Letters from America: Making Pictures with the A-B-C

Description

America's most famous faces & places in ingenious illustrations made entirely from the letters that spell their name. A brand new collection of Letter Art illustrations by this award-winning illustrator. Every image is a typographic portrait of its subject, created using only the letters of the subject's name. The exact fonts used are provided in a key on each page to make it easier to hunt and find all the letters that spell each image. A great wat to improve letter recognition, spelling, observation and design skills. COLOUR is used to help the reader find the letters, Teachers' Notes offer information about each image.

One of the very first to identify the contemporary rise of Melbourne's cultural and place power, Maree Coote has won The Royal Historical Society of Victoria's Gold Prize for The Art of Being Melbourne. Her unique command of history, culture, art and design is made accessible for a wide variety of audiences, including children. Coote was the first to create a children's picture book for Melbourne kids, When You Go To Melbourne. According to Philip Adams, "Melbourne never had a more ingenious ambassador." Coote's first book The Melbourne Book: A History of Now is in its fourth edition after 12+ years in print, and has been dubbed 'Melbourne's Bible'.

"A fresh tribute to the creative possibilities of letter-form art: stylish and sophisticated." --Kirkus Reviews on Animology "Readers will finish the book both awed and eager to embark on their own typographical experiments." --Publishers Weekly on Spellbound