This the latest book by the German publisher Verlag Hermann Schmidt Mainz. Brush ‘n’ Script contains a comprehensive collection of the most beautiful and extravagant script fonts today. Throughout its 480 pages you will find expressive handwritings such as Cezanne’s, elegant Italian and French cursives,  wonderful English handwritings with distinct elegance such as Champion Script Pro, expressional marker fonts, brush scripts, as well as freestyle fonts. The recent revived interest for handwriting fonts has inspired a book which mixes 300 sophisticated scripts from prestigious type foundries with specimens from historic manuscripts and expressive typographic illustrations. A must-have book for calligraphers, type historians, students and typographers.

We just got our hands on TypoLyrics a book about music and typefaces. This new publication by Slanted, presents the works of several celebrated graphic designers as well as talented young designers from around the world, who use typefaces to give shape to lyrics of more than 170 songs from new wave and disco to metal and hip hop. The result is awesome. Eleven chapters of a well organized book with each chapter presenting a different typeface category and a different style of music. Contributions come from 123buero (GER), Base (ES), bauer (A), Bureau Mario Lombardo (GER), Bureau Mirko Borsche (GER), Fons Hickmann m23 (GER), Gavillet & Rust (CH), L2M3 (GER), Mainstudio (NL), Matt W. Moore (USA), Norm (CH), Paula Troxler (CH), Pixelgarten (GER), Vier5 (FR) and many more. Two Parachute typefaces Centro Slab Pro and Ornamental Treasures were selected and presented in the Hip Hop and Rock ‘n’ Roll/Swing categories by Benedict Rohrer and Jonas Beuchert. Surely this is a must have book for your library.

This newly released edition of Slanted magazine takes a look into blackletter fonts and their modern applications. Slanted presents innovative work from a variety of sources such as Invisible Creature, Linotype and the Klingspor Museum. Contemporary blackletter fonts and designers from around the world are introduced, followed by interviews with Alejandro Paul, Bernard Stein, Alex Trochut and Christophe Szpajdel. The chapter introduction pages are decorated with Hubert Jocham’s headline-font “NeoThorn S10” exclusively created for this issue in two styles.

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The new book, by FHTF Publishing, is about a well known graffiti artist Niels Meulman, the contemporary Dutch calligrapher, typographer and designer who gained his initial recognition as the graffiti artist “SHOE”. After an apprenticeship with Dutch graphic design master Anthon Beeke, he went on to run his own design company, worked as senior art director for BBDO and more recently as a creative director for MTV Europe. He freelances and specializes in typographic design. His designs are part of the permanent collections of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and MOMA in San Francisco.

Now his personal art known as “Calligraffiti” -a blend of calligraphy and graffiti- after being exposed to various museums around the world, is gathered in a book by the name “Calligraffiti”. This impressive publication showcases a fine selection of artworks by Meulman as he presents, for our viewing pleasure, a wonderful series of fast phrases and upbeat witticisms in the form of captivating typographic masterpieces. The book contains more than 250 Illustrations & photos in 144 pages of printed matter.

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Call for entries for the new book edited by Florian Gaertner, Lars Harmsen and Ulrich Weiß of Magma Brand Design, published by Index Book in Barcelona later this year.
TypoShirt One is the first publication which focuses exclusively on the typography phenomenon of the t-shirt culture. You are invited to submit your projects showing quotes, sentences, words, letters and numbers or any other typographic piece of work.

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