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Art Nouveau: The Essential Reference
"This is a gorgeous book, ideal for any lover of Art Nouveau." —bookaddiction Dover's extensive library of Art Nouveau graphic art and typography serves as the source for this comprehensive volume, which features hundreds of magnificent full-color and black-and-white illustrations. Images by virtually every key artist of the Art Nouveau movement include the work of Alphonse Mucha, E. A. Seguy, Aubrey Beardsley, Koloman Moser, Max Benirschke, and M. P. Verneuil. Selections from rare books and portfolios of the period include works never reprinted since their initial publication. This book also reprints material from the major Art Nouveau periodicals, including Jugend, The Studio, Dekorative Vorbilder, and The Keramic Studio. Detailed bibliographical information concerning every source ― including biographical details of each artist ― makes this collection a vital reference tool as well as a stunning compendium of significant and beautiful Art Nouveau graphics. Students of graphic art, typography, and illustration, as well as graphic designers and advertising professionals, will prize this remarkable resource.
Treasury of Authentic Art Nouveau Alphabets, Decorative Initials, Monograms, Frames, & Ornaments
Gathers hundreds of art nouveau-style alphabets and discusses the development of these typefaces
Recasting a Craft
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, type for newspapers and books was set one letter at a time, and the manufacturers of the metal type used in the printing trade were called typefounders. This prominent yet rarely documented industry was essential to the development of modern American publishing and was particularly prevalent in St. Louis. In Recasting a Craft: St. Louis Typefounders Respond to Industrialization, Robert A. Mullen recognizes the city's significant contributions to typefounding and details how the craft fundamentally changed through mechanization, growth, and the creation of a large conglomerate. Like many trades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries th...
990 Art Nouveau Monograms
This singular collection displays pairs of letters, transforming ornamental initials into Art Nouveau masterpieces. Undulating lines, sensuous curves, writhing vines, and tendrils of leafy flora decorate every two-character combination, from A to Z. Featuring 990 imaginative illustrations, this treasury is perfect for tracing and copying. The marvelous monograms will also be enjoyed for their fine aesthetic beauty, and are sure to provide a wealth of inspiration for art projects of any kind.
Letter Forms
Illustrates 110 complete alphabets in various type styles in capital letters, and includes sixteen complete lower case alphabets, and seventy sets of numbers and other symbols.
Grunge Alphabets
Offbeat, eye-catching typefaces add a sharp, contemporary look to display ads, posters, signs, menus, and other graphic projects. Fonts include the jagged-edged style of Ransom Note, playful Kidprint and Fingerpaint, angular Desert Rat, whimsical Crazy Eights, and dozens more: Ninja, Hardscrabble, Everglades, Double Take, Bushman, Bramble, and Aspodistra.
100 Decorative Condensed Alphabets
Handy archive of royalty-free typefaces ideal for ads, signs, menus, etc. Calico Casual, Designer Raleigh, Easter Gothic, Galaxy One, many other fonts. Use with any copier for an endless source of condensed type.
Extra-bold Alphabets
Comprehensive archive of especially bold fonts ideal for advertising, signs, posters, announcements, etc. Banker's Roman, Dolmen, Elizabethan, Goudy Heavyface, many more. Most fonts include upper- and lowercase letters, punctuation, numerals.
The Alpine Journal
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