A Book For People Who Love Typography

If you are someone who loves typography as I do, you should treat yourself to a magnificent book on the subject by Steven Heller and Louise Fili. The book—Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age—contains more than three hundred pages of vintage magazine images, signage, advertisements, stationery, food labels, wine bottles, packaging, and more. Script…

Some things haven’t changed

In a world where things are constantly changing, self-publishing and book marketing have remained relatively constant over the years. I recently re-read Peter Bowerman’s book, The Well-Fed Self-Publisher (my copy was published in 2007) — it has been on my shelf for many years — and realized that much of his advice is just as relevant today as it…

Book review

Elegantissima, the Design & Typography of Louise Fili by Louise Fili is a beautiful book filled with impressive designs—a compilation of identity projects, branding, and logo designs. While I was watching an online course called, “Expressive Lettering with Swashes and Flourishes,” the speaker, designer Dan Forster, was inspired by Louise Fili and showed examples from her book. I was…

Van Gogh exhibit 

This summer, we went to the Art Institute of Chicago to see the Van Gogh exhibit. It was fabulous. We were dazzled by more than seventy-five paintings and drawings by master artists Vincent van Gogh, as well as Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles Angrand.  While we were enjoying the paintings, we saw a book…

Three Book Marketing Book Reviews

There’s always something to learn about book marketing. I recommend the following books for authors and writers. Put these on your reading list for 2017. 1) Online Marketing for Busy Authors by Fauzia Burke. This is an easy-to-read book with a concrete, step-by-step process for beginning authors to follow. Small-business owners who are just starting…

Vintage color history

I inherited a vintage book “Achievement in Photo-Engraving and Letterpress Printing” 1927, it’s ONLY 488 pages with over 600 illustrations. Published by the American Photo-Engravers Association (Chicago, IL). “Definition: Photo-Engraving is an interpretive art founded upon photo-mechanical processes enhanced by skill and artistry, which translate and convert tone values into relief printing surfaces, from which…