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Deco Type: Stylish Alphabets from the '20s and '30s (Art Deco Design)

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Deco Type is a wonderful record of typography from the 1920's and 30's.Although it deals with mainly european type it shows a fantastic range within 'the style' that will also be recognizable and enjoyable to the American collector or historian.Until now the most valuble and informative source on Deco type that I have been able to find, a beautifully presented and un-misable book in my collection!

This is an excellent entry in the terrific Heller/Fili series on Deco graphics, but it isn't strictly a book of fonts. Like the other books ("German Modern", "French Modern", "British Modern", "Italian Art Deco"), it is a collection of striking graphic images from the period, this time with an emphasis on characteristic lettering styles. Relatively few of the fonts are shown in a complete and therefore usable form, so this book is more of an inspiration and a reference tool than a directly applicable source of type. But it's an inspiration for sure, and has been very helpful to me in my work, and it's also simply a visual pleasure.