- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Booth-Clibborn Editions (22 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1873968582
- ISBN-13: 978-1873968581
- Product Dimensions: 29.4 x 21 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 425,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This hugely successful title is a typographic journey through the streets of New York City created by Tomato's Karl Hyde and John Warwicker. Its pages are alive with pulsating masses of numbers, letters and fragments of words. British techno band Underworld collaborated on the project and used it as the basis of their album, dubnobasswithmyheadman.
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inspiring,
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This review is from: mmmâ| skyscraper i love you: A Typographic Journal of New York (Paperback)
Every single page of this book is just bursting with fantastic examples of illustration, typography and graphic design. It inspired me to do a whole project, however mine was nowhere near as good as this book. A definite must...
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This review is from: mmmâ| skyscraper i love you: A Typographic Journal of New York (Paperback)
This project typified the trend in the 1990s for graphic designers to take the "artist" part of commercial artist a little too seriously. The tedious, derivative work that resulted served only to prove Tomato were not very good artists. Undaunted they continue to foist vanity projects unto an uncaring world. Shame, really.
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This review is from: mmmâ| skyscraper i love you: A Typographic Journal of New York (Paperback)
Why is this so hard to find? Because Gingko Press hasn't reprinted it.Why won't they reprint it? Because they never know that we're looking for it. If it's not available, and Amazon isn't going to tell the publisher that this titled is sought after (and believe me, it is), WHY IS IT IN YOUR INVENTORY LIST??? 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: mmmâ| skyscraper i love you: A Typographic Journal of New York (Paperback)
I've had this book for a few years, now. Its curiosity to me stems almost exclusively from its connection to the excellent band Underworld, who share a band member or two with the Tomato group. Underworld fans will inevitably find it a source of fascination, as it visually represents the most important turning point of that band's career (when they switched from focusing on original lyrics to stealing scraps of everyday conversations around them, which are reproduced in this volume and also in the liner notes to their album "Dubnobasswithmyheadman"). Many of the words and images from the book were used in Underworld releases throughout the 1990's. It is impossible for me to remove it from this context. People who are not fans of Underworld will experience it on a different level. It's an oddity; a book that superbly complements two brilliant Underworld albums ("Dubnobasswithmyheadman" and "Second Toughest in the Infants"), but by itself probably falls on its face. The follow-up volume, "Bareback," takes the same concepts to a much higher level, and for Tomato fans is probably a more worthwhile investment.
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Dynamic experience,
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This review is from: mmmâ| skyscraper i love you: A Typographic Journal of New York (Paperback)
This document speaks and shouts volumes.I don't believe that this book will be for everyone, but the designer who is more of an artist, who attempts at perceiving and articulating the world in personal, informative ways.. this is for you. Ok.. the book is a little dated now, but if you want to be inspired to get back to your roots of cutting and pasting, this book will inspire. This is all about taking the environment we live in, and creating dynamic visual experiences that intensify and define that space.. it's really quite brilliant where this came from.. and where they have gone (tomato) speaks volumes about the power of this approach to design. |
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