The Book about My Letters tells about 78 projects related to typography over the past 25 years. The publication is incredible in many ways, and there has never been such a thing in Russian or on our book market.
Firstly, the author of the text, illustrations, and all fonts, and there are more than a hundred of them, the designer, photographer, typesetter, and publisher is one person. He is the author of all the projects described in the book.
Secondly, the projects themselves are extremely diverse.
These are fonts — textual, accidental, superaccidental, experimental — even made specifically for one book.
This is lettering, from the simple to the fantastic.
This is pure art, somehow connected with the text. For example, a book of erotic poems on bed linen.
These are art maps: literary, ethnographic, historical.
And much, much more.
The book has a rigid turn-based structure. Each project is enclosed in a separate capsule: it starts on the left page, ends on the right — no matter how many pages there are.
The book about my letters is interactive. Almost every project is accompanied by QR codes leading to the pages of my website or to other places where you can see and read more. In particular, you can use QR codes to view all my fonts mentioned in the book. We can say that the font catalog is hidden in the book.
And finally, there is an amazing mistake in the book, which was most unimaginably unnoticed by anyone until the moment the author began to look through the finished edition. On the dust jacket, instead of "|———o Gordon" is "|———o Gord".
I will not reprint the super. In this version of the sale, I simply add two missing letters with a white felt-tip pen. At the same time, I try to break the film packaging as little as possible: the book will arrive to the buyer completely unopened.
The book becomes unique and even signed: the fact is that the letters "o—n" are practically a copy of my long-necked signature |———o, turned from right to left. That's how I usually sign my work.
The publication is copyrighted.
The edition is 500 copies.
There will be no reprinting or republishing with an error.
