Many thanks to Dawn Bevin at UK Handmade for her generous review of Draw Your Own Fonts, which you can read here.

Thanks to Evelyn Lee at complex.com for her generous review of the US edition of Draw Your Own Fonts, which carries the alternative title of Draw Your Own Alphabets. You can read it here.

Many thanks to John Clifford for his review of my latest book Draw Your Own Fonts which you can read here.

The book is published by Ivy Press in the UK and by Princeton Architectural Press in the US.

There’s an excellent review of Geometry of Type (Anatomy of Type in the US) here.

Thanks for the kind words Joel!

You can also read some comments about the book on Stephen Coles’ site here.

Typography Referenced, a project I was fortunate to be involved with in 2011/2012 as one of the co-authors, has been included in the 2013 Outstanding Reference Sources List, an annual handpicked list from the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA, a division of the American Library Association) of the most noteworthy reference titles published in 2012.

The Outstanding Reference Sources Committee recommends the most outstanding reference publications for small and medium sized public and academic libraries, and the selected titles are highly recommended for inclusion in any library’s collection. What’s more, Typography Referenced is one of only eleven books selected across all subject categories. Well done Rockport and well done to all my fellow authors on the project.

The PLC for the UK edition of the book

Could be just for one day, but the Anatomy of Type (Geometry of Type in the UK) is the number 1 best selling typography book on Amazon’s US site this week!

I’m pretty pleased with that. Hopefully the same will go for the UK edition when it publishes in January 2013.

I’ve been writing Photoshop tutorials and features for Digital Photography Enthusiast magazine for a while now, and I’ve decided (with the kind permission of the magazine) to post one or two of them on the site. Check my portfolio section to find out how you can ‘flood’ a street using a displacement map to create the realistic water effect shown in the featured image.

The UK edition of The Geometry of Type

I recently completed the design and layout of a great new title for Quid Publishing – The Geometry of Type. The book is due for publication in the UK by Thames & Hudson in January 2013, and in the US by Harper Design a little earlier in November 2012 where it will be titled The Anatomy of Type.

A typical spread from the book.

As well as the creation of the initial presentation, and the subsequent design of the published book, I worked directly with author Stephen Coles and project managed the supply of all content including text and annotation. This proved to be a fortuitous move, considering the complexity of the content involved, and annotation was supplied and updated on a continuous basis throughout the design process using a Google spreadsheet.