Books: Flip the Script: A Guidebook for Aspiring Vandals and Typographers

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Publishers: Gingko Press
Year: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Orientation: Portrait
Dimensions: 27,4 x 21,2 x 3,2 cm
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Pages: 224
Edition: 1st Edition: 2012 Hardcover + blue cover / 2nd Edition: 2013 Hardcover + Silver cover ? / 3rd Edition: 2014 Hardcover cover? / 4th Edition: 2022 Hardcover Green cover 45$ / 5th Edition: 2023 Hardcover Gold cover 45$
Languages: English
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ISBN: ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1584234601 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1584234609

Distinctive hand style lettering is an essential skill for artists and designers. Deftly executed hand crafted letter forms are a nearly forgotten art in an age of endless free fonts. Graffiti is one of the last reservoirs of highly refined, well practiced penmanship. The most reviled and persecuted form of Graffiti, the Tag, is seldom appreciated for the raw beauty of its skeletal letter forms. Most tags are removed immediately, and thus the casual viewer seldom has a chance to discern the difference between entry level and advanced hand styles. Within the pages of Flip the Script, author Christian Acker has systematically analyzed the best graffiti hand styles, contextualizing the work of graffiti writers from around the United States. Acker presents the various lettering samples in a clean organized format, giving the material a proper, formal treatment evoking classic typography books.

Flip the Script: A Guidebook for Aspiring Vandals and Typographers

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