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Fraktur mon Amour - Princeton Architectural Press
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1- Cover

2 à 6- Interior views from Fraktur mon Amour

All images courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press, 2008

Fraktur mon Amour is the fruit of an obsession - that of Berlin-based graphic designer Judith Schalansky for the Fraktur typeface, also known as Blackletter or Gothic. Widely used in the Middle-Ages, superseded by the Antiqua during the Renaissance, banned by the Nazis as a Jewish production before being banned outright as a Nazi production, the Fraktur has today been restored to its former glory. The present book is a staggering ode to Fraktur in all guises, a compilation of 300 sets among the most striking, accompanied by a wealthy tribute of graphic creations. A black-and-pink Bible for all worshippers of typegraphy.


Fraktur mon Amour, ed. Judith Schalansky, Princeton Architectural Press, hardcover, 684 pages, 300 complete character sets, comes with a CD containing 137 fonts intended for private or limited commercial use, $75/£45, 2008 

Book's page on www.papress.com


Forecast - Princeton Architectural Press
 

1- Couverture

2- p. 43

3- pp. 56-57

4- pp. 166-167

5- pp. 22-23

from Forecast

All images courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press, 2008

Forecast is the latest issue of Nozone, an editorial UFO that gravitates between magazine, art book, and pamphlet. The theme, to cut a long story short: as is announced by climatologists, sociologists, economists, and the whole crowd of people whose job it is to try to foresee stuff of any kind, the sky will soon be falling on our heads. A state of affairs that has the merit of keeping graphic artists and illustrators busy. If there had to be only one thing left to bear witness to our species' sojourn on Earth, it would have to be Forecast: it shall prove that, in spite of our recklessness, we had at least a notion of what we were getting ourselves into - and that, after all, Man wasn't just good at destroying planets.

 

Forecast - Nozone X, ed. Nicholas Blechman, Princeton Architectural Press, paperback, 168 pages, 170 2-color illustrations, $24.95/£14.95, 2008

Book's page on www.papress.com