Letterform Archive Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Typographic Knitting: From Pixel to Pattern (Learn How to Knit Letters, Fonts, and Typefaces, Includes Patterns and Projects)
Rüdiger SchlömerLetterform ArchiveCheck out our online workshop with @typeknitting, author of Typographic Knitting: From Pixel to Pattern! We’ll focus on fundamental approaches to construct single letters using techniques like slip-stitches, mosaic knitting, and patchwork knitting: https://letterformarchive.org/events/view/typographic-knitting-a-stitch-by-stitch-introduction
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Little Red Riding Hood: (1810 First English Version)
Keith TarrierLetterform ArchiveWarja Lavater, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), une imagerie d’après un conte de Perrault, Adrien Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1965. https://t.co/EQaINo0A9m
Paperback, 2017
$9.25$4.63 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Marian Bantjes: Pretty Pictures
Marian BantjesLetterform ArchiveMarian Bantjes, Saks Snowflakes for Saks Fifth Avenue, 2007, as seen in Pretty Pictures, 2013. @bantjes https://t.co/PNScRhDVno
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Finally Got the News: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970-1979
Brad DuncanLetterform Archive“Repeal all anti-gay laws! Full civil rights for gay people!”, centerfold poster in The Gay Liberator, No. 18, Gay Liberation Front, Detroit, 1972. As seen in Finally Got the News!: The Printed Legacy of the U.S. Radical Left, 1970–1979 by Brad Duncan, @InterferenceArc, 2017. https://t.co/QfnrhnLqGZ
Paperback, 2017
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Le Petit Chaperon Rouge: Opera-Feerie, En Trois Actes...
Fran Ois Adrien BoieldieuLetterform ArchiveWarja Lavater, Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), une imagerie d’après un conte de Perrault, Adrien Maeght Editeur, Paris, 1965. https://t.co/EQaINo0A9m
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Love Finds the Way
Paul Leicester FordLetterform ArchiveMargaret Armstrong, lettering and illustrations for Love Finds the Way by Paul Leicester Ford, Dodd Mead & Co., New York, 1904. https://t.co/FiSHLUXOG3
Hardcover, 2016
$30.95$15.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
Heinrich ZimmerLetterform ArchiveElaine Lustig Cohen, book jacket for The King and the Corpse by Heinrich Zimmer, Meridian Books, 1958. See more of Lustig Cohen’s beautiful midcentury designs for book covers, promotional ephemera, and more in the Online Archive. https://oa.letterformarchive.org/search?dims=People&vals0=Elaine%20Lustig%20Cohen&friendly0=Elaine%20Lustig%20Cohen https://t.co/MVePLgHV9u
Paperback, 1971
$49.95$24.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Little Red Riding Hood
Tiger TalesLetterform ArchiveThis accordion-fold artist book tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood using only simple shapes as symbolic illustrations. It is part of a box set of similarly treated fairy tales created between 1965 and 1982, including Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. https://t.co/BSwN4XIGYq
Paperback, 2015
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Language of Vision
Gyorgy KepesLetterform ArchiveGyorgy Kepes, jacket designs for Language of Vision (1944), Module Proportion Symmetry Rhythm (1966), The Man-Made Object (1966), and The New Landscape in Art and Science (1956). https://t.co/mKFpHY4lPC
Paperback, 2012
$31.95$15.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Abc3D
Marion BatailleLetterform ArchiveMarion Bataille, ABC3D, Roaring Brook Press, New York, 2008. @BatailleMarion https://t.co/ZMSinwXpxm
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