. Peter Holliday was a master scribe.
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B3072. Looking at the Same Moon
Looking at the Same Moon: Modern Japanese and Western Calligraphy. 9.25"x6"
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 front cover and a 36-page signature with the artist's comments is hidden as part of the back cover.
Now available
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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 are mathmatics, morse code, Braille. The authors connect all these dots and more.
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B2762. Encyc of Callig/Noble & Mehigan
The Encyclopedia of Calligraphy Techniques
By Mary Noble and Janet Mehigan. 2005. 160pp. 9"x9". Hardcover. Retail Price $27.95
This manual for beginning and intermediate scribes covers all the main hands plus edged brush and ruling pen. Includes an extensive section on illumination techniques plus experimental gilding and decorative borders. The extensive and superb gallery brings together traditional and experimental practitioners. Plenty here to inspire you!
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CD09. World of Alphabets (Zapf, Hermann)
CD-ROM. The World of Alphabets: A Kaleidoscope of Drawings and Letterforms.
200 color digital reproductions of works spanning the past 60 years of Hermann Zapf's career. Selected typeface sketches, calligraphic exemplars, broadside layouts, book designs and previously unpublished pieces from Zapf's personal archive. For PC or MAC OS9.
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B2244. Belle Lettere
Belle Lettere.
1997. 168pp. 9.5" x 12". 200 illustrations, almost all in full color. Hardcover.
This full-color book presents the best works from the entries for the Belle Lettere Prize. It is a glorious volume filled with full-page and detail color shots of the expressive calligraphic pieces. All are in full color. It is a painterly presentation printed on an off-white sheet, which gives the color reproduction a subtle warmth. Contributors include Denis Brown, Jane Dill, Ward Dunham & Linnea Lundquist, Olive Bull, Glen Epstein, Rose Folsom, Georgianna Greenwood, Thomas Ingmire, Cheryl Jacobsen, Hermann Kilian, Werner Schneider,Brody Neuenschwander, Jan Owen, Paul Shaw, Susan Skarsgard. There are also many Europeans who are little known to American calligraphers. Introductory essays are by Carlo Buffa "So Far, So Close"; Thomas Ingmire "Calligraphy in the 20th Century"; Tiziano Santi "Between Word and Image"; and Manfredo Massironi "The Pleasure of Showing & Looking at Words." A final essay by Monica
Dengo is on "The Work of Thomas Ingmire." Each essay is in English and Italian.
Please be warned. The f-word appears on pages 10-11. If the word gives you offense, don’t purchase this book.
The copies available at this time no longer have a slipcase as did the earliest copies. We do not have access to more slipcases.
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