Beschreibung:
Type Tells Tales focuses on typography that is integral to the message or story it is expressing. This is type that speaks - that is literally the voice of the narrator. And the narrator is the typographer. This can be quite literal, for example when letters come from the mouth of a person or thing, as in a comics balloon. It can be hand lettering, drawn with its own distinctive peculiarities that convey personality and mood. Precedents for contemporary work might be in Apollinaire's calligram 'Il pleut' or Kurt Schwitters' children's picture book 'The Scarecrow', or in Concrete Poetry, Futurist 'Words in Freedom' or Dadaist collage. Seeking out examples in the furthest reaches of graphic design, Steven Heller and Gail Anderson uncover work that reveals how type can be used to render a particular voice or multiple conversations, how letters can be used in various shapes and sizes to create a kind of typographic pantomime, and how type can become both content and illustration as in, for example Paul Rand's 'ROARRRRR'. Letters take the shape and form of other things, such as people, faces, animals, cars or planes. There are examples of how typographic blocks, paragraphs, sentences and blurbs can be used to guide the eye through dense information. This exciting, fresh take on typography goes far beyond the letter and word, exploding the boundaries of typographic expression. It will enthral designers and illustrators, wordsmiths and literati: anyone, in short, who loves the medium of the message.
INTRODUCTION -- ONE / POETICS. Les mots en liberté futuristes (Futurist Words in Freedom) / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti -- The Next Call / Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman -- Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel / Robert Massin -- Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) / John Cage -- Hot & Sour Soup / Walasse Ting -- Selections from The Typographic Dante / Barrie Tullett -- Your Song / Antonius Bui -- INTGRS / Dylan McDonough -- Texted Haiku Broadsides / Dirk Hagner -- The Five Books by Hrytsko Chubay / Agrafka Studio -- Whitman Illuminated: Song of myself / Allen Crawford -- Anatomia Poetica / Bianca Bunsas -- Dismal Incantation/ Herman Inclusus -- Eu Me Chamo Antônio, Segundo -- Eu Me Chamo Antônio / Pedro Antônio Gabriel Anhorn -- Stretch Marks / Warren Lehrer -- TWO / DRAMATICS. La Danse / Francis Picabia -- How to Read Fortune in Bed / Leo Lionni -- The Bald Soprano / Robert Massin -- i mean you know / Warren Lehrer -- French Fries / Warren Lehrer -- Max Makes a Million / Maira Kalman -- The Stinky Cheese Man & Other Fairly Stupid Tales / Molly Leach -- Mouse and Kat and the Evil One / Stuart Sharpe -- Hot Jazz Special / Jonny Hannah -- David Bowie's 'Sue (Or In A Season of Crime)' / Tom Hingston -- Gonwards / Peter Blegvad and Andrew Swainson -- Love Story: The 1950s/The 1960s/The 1970s/The 1980s / Patrick King -- The Subtle Cosmos / Alexandra Beguez