![]() Typography is the convergence of art and language. ![]() I had played around with lettering in an amateur way as a teenager, but I had no notion of typography until I was exposed to it in a typography course taught by George Sadek and William Bevington at Cooper Union. I discovered typography as an art student in the early 1980s. How did you become interested in typography? She also stirred up some controversy over her Free Fonts Manifesto, which you can read about here. ![]() Many have remarked that she made learning about typography fun and ‘do I look fat in this paragraph’ and ‘typography is what language looks like’ are now oft-quoted phrases. Graphic designer, curator, artist, educator and writer, Ellen Lupton is perhaps best known for her Thinking With Type-a book that in many respects opened up typography to a wider audience. ![]()
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The central figure in the folk-lore Robin Hood is an outlaw and excellent archer known for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. ![]() ![]() Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || PinterestĮver since I finished Holly Black's The Folk of the Air series, I've been dying to get my hands on other mature YA fantasy books that capture that same breathless atmosphere of sensuality, back-stabbing, and court intrigue. Part Sleeping Beauty, part Anastasia, with a thrilling political mystery, The Winter Duke is a spellbinding story about choosing what's right in the face of danger. And if Ekata is to survive, she must quickly decide how she will wield it. If Kylma Above is to survive, Ekata must seize her family's power. ![]() Nothing has prepared Ekata for diplomacy, for war, for love.or for a crown she has never wanted. 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