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"A playful, original, beautifully designed book about the secret life of the punctuation marks we use every day Introducing- The dashing dash - So-called ""quotation marks"" The colon- and on and on. The shouty exclamation! The three dots of... (Not forgetting the brackets) And many more. Take a witty and typographical journey through the art, pleasures and playfulness of the punctuation marks we use every day."

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Author:   Caz Hildebrand ,  Philip Cowell
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Particular Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 16.50cm
Weight:   0.389kg
ISBN:  

9781846149368

ISBN 10:   1846149363
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   02 November 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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A fun celebration of how a handful of little marks have been helping us to communicate with each other for hundreds of years - and a reminder that each one is a beguiling piece of design in its own right * Creative Review *

A fun celebration of how a handful of little marks have been helping us to communicate with each other for hundreds of years - and a reminder that each one is a beguiling piece of design in its own right * Creative Review * Brings a bit of attitude and fun to the most basic of punctuation marks * Eye Magazine *

Author Information

Caz Hildebrand (Author) Caz Hildebrand is a founder and Creative Partner at Here Design. She is the award-winning designer of numerous bestselling cookbooks including those by Nigella Lawson, Yotam Ottolenghi and Sam and Sam Clark of Moro. In 2010 Caz created The Geometry of Pasta (Boxtree) with Bocca di Lupo chef, Jacob Kenedy, and more recently Herbarium, a modern-day herbal, and its companion volume, The Grammar of Spice, published by Thames & Hudson. Philip Cowell (Author) Philip Cowell is the author of Keeping A Journal and Stress (Sheldon Press). His writing has appeared in Poetry Review, The Philosophy Shop and BBC Culture. He has run workshops at the Southbank Centre, Wilderness, and Normal? Festival of the Brain, and is an associate of the literature and dementia charity, Living Words.

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