The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923

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Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art and literature. In The Visible Word, Johanna Drucker shows how later art criticism has distorted our understanding of such works. She argues that Futurist, Dadaist, and Cubist artists emphasized materiality as the heart of their experimental approach to both visual and poetic forms of representation; by mid-century, howe… More >>

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Whatever Shall I Wear? A Guide to Assembling a Woman’s Basic 18th C. Wardrobe

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A small but complete guide to 18th C. women’s costume, throughout the century. Includes fabric choices, sewing hints, colors, shifts, petticoats, pockets, stays and jumps, bed gowns, short gowns, jackets, gowns aprons, caps shoes, cloaks, hair styles, jewelry and more. Illustrated by Cathy (Kate) Johnson, longtime member of the Costume Society of America. Cover blurbs from Sharon Ann Burnston and Sally Queen, authors and clothing historians, and Sue Felshin, re… More >>

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Typography Is For Cool Kids

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The final project for the Typography for Print and Web class at La Salle University, this book is one student’s ideas on how typography works in the eyes of the cool kid. Setting type as mood, logos, as well as style ideas and a list of his top five fonts, I explain what I think and feel about typography…. More >>

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