This Is Me, Full Stop.: The Art, Pleasures, and Playfulness of Punctuation

This Is Me, Full Stop.: The Art, Pleasures, and Playfulness of Punctuation

by Caz Hildebrand (Author), Caz Hildebrand (Author), Philip Cowell (Author)

Synopsis

**Winner of a Mobius award for best graphic design book and a Wood Pencil at the D&AD 2018 awards** From the cutting-edge London design agency Here Design - writer and poet Philip Cowell, and award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand, author of The Herbarium, this playful, original, beautifully designed book brings to life the punctuation marks we use every day, including: The dashing dash - So-called quotation marks The colon: and on and on. The shouty exclamation! The three dots of... (Not forgetting the brackets) And even more

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Edition: 01
Publisher: Particular Books
Published: 02 Nov 2017

ISBN 10: 1846149363
ISBN 13: 9781846149368
Book Overview: A playful, original, beautifully designed book about the secret life of the punctuation marks we use every day.

Media Reviews
A fun celebration of how a handful of little marks have been helping us to communicate with each other for hundreds of years - and a reminder that each one is a beguiling piece of design in its own right * Creative Review *
Brings a bit of attitude and fun to the most basic of punctuation marks * Eye Magazine *
Author Bio
Caz Hildebrand (Author) Caz Hildebrand is a founder and Creative Partner at Here Design. She is the award-winning designer of numerous bestselling cookbooks including those by Nigella Lawson, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sam and Sam Clark of Moro. In 2010 Caz created The Geometry of Pasta (Boxtree) with Bocca di Lupo chef, Jacob Kenedy, and more recently Herbarium, a modern-day herbal, and its companion volume, The Grammar of Spice, published by Thames & Hudson. Philip Cowell (Author) Philip Cowell is the author of Keeping A Journal and Stress (Sheldon Press). His writing has appeared in Poetry Review, The Philosophy Shop and BBC Culture. He has run workshops at the Southbank Centre, Wilderness, and Normal? Festival of the Brain, and is an associate of the literature and dementia charity, Living Words.