A Hand Job

First I must say after having an approach to typography, I start to worry about my visual lexicon. I guess the typography inside there may be all wrong because I wrote everything inside rather than print them. And I don't really know what to do to save it because it is already done.

Here comes what I have discovered in typography.

A CATALOG OF TYPE. HAND JOB.

I borrowed this book from the library accidenly and after the class it came to my mind. The author of this book names Michael Perry. He does typography design by hand. Poeple all say that "in this digital age of computer-generated graphics and typography, it is refreshing to see a small subtle of typograqphy who still believe in working by hand". In his book, there are various beautiful typograohys made by hand. Here are some photos.

He made letters into different shapes. I like this H very much because it looks like a dinosaur.

And his design are very detailed with patterns or lines.

However, I think his work is just for fun or in other words, his designs are all decorative typography are cannot be always applied to no matter formal or informal texts. And these designs more tend to be beautiful drawings rather than typography, though the author itself called it so.

It is indeed refreshing to see these designs because they are more vivid and colorful. But I still think we should in some way make it more useful.