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Riot grrrl: revolution girl style now!
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Year: 2007 Publisher: London Black Dog Publishing

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Botanic gardens: a living history
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ISBN: 9781904772729 1904772722 Year: 2007 Publisher: London Black Dog

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Font : the sourcebook.
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ISBN: 9781906155414 Year: 2008 Publisher: London Black Dog

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*Font. The Sourcebook is designed to be a resource for those interested in the story of type, that is, the story of visual communication across different moments in time and different aesthetic periods. The changing shape of letterforms is explored against the backdrop of changing technologies, social mores and artistic movements, culiminating in a complete look at the ever-evolving ways that humans have created meaning through the written word.*

The first part of *Font. The Sourcebook* gives a thorough and considered history of the public word, with its roots in Egyptian hieroglyphs and Greek scrolls, to the advent of the codex format still in use today. This first section goes on to describe the mechanics of early printing, and how those original practices were revolutionised by key inventions such as moveable type, the cast-iron press and the advent of steam power. With the proliferation of casting and printing methods came a greater variety of typeface designs, paving the way for influences as wide-ranging as Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, Constructivism and Futurism, right up until the close of the twentieth century and the dawn of the digital age. *Font. The Sourcebook* goes on to describe how modern typography has been redefined by developments in information technology, foregrounding some of the most exciting and innovative work being undertaken in contemporary practice.

This comprehensive account of the story of type is periodically interrupted by comment and analysis by some of the world's leading typographers, critics, graphic designers and theoreticians, taking up themes current in contemporary practice. Contributors include Penguin's David Pearson, Chairman of the Type Directors Club Alex W White, Will Hill, Pentagram's Domenic Lippa, Ed Fella, Experimental Jetset, Sam Winston, Teal Triggs, Sybille Hagmann and Peter Bil'ak.

The second part of *Font. The Sourcebook* is a reference resource for designers, artists and anyone with a specific interest in letterforms. 50 of the most innovative and inspiring fonts in use today are profiled in these pages, alongside a short history of their origin, their inspiration and the designer who brought them to life. Each typeface entry is illustrated with an extensive library and details of distinctive design features particular to the font depicted.

*Font. The Sourcebook* is a comprehensive guide to visual communication, unpacking the historical, mechanical and aesthetic events that drove its evolution, starting from the earliest marks made for the purpose of communication to arrive at the most cutting edge digital typography emerging today.


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The creative stance
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ISBN: 9780993156311 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Common-editions


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War and Medicine
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ISBN: 9781906155520 1906155526 Year: 2008 Publisher: London : Black Dog Publishing,

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Curiosity : art and the pleasures of knowing
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Year: 2013 Publisher: London Hayward Gallery

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Sleeping and dreaming
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ISBN: 1906155054 9781906155056 Year: 2007 Publisher: London : Black Dog publishing,

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Marble in Metamorphosis
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ISBN: 9780987634429 0987634429 Year: 2022 Publisher: Collingwood, VIC Molonglo

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Marble in Metamorphosis contemplates the physical and cultural life of marble. It explores the ethics, politics and symbolism of its use and deliberates over the spirit of the material and why some cultures so revere and desire it. In reflecting on the deep relationship between marble and human culture, it considers the social and historical function of the material throughout time. Marble in Metamorphosis features a new essay on marble and its uses written by acclaimed novelist and writer Rachel Cusk, who -- while on a trip to a marble bearing island in Greece's Aegean sea -- writes on the modern notion of classicism, the fate of monuments through history and the tension between classicism and realism in art and architecture. Chris Kontos' photographic series explores two landscapes marked by marble and its uses: the island of Tinos, with its long tradition of marble mining and craft; and Athens, which has an ancient and enduring connection to marble evident in its ubiquitous presence throughout the city. These photographs tell a story of extraction, craft, tradition, and how meaning is made and remade through marble as a material in the city.

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