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Junk Type: Typography - Lettering - Badges - Logos

Junk Type: Typography - Lettering - Badges - Logos

Rose, Bill
Essl, Mike

Hardcover

Typography & Calligraphy

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ISBN10: 0789332655
ISBN13: 9780789332653
Publisher: Rizzoli Universe
Published: Apr 4 2017
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 8.30 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
A graphic compendium of vintage American design and typography.

Junk Type is a project driven by the passion of one man to document a disappearing aspect of American culture. Bill Rose--aka Recapturist--is a photographer and designer who has spent the last decade traveling across America looking for junkyards, yard sales, antique stores, and other unlikely sources of inspiration to capture examples of postwar American typography and design before they're lost forever.

Bringing together more than 400 images, this invaluable book is a visual history of postwar America, told through the distinct typography, icons, badges, and branding of the country's industrial heritage. From Art Deco-inspired fonts and unique handmade cursive lettering to illustrated insignia and clean graphic logos bearing the influence of European design of the 1960s, these pictures together represent an encyclopedic reference of creative typefaces and graphics.

With each photograph representing just a detail--an embossed logo, a specially created icon, or an advertising slogan--this book captures the optimism and pragmatism of a golden age of American industrial creativity and distills it into a charming resource for anyone with an eye (or nostalgia) for vintage design.

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