Typography
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Bons Baisers d'Angleterre / Crombie, John ; Bourne, Sheila., 1991
Fall / Crombie, John., 1984
Red colored text dipicts the outlines of leaves and the piling up of mounds of leaves as the story progresses. Often the color changes within s single letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
I Remember... / Crombie, John., 1991
Lapse and Collapse, 1985
The colored text outlines a brandy glass. As the liquor level decreases, the empty part appears in green. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Rise and Fall / Crombie, John., 1984
This book consists of an erotic story in which part of the text has red type outlining a penile shape rising and falling as the tale proceeds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Rue de la Chaumiere / The Cradle of Montparnasse, 2003
This is the second edition of a book with the same title printed letterpress in 1988. Crombie describes the history of the neighborhood and the artists and writers who lived there. He provides the history of printing by the Kickshaws Press whose shop was initially housed in Montparnasse. The Press was closed in 1994 but Crombie still retains a small shop in another location in Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Some Came to Stay / Crombie, John., 2003
In the preface, Crombie states, "These rhymes were concocted as a pretext for a sequence of fantastical creatures inspired and printed from patterned vinyl wallpaper. " -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
True to Type / Crombie, John., 1989
This is a fictional biography of a man from his birth to age 80 years when he is near death. Several typefaces are employed to simulate the aging process. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.