Helvetica; Homage To A Typeface
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- stimuli
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Anyone bought this book? And have you split the perforated pages to see the rest of the content? I want to but it's such a nice tidy and compact book that I don't want to spoil it. What would you do?
- unknown0
split some of mine
- mrming0
I split mine carefully with a ruler - after mush deliberation.
Just go for it - it's meant to be that way. Buy another copy if you want to keep one in original condition.
Marvellous book by the way. Really opened my eyes to what you could achieve typographically with a single family.
- stimuli0
Just seems weird that half of the book is hidden until you split the pages. Is it hard to flick through when they are split? Seems to me like the perforations would drive me nuts...
- mrming0
It's really clever and a nice touch IMHO - two books in one!
- unknown0
stop being so precious!
- stimuli0
I suppose. It's just that I've got a crap track-record with perforations – it's the reason I don't use my chequebook. Oh well, got to do it sometime. Wish me luck!
- mitsu0
hehe, that's a nifty inventory control trick for those that buy books, only to later decide they should've spent their hard-earned money on somfin else. hard to return a book that's been obviously used.
- stimuli0
Never thought of it like that, that's quite sneaky.
- lee_b0
had a special edition Bathing Ape book with work by Wing Shya. The pages were joined like that but without even perforations! took me about a week before i decided to get the scapel to it, or was it a steel rule???
doesn't bother me anymore
- sephil0
split it... you bought it to get the visual.
- halfnoise0
i dont own the book yet, but i definitely like the pages like that.. Mined magazine is similar. brings the idea of really interacting with the content, resisting the view of reading as passive.
- Gorbie0
Any word on an Arial edition?
- unknown0
Buy it here...
- unknown0
Anyone ever used the associates feature in Amazon? Have you made much money out of it?