Free Hand New Typography Sketchbooks

This show-all tour through leading graphic designers' personal sketchbooks reveals the creative processes behind the creation of typefaces, word-images and logos. Arranged alphabetically by name, the world's most exciting designers and typographers, including Philippe Apeloig, Ed Benguiat, Hoefler Type Foundry, Henrik Kubel, Toshi Omagari and Francesco Zorzi, present a staggering range of exciting ways to communicate through letters and words.

Sketchbook pages reveal the designers' creative processes across diverse briefs, concepts, languages ​​and alphabets, from Roman to Cyrillic to Arabic. This rich compendium is aimed at all those who engage creatively with type.

Table of Contents

Introduction • Over 70 alphabetically arranged profiles