Letterheads

Typographic Portraits

Author: Maree Coote

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Description

What's in a name? Maree Coote reveals the missing link between word and image.

This award-winning illustrator has developed her own graphic language of illustrative typography, making images of all kinds using only the letters of the subject's name and existing alphabets. This ambitious collection of fabulous faces includes punks, presidents, muso's, muses, heroes and horrors, in a gathering of unforgettable humanity. Includes an insight into the genesis of the 'Fontigram', the inspirations and working practices of the designer, and a smattering of type history for the afficionado. The result is a delight for lovers of typefaces, human faces and serendipity. .

Critic Reviews

“"This rhythmic tour takes visual poetry to a new level." -- Foreword Reviews on Letters From New York "Readers will finish the book both awed and eager to embark on their own typographical experiments." -- Publishers Weekly on Spellbound "A fresh tribute to the creative possibilities of letter-form art: stylish and sophisticated." -- Kirkus Reviews on Animology”

Maree Coote’s Letter Art is: funky and exciting... CBCA
amusing and intriguing... Kirkus Reviews
inventive and utterly captivating... fun, inspiring and totally entertaining Booklist Magazine USA
..spinning visual poetry to a new level... dazzling Foreword Reviews USA

About the Author

One of the very first to identify the contemporary rise of Melbourne’s cultural and place power, Maree Coote has won The Royal Historical Society of Victoria’s Gold Prize for The Art of Being Melbourne. Her unique command of history, culture, art and design is made accessible for a wide variety of audiences, including children. Coote was the first to create a children’s picture book for Melbourne kids, When You Go To Melbourne. According to Philip Adams, “Melbourne never had a more ingenious ambassador.” Coote’s first book The Melbourne Book: A History of Now is in its fourth edition after 12+ years in print, and has been dubbed ‘Melbourne’s Bible’.