Megan Hyland latest project is cinematic trip through the alphabet. She has created a silk screen poster for each letter of the alphabet based on a movie title. Of course, if you’re talking movies, your never too far from books. Here are a few that were adapted into screenplays. View the complete Movie Alphabet
Continue readingAs Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “every word was once a poem”, but where do these words come from? Independent filmmaker Jessica Oreck unfolds some of the etymological meaning of words in her new animated mini-series, Mysteries of Vernacular. Each word is skillfully constructed within the pages of old books, then animated in a 90 second short, often taking 80 hours or more to create. When complete, the Mysteries’ shorts will contain 26 installments of word origins in alphabetical order. By day, Oreck produces documentary films on such topics as…
Continue readingThe Golden Alphabet; or Parent’s Guide and Child’s Instructor, published by Robert Taylor. This extremely rare miniature alphabet book from 1846 contains some beautiful decorated initials, followed by several pages of rhymes and moral platitudes for parenting and instruction of children. Based on these three images, I can only presume that Taylor was a far better evangelist than he was a printer or typesetter. Damn the wordspacing and to hell with letterspacing! The word kern must have…
Continue readingHere’s some cool book love out of the Stockholm design firm Byggstudio. An Alphabet: and a vectorized font: Thanks to Swissmiss for the lead
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