Customer Reviews

Hand Job: A Catalog of Type

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I was hoping for pages filled with fonts A-z and 0-9 in hand drawn styles and seeing how they were applied to ads, flyers, etc. Instead, several examples per artist are shown in alphabetical order by name of the artist. Website references are give for most artists.
This book is extremely liberating given the approach I typically apply to typography and typesetting.

I was really looking forward to receiving this book. It arrived and I opened it on the best design. There are a couple of real gems in there, but there is a big gap between these gems (Adam Haye, Jose Ricardo Cabral Cabacos, A.J. Purdy and Luke Ramsey) and the rest.

This book pulls together hand done type from all kinds of sources. If you are a graphic designer or illustrator, this is an overwhelming source of inspiration, and you will look at it everyday. It has something for everyone, and is worth every penny and more.

I bought this book and it truly is awesome. I immediately embraced the hand drawn medium. I was lucky enough to have an appropriate project. When I brought it into work (I work at a Vegas ad agency) I learned a fellow designer had his copy stolen. The more resources the better, you'll want your own copy of this, but stealing books or ideas is just wrong. Buy this sucker!

this book is solid and thankfully comes with urls but the best page certainly is the cover. I had high expectations and was a bit let down. I strongly recommend flipping through it before deciding whether to purchase it.

oh. my. gosh. I love this book! so inspiring and full of eye candy. makes me want to draw...even though I'm not very good at it. it's nice to see typography as art.

La verdad es que yo esperaba algo más de este libro.
La producción está muy bien hecha, y estéticamente es muy bonito.
Pero creo que todos los diseños de este libro siguen un estilo ilustrativo muy parecido; y creo que la tipografía manual da mucho más de sí que solamente el tipo de ilustración que está actualmente de moda para marcas como nike o adidas.
También me falta algo más de texto sobre el tema.
Pero el libro en sí, "es bonito".

The best thing about this book is the name. I feel like whoever put this book together was trying too hard to fill pages and got to a point where it didn't matter what went into it. There are a few gems, but there is a lot of crap that looks like what I used to doodle in 7th grade.

I discovered this book almost a year ago, and wanted it instantly. Only the price stopped me from purchasing it then and there. The seller's price for the new book was unbeatable, and though the shipping was a little slow (expedited wasn't available), the book fulfilled all of my expectations. It was an incredible purchase.

I'm a little biased because i am in the book. but it really is something i pick up at least once a week and page through. pops off the shelf. Mike did an awesome job curating this book and all of us in it, owe him many thanks. plus, the title is simply classic.