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

By:

Heller, Steven

Contributor(s):

Ilić, Mirko, 1956-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [New York, NY] : Monacelli Press, [2013]Description: 239 pages : color illlustrations ; 29 cmISBN:

9781580933599
1580933599

Other title:

Art and design of monumental typography

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

741.6 HEL

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.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	741.6 HEL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100575118

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Typography has jumped off the printed page to stand on its own as branding, sculpture, and even architecture. Lettering Large examines this phenomenon through a diverse collection of images collected from a vast range of sources around the world. As technology has made construction and production of monumental letters possible, the demand for their design has grown exponentially. This book 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 Ili?, a noted graphic designer, to select the most dramatic and telling examples culled from sites across the United States and throughout Europe and Asia.

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.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Steven Heller is senior Art Director for the New York Times & author of over seventy books on art, culture, & design.

He lives in New York City.

(Bowker Author Biography)