Lettering & Calligraphy

Modern Western calligraphy has seldom been recognized as an art form. Correcting this oversight, Jerry Kelly presents major examples of calligraphi...

John Castagno's Artists' Signatures and Monograms have become the standard reference source for galleries, museums, libraries, and collectors aroun...

Despite the invention of the printing press and the advent of the personal computer, calligraphy continues to thrive as an art form. The process of...

Brush pens are perfect for creating stylized lettering!Hand lettering adds a personal touch to everything you make, and now you do not need to have...

For some time in the distant past, hand-lettering used to be a highly-regarded skill to master and was ubiquitous via publications and public signa...

Purposeful choice in lettering can help convey meaning beyond just the written words. Letters can be made with straight lines, curvy lines, be wild...

'Lyrical and engrossing . . . bursting with humour' - Entertainment WeeklyThe thing is, the letters don't always tell me truths about myself. Somet...

For 1,300 years, Chinese calligraphy was based on the elegant art of Wang Xizhi (A.D. 303–361). But the seventeenth-century emergence of a style mo...

Chiang Yee’s Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique remains the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In eleven...

This book rediscovers an important contribution to a popular field of graphicdesign and suggests that Ismar David's calligraphicbookjacketspresent ...

A companion to the prize-winning exhibition catalogue "Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe", edited ...

In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, "Receptacle of the Sacred" explores how and why th...

Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books - like today's museums - preserve a rich array of information about how premodern people...

Shu pu, completed in 687, and Xu shu pu, written in 1208, are outstanding among early treatises on calligraphy. Chang Ch'ung-ho and Hans H. Frankel...

Chinese characters are one of the most fascinating aspects of the language and occupy a prominent place in Chinese culture. Good handwriting is als...

Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy is a classic play from Japan's golden age of puppet theater. Written in the eighteenth century, it tells th...

Introduction to the use of runes as a practical script for a variety of purposes in Anglo-Saxon England. Runes are quite frequently mentioned in m...

An inspirational workbook for complete beginners to discover and master the art of the nib.Kirsten Burke's Secrets of Modern Calligraphy is a uniqu...

Arabic script remains one of the most widely employed writing systems in the world, for Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. Focusing on naskh—th...

An easy-to-follow guide to learning the art of calligraphy, with 25 gorgeously photographed projects that use calligraphy to make beautiful gifts a...