Welcome to the www.calligraphity.com Newsletter
for February 2014.
Well, What a year 2013 was for some amazing
new books. The following is a short
summary of some of the great new books released last year...
Wurtzeln und Flügel - Schriftkunst, (Roots and Wings - The Art of Calligraphy) by Katherina Peiper is an amazing book. Written in both German and English, Katherina tells her calligraphic
life story, and provides (probably) over 200 stunning full colour plates of her work. Although the first 50 pages or so are
in German they are supported by an English summary. After that, the book is in both German and English. This catalogue of
Katharina's life work is amazing.
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Take Your Pleasure Seriously
- the life and work of Luca Barcellona
A stunning, stunning book with articles from Nicola Dee Mo
Peressoni and Giovanni de Faccio and an interview between Luca Barcellona and Chaz Bojorquez discussing Luca’s
journey from graffiti, graphics, design and calligraphy. Highly recommended
Click here for more information
LETMAN – The Artwork
and Lettering of Job Wouters
I adore Job Wouters’ vibrant
and colourful work. This book contains over 150 pages of amazing colourful calligraphy, graphics and design work from Job.
Click here for more information
Hand to Type – Scripts,
Hand-Lettering and Calligraphy edited by Jan Middendorp
The book features work by some of today’s
most successful and original calligraphers and lettering artists. In addition to fonts and lettering using the Latin alphabet,
it introduces artists who explore Cyrillic, Arabic, and Greek scripts.
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“The Golden Thread
– The Story of Writing by Ewan Clayton”
The summer brought us this long awaited Ewan Clayton’s
latest book in which he discusses the history of writing in a way that only Ewan could. This is not a picture book but it
is an amusing, satisfying read.
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And after a lot of lobbying by www.calligraphity.com, we finally saw the reprint of Denise Lach’s amazing book “Calligraphy - A Book of Contemporary Inspiration”. On
double pages, Denise juxtaposes photographs of natural and environmental surfaces to inspire the creation of textural calligraphy
give a pictorial context for personal pieces that are intended to evoke a mood.
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And to round the year off…
John Stevens’ long awaited new book “Scribe - Artist of
the Written Word” was available just in time for Christmas. On almost every one of the 260+ pages of this book there is 1, 2,
3… sometimes 6 stunning examples of John’s amazing work. I do not have the time to count them all but there must
be well over 500 pieces. Highly recommended.
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We can only imagine the wonders that will be available to
us in 2014!!
Finally, please click here to learn more about the new courses just announced by Nancy Ouchida-Howells that will be
held at Knuston Hall, Irchester, Wellingbourgh, Northamptonshire.
Best regards,
Charlie
