Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape

Ever wonder how we ended up with so many different styles of letters? Open any text editor, email client, or design app and you will immediately be bombarded with a buffet of typographic choices. Serif or sans serif? Display or text? Classical or contemporary? Formal or casual? Featuring seventeen stunning interactive pop-ups, this ABC book explains—and demonstrates—the technologies and philosophies that have shaped letterforms through the ages. A reader and a looker, this one is a remarkable contribution to our history—and to the printing and engineering of books. It’s bonkers. Kelli Anderson has made something special.

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Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape

Designer

Kelli Anderson

Author

Kelli Anderson

Publisher

Katherine Small Gallery

Format

Hardcover

Pages

144

Language

ENG- English

Size

12 x 9.5 x 2.5 Inches

ISBN

978-0997175912

About the author

Kelli Anderson

Kelli Anderson is an American graphic artist and paper engineer who works with a wide range of mediums including infographics, branding design, pop up books and risograph animations. She has taught art and graphic design at Cooper Union, NYU, and SFPC, given a TED talk on disruptive art, and has published 3 books.a