Deco Type: Stylish Alphabets from the '20s and '30s

by Louise Fili and Steven Heller

This is the book that graphic designers and type aficionados have been waiting for: the first book in Chronicle's Art Deco design series devoted exclusively to type. Garnered from vintage specimen... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811811352
• ISBN13: 9780811811354
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Resource...However,....

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.

An excellent adition to the Chronicle Art Deco series!

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!