Picturing and poeting
Title:
Picturing and poeting
Author:
Fletcher, Alan.
ISBN:
9780714847122
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London : Phaidon, 2006.
Physical Description:
374 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait ; 25 cm
Contents:
Words into visions : Fletcher's poetic eye -- Working and playing -- cloakroom at the Magic Circle -- People and Places -- six degrees of separation -- What are you? -- Typographic folk art -- Word pictures -- alert eye -- Ambiguity -- Shared opinion -- Menagerie of imaginary creatures -- Gbobledigook -- Alphabetic excursions -- Drawings of DRAWING -- ALPHABET monograms -- MEANDER -- Forethought -- Who was who -- Atelier Works ampersand collection -- Badger Graphics -- Vagabond Pizza -- Observations on art -- campus fountain -- Nonsense diagrams -- Four doppelgangers -- Santa Claus -- Dust to dust -- Wild flowers -- African embassy myth -- Relics -- zodiac -- square -- Squaring up -- speech -- Crossed wires -- Colourways -- Faces -- Visual comparisons -- design recipe -- ortolan -- Carton icons -- Umbrellas -- Optimist and pessimist -- Cocktails -- Salutations -- Confrontations -- Origami -- Useful hint -- Billet Doux -- artifact -- maker -- Chinese horoscope -- status factor -- Marilyn's French curves -- absence factor -- matter of style -- nomad eye -- Shadow portraits -- Streetscapes -- Sunrises -- Mindscaping -- Sesquipedalianism -- Writing is drawing -- Greengrocer calligraphy -- twin towers -- Avenue Road, Pink Green -- Facading -- Rooms -- Hitler's bathroom -- Room 606 -- Room 101 -- Gravy Williams -- Proportion -- Real celebrities -- Characterization -- Word domains -- Make believe -- Letterworks -- Calligraphic bricolage -- Typographic melange -- Memos from Gozo -- More Gozo -- Anachronisms -- This is a typeface -- alphabet of sorts -- Wild West cattle brands -- Bits and pieces.
Abstract:
Following on the success of The Art of Looking Sideways, Picturing and Poeting presents an eye-catching and mind-teasing collection of visual games, doodles, graphic objects, sketches and quotations, that demonstrates how images can often convey meaning more clearly than text. A fascinating and entertaining exploration of the potential that words have to become pictures, and that drawings have to convey meanings, as well as an intriguing collection of ephemera. Assembled from the notebooks and travel diaries of Alan Fletcher, over a lifetime of noticing the detail and wit in everything and applying his own unique style, this book will appeal to everyone who enjoys visual games, puns and witty stories. Accompanied by succinct and insightful observations into the nature of meaning and the workings of images, this book attempts to illustrate the inner workings of one of the most creative minds and most internationally influential figures in graphic design working today.