Lettering large : art and design of monumental typography / Steven Heller & Mirko Ilić.

By:

Heller, Steven

Contributor(s):

Ilić, Mirko, 1956-

Material type:

TextDescription: 239 pages : color illlustrations ; 29 cmISBN:

9781580933599
1580933599

Other title:

Art and design of monumental typography

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Pictorial works.

DDC classification:

745.61 23

LOC classification:

NK3600 .H353 2013

Contents:

Extroverted type: size matters -- Monumental outdoor type -- Typo-hypnotic messages -- Big and better: type as object -- A-R-T in T-Y-P-E.

Summary: "Typography has jumped off the printed page to stand on its own as branding, sculpture, and even architecture. "Lettering Large" is the first to chronicle letters as presences in the urban landscape. Preeminent graphic design and typographic commentator and historian Steve Heller teams with Mirko Ilić, a noted graphic designer, to select the most dramatic and telling examples culled from sites across the United States and throughout Europe and Asia"--Page [4] of cover.

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Extroverted type: size matters -- Monumental outdoor type -- Typo-hypnotic messages -- Big and better: type as object -- A-R-T in T-Y-P-E.

"Typography has jumped off the printed page to stand on its own as branding, sculpture, and even architecture. "Lettering Large" is the first to chronicle letters as presences in the urban landscape. Preeminent graphic design and typographic commentator and historian Steve Heller teams with Mirko Ilić, a noted graphic designer, to select the most dramatic and telling examples culled from sites across the United States and throughout Europe and Asia"--Page [4] of cover.

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Lettering large : art and design of monumental typography / Steven Heller & Mirko Ilić.