La lettre et l’image

The image is the common language of humankind. But from the cave where prehistoric man traced image-signs to today, where the letter—invading streets, shops, objects, even works of art—is once again becoming an image, we have traveled an astonishing back-and-forth: from the image to the abstraction of the letter, then, after five centuries of printing, from the letter to the image . . . hold up. We have no idea what any of that means. Here’s what we know: This book is packed with illustrations highlighting writing and letters that push every limit in an effort to be expressive, communicative, and human. There are things to steal and inspire in these pages.