The letter designs in this collection by Katsumi Tsuji, a graphic designer who was active in the Taisho and Showa periods, appear fresh and new in any age they are seen. Each of the letters in this compilation was hand-drawn. These letter designs, also called lettering, differ from the fonts that are stored as existing data in computers. All of the letter designs, newly created by the graphic designer to match the words and phrases expressed or the particular medium employed, were originally published in 1934 in ‘A Collection of Contemporary Letter Designs’.
340 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 15 cm, pb, Japanese/English


Goodbye - Hsia-Fei Chang, Sofia Eliza Bouratsis, Medhi Brit, Enrico Lunghi
Autodrône - Divine Vizion
The Letter A looks like The Eiffel Tower - Paul Andali
Hobo Nickel - Damien Sauvage
Seoul Flowers & Trees - tribute to Lee Friedlander
Escape - Makiko Minowa
Rupture (fragments) - Benjamin Monti, Jean-Charles Andrieu de Levis
Party Studies – Vol. 2 – Underground clubs, parallel structures and second cultures
The Book Fight - Chihoi
Temps d'arrêt - Etienne Buyse
Heads Together – Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate - David Jacob Kramer
UPO 2 - J'aimerai être là - Xenia Naselou
On-off Tones - Anna Bergquist
Cheat Sheets - Tiger Tateishi
Theatre - Dan Graham
La Typographie Moderne - Robin Kinross 





