Calligraphy

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For beginning calligraphers, this book presents a new lettering challenge for each day of the year, 365 in all (plus a bonus for Leap Day). In addition to daily practice, a practical lettering project is provided for each week--52 in all, ranging from wholly creative projects such as designing an aw... More

"A fun and varied collection of recent posters, books, ads, and other designed pieces that all employ type that is scrawled, scratched, stitched, or otherwise noodled."--"Communication Arts" Hand-drawn graphics mark a return to the creator's immediacy and craft. Increasingly, advertising campaigns, ... More

The Japanese use two styles of writing at the same time: kanji--Chinese characters, which are ideograms, and kana--which are purely phonetic characters. This fascinating book introduces Japanese calligraphy and gives practical instruction showing the way these two styles of writing are combined. The... More

A remarkable series of studies, including 23 complete alphabets, in ornate penmanship, reprinted from a rare 19th-century volume on 50 full-page plates. Among the lettering styles and designs: Roman print, German text, Old English print, English church text, spurred and finished block letters and Go... More

A striking collection of stationery designs that seamlessly combine art and function to visually represent a client's identity.A striking collection of stationery designs that seamlessly combine art and function to visually represent a client's identity.... More

"The most comprehensive guide to learning the art of calligraphy." This step-by-step handbook to the ancient art of beautiful lettering includes the key scripts of the world: Europe's major Roman alphabets (including Versal and Copperplate), Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese. E... More

Famous Manuscripts - The fascinating world of medieval miniature painting and illuminationFamous Manuscripts - The fascinating world of medieval miniature painting and illumination... More

With enthusiasm and energy, he guides the artist through all the traditional techniques, illustrating how to create atmosphere and light in landscapes, focusing on trees, water, mountains, sky and clouds. He shows how to capture liveliness and movement in animals, birds, fish and insects, and he tra... More

Immensely practical volume (one of the largest of this sort available) contains 100 alphabets in 43 different languages, from Arabic to Welsh. 33 in accented Latin script (Albanian, Basque, Catalan); 10 in non-Latin scripts (Celtic, Cyrillic, Hebrew.) Ideal for any graphic or printed communications.... More

Add a lavish period touch to advertisements, posters, menus -- almost any graphic project -- with the 865 superbly drawn, black-and-white capital letters in this lovely collection. Reproduced from authentic Victorian sources, the designs include simple, striking initials alongside more fanciful ones... More

Taking her inspiration from the Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels, Vivien Lunniss shows how to recreate the beauty of Celtic calligraphy in this detailed guide. Using step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow instructions, the in-depth resource demonstrates how to write the letters and how... More

Here for the first time is a book that brings the interests of the graphic designer and the lettering artist together by detailing the enormous potential of original lettering in graphic design.An inspirational guide to the creation and adaptation of letterforms, this book draws on examples from pac... More

Add contemporary, decorative flair to almost any graphic project with such modern eye-catching typefaces as Glow Worm, Futurama Italic, Double Vision, Cubist, Convoy, Chickadee Open, and 94 other fonts. All alphabets include uppercase letters; many also display lowercase initials, punctuation and nu... More

Reading Images focuses on the multi-layered relationships between the textual image and its reader-viewer in the Apocalypse manuscripts produced in England during the thirteenth century, a period of profound changes in the social and cultural fabric. The exponential expansion in the production and d... More

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