I’ve tried to find good lists of bookshops specialised in type design, typography and graphic design, but it is very hard to find anything useful. So I decided to make my own list. I am using Google Maps because adding new entries is really fast and because it is easy to check on the phone, […]
By looking back at my Rolling Bibliography I’ve noticed that there is no city in the world without its very own book about (vernacular) public lettering. Although this is an exaggeration, it can be said that there are more and more cities being the object of such kind of books. More often [graphic and type] designers, photographers, and the […]
My supervisor recommended to have a ‘rolling’ bibliography. I couldn’t love the name more. The original ‘rolling’ one includes mostly everything I am reading. I thought I could clean it and leave only the books related to public lettering and share it. Maybe one day I will add comments on each book, but considering the […]
Off topic is a new section in this blog: topics not particularly about to graphic and typography but somehow related. In this case, Pedro Arilla,* a close friend and type designer who is visiting London this Christmas, asked me about second-hand bookshops in London. I could have sent him a list of bookshops but I […]
*First published at Congreso Internacional de Tipografía de Valencia, Valencia, June 2010, as: “Lettering comercial en Inglaterra. Estudio de diez manuales de lettering durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX: contenido, autores, lectores y aspectos formales“. Essay submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the MA (Res) Typography & Graphic Communication. Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, University […]