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The Galloping Gourmet Television Cookbook by Graham Kerr, c.1969 Lots of butter.

The Galloping Gourmet Television Cookbook by Graham Kerr, c.1969

Lots of butter.

Love. Love.

Love. Love.

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The ceiling of a guest room at Hotel Boheme in San Francisco. Allen Ginsberg stayed there quite a bit in the 1950’s and his favorite room is at the end of the hall. Across the street from Boheme is City Lights Bookstore, an independent bookseller with a rich history. Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights went on to publish paperback editions and is credited with being the birthplace of the beatnick movement. Ferlinghetti was tried (and acquitted) in 1957 for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s Howl which at the time was seen by some as “obscene.” For further reading, here’s a nice article about the shop and its landmark status from the San Francisco Chronicle, 2000.

The ceiling of a guest room at Hotel Boheme in San Francisco. Allen Ginsberg stayed there quite a bit in the 1950’s and his favorite room is at the end of the hall.

Across the street from Boheme is City Lights Bookstore, an independent bookseller with a rich history. Founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, City Lights went on to publish paperback editions and is credited with being the birthplace of the beatnick movement.

Ferlinghetti was tried (and acquitted) in 1957 for publishing Allen Ginsberg’s Howl which at the time was seen by some as “obscene.”

For further reading, here’s a nice article about the shop and its landmark status from the San Francisco Chronicle, 2000.

TYPOGRAPHY SHELF #1 My personal favorites are starred. ☆ Wolfgang Weingart, My Way to Typography☆ Simon Loxley, Type: The Secret History of Letters☆ Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style Weingart’s book is a lot about process and has many sketchbook drawings, items of inspiration and experimental graphic compositions. Type: The Secret History of Letters is like “Behind the Music” for pre-digital typography. It has great stories about pivotal people in type design, their lives and legacies. Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style is the bible of typesetting. I think every typographer should curl up with this book and read it like a novel. After, keep it nearby for reference.

TYPOGRAPHY SHELF #1
My personal favorites are starred.

☆ Wolfgang Weingart, My Way to Typography
☆ Simon Loxley, Type: The Secret History of Letters
☆ Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

Weingart’s book is a lot about process and has many sketchbook drawings, items of inspiration and experimental graphic compositions. Type: The Secret History of Letters is like “Behind the Music” for pre-digital typography. It has great stories about pivotal people in type design, their lives and legacies. Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style is the bible of typesetting. I think every typographer should curl up with this book and read it like a novel. After, keep it nearby for reference.

TYPOGRAPHY SHELF #2 My personal favorites are starred. ☆ Alexander S. Lawson, Anatomy of a Typeface☆ Fred Smeijers, Counterpunch☆ Lewis Blackwell, 20th Century Type Remix (Links to the new updated edition.)☆ Steven Heller and Philip B. Meggs (Editors), Texts on Type Texts on Type is an amazing collection of essays on typography written by design superstars. Paul Rand, Jan Tschichold, Rick Poynor, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Beatrice Warde, Emil Ruder, and on and on. Counterpunch explores 16th Century metal printing types by looking at the negative space of letterforms. It’s a great account of what the type design process was like in the early days of printing. Reading this book made me want to visit The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium.

TYPOGRAPHY SHELF #2
My personal favorites are starred.

☆ Alexander S. Lawson, Anatomy of a Typeface
☆ Fred Smeijers, Counterpunch
☆ Lewis Blackwell, 20th Century Type Remix (Links to the new updated edition.)
☆ Steven Heller and Philip B. Meggs (Editors), Texts on Type

Texts on Type is an amazing collection of essays on typography written by design superstars. Paul Rand, Jan Tschichold, Rick Poynor, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Beatrice Warde, Emil Ruder, and on and on. Counterpunch explores 16th Century metal printing types by looking at the negative space of letterforms. It’s a great account of what the type design process was like in the early days of printing. Reading this book made me want to visit The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp, Belgium.

TYPOGRAPHY SHELF #3 My personal favorites are starred. ☆ Stanley Morison, A Tally of Types☆ Jan Tschichold, The New Typography Stanley Morison, designer of Times New Roman (one of the most ubiquitous typefaces in the universe) originally wrote A Tally of Types as a promotional publication for his then employer, Monotype Corporation. The New Typography is a classic argument for the use of sans-serif types.

TYPOGRAPHY SHELF #3
My personal favorites are starred.

☆ Stanley Morison, A Tally of Types
☆ Jan Tschichold, The New Typography

Stanley Morison, designer of Times New Roman (one of the most ubiquitous typefaces in the universe) originally wrote A Tally of Types as a promotional publication for his then employer, Monotype Corporation. The New Typography is a classic argument for the use of sans-serif types.