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Alphabet In Motion : How Letters Get Their Shape
Kelli Anderson
Hardback Book  |  Art  |  06 Nov 2025
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Alphabet In Motion : How Letters Get Their Shape by Kelli Anderson is a Art Hardback Book.

Featuring 17 stunning interactive pop-ups, this ABC book explains-as well as demonstrates-the technologies and philosophies that have shaped letterforms through the ages. Readers will learn about '60s psychedelic type by projecting light through a phototypesetting pop-up; how screen technology shaped letterforms by turning on and off anti-aliasing; or the aesthetics of typographic modularity by reconfiguring the puzzle pieces of Josef Albers' Kombinations-Schrif.Type history is often technical and always visual. It is therefore challenging to fully explain in text or in diagrams alone. The book's interactive features provide a sensory inroad for curious general readers to grasp how typography has transformed through history (and how lettering can convey a point of view or philosophical stance). A 128-page companion essay section includes an essay further contextualising each pop-up. Alphabet in Motion puts the reader's hands, eyes and minds in touch with the meanings behind the typography that surrounds us in our homes, on our screens and on our streets. If you look carefully, you can see the history of the world-from the Bronze Age to the Information Age-in the microcosm of type.Kelli Anderson is a graphic designer, paper engineer, educator and author who uses design magic to connect people with the hidden talents of everyday things. Her previous publications include This Book Is a Camera (MoMA, 2015)-which transforms into a working camera-and This Book Is a Planetarium (Chronicle, 2017)-which houses paper devices (including a planetarium) and has sold more than 100,000 copies.

Ideal for readers interested in art.

Title: Alphabet In Motion : How Letters Get Their Shape

Format: Hardback Book

Release Date: 06 Nov 2025

Author: Kelli Anderson

Sku: 3512534

Catalogue No: 9780997175912

Category: Art


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