Hand lettering is making a comeback, bursting out of its graphic-design bubble and finding a mainstream via collecting social media sites like Instagram and Pinterest. The avid interest in hand lettering seemingly goes hand in hand with the weariness audiences feel with constant slick digital presentation of the information they consume. The Art of Lettering collects myriad new and established graphic designers for whom hand lettering is a time-honored art that has modern applications. Showcasing more than 100 artists from all over the world, the book displays their typographic takes and illustrates their perfectly imperfect handcrafted art, from beautiful photographs of concept sketches to the end result. Straying away from traditional pen calligraphy, artists today employ new and creative approaches, including building type with coffee grounds, watercolours, and combinations of different hand tools, resulting in a dynamically fresh approach to creating type.

Appearing in an era of rapid change in the printing and publishing industries, James Joyce's Ulysses exploited and exemplified those industries to the degree that the book can be seen as a virtual museum of 1904 media. Publishing in Joyce's "Ulysses": Newspapers, Advertising and Printing, edited by William S. Brockman, Tekla Mecsnober and Sabrina Alonso, gathers twelve essays by Joyce scholars exploring facets of those trades that pervade the substance of the book. Essays explore the book's incorporation of mass-market weekly magazines, contemporary advertising slogans, newspaper clippings, the "Aeolus" episode's printing office and the varied typographic styles of successive editions of Ulysses. Placing Joyce's work in its historical milieu, the collection offers a fresh perspective on modern print culture. Contributors are: Sabrina Alonso, Harald Beck, William S. Brockman, Elisabetta d'Erme, Judith Harrington, Matthew Hayward, Sangam MacDuff, Tekla Mecsnober, Tamara Radak, Fritz Senn, David Spurr, Jolanta Wawrzycka.

Icons shape the way we see the world around us in business, communication, entertainment, and much more. Now is your chance to learn to speak the textless language of icons with Thinking in Icons. From the most refined corporate visual systems to the ubiquitous emoji, icons have become an international language of symbols as well as a way to make a wholly unique statement. Without even realizing it, billions of people interpret the language of icons each day, this is the designer's guide to creating the next great statement. In Thinking in Icons, artist and designer Felix Sockwell--logo developer for Appleand other high-profile companies, as well as GUI creator for the New York Times app--takes you through the process of creating an effective icon. You will cover many styles and visual approaches to this deceptively complex art. Sockwell also offers examples of his collaborations with Stefan Sagmeister, Debbie Millman, and other luminary designers. Thinking in Icons also features the work Sockwell has done with an impressive roster of blue-chip international brands, including Facebook, Google, Hasbro, Sony and Yahoo.

Typography for Screen features various creative typography projects for screens in different devices and applications, such as motion graphics, webpage design, and conceptual experiments and explores typographic application in visual and information hierarchies within the digital screen envi- ronment. Exclusive interviews with designers and studios integrate different knowledge and design philosophies consti- tuting a true source of inspiration for designers and students. It includes QR codes with links to the designers' webpages showing the typefaces in use.

"Amusing Alphabet Mazes" makes typography puzzling with 80 mazes in a variety of shapes and display styles, all constructed with letters of the alphabet. The mazes range from fairly easy to moderately difficult and are appropriate for both older children and adults. All mazes are classic mazes with an entry and one path to the exit and over 20 of them are created using tessellation patterns of letters. Solutions are provide at the end of the book. (This book is not meant for pre-school or Kindergarten children trying to learn their ABCs. If you are looking for that type of book, consider the author's "Easy Alphabet Mazes." "Tessellating Alphabet Mazes for Kids" is slightly more difficult and also for children. Two other maze books based on letters that are meant for adults are the author's "Puzzling Typography" and "Puzzling Typography A Sequel.")

Type designers are fanatical; living, breathing and eating type as they strive to create fonts capable of withstanding the test of time. This new book aims to be the definitive resource for aspiring typographers with profiles and interviews of ten internationally renowned typeface designers on the state of typography. While they work with different alphabets or characters - Roman, Cyrillic and Chinese - they share a common bond as they work to improve visual communication. Also included is a showcase of contemporary applications. What's your type?