Contents
Reds, blacks, and bold diagonals
Simple shapes and primary colors
Functional, neutral, and asymmetric
Create a Hatch Show Print–inspired poster
Get groovy with a ’60s rock poster
There is no future in England’s dreaming
Where flyaway hair and masthead meet
Subdued colors and wandering baselines
Capture a moment with a “mix tape”
Vintage repetition and randomness
A chat about illustrating a classic
Grooving with moveable type in the 21st century
Wrangle hundreds of pages like a pro
Be flexible and sweat the small stuff
Step-by-step recipe instructions
Create a six-page magazine feature article
Design a menu for your favorite restaurant
Design a table of contents spread
Evoke a place or genre with type
Fading signs from times gone by
Combine type, texture, and vintage clip art
Create a map exclusively from type
The best of times, and the worst of times
Get cryptic with an Old Master
Explore the personality of type
A new logo for a venerable institution
Give a typographic voice to a favorite song lyric or quote
A chat with the creator of Barlow
Type Patterns and Transformations
What letters do when they’re off duty
Go large with your initial letter
Let your letters sprout swirls and spirals
Turn symbols into a working picture font
Bold letters worthy of a great city
Explore the possibilities of chromatic type