Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape
Two volumes of paper engineering, with pulleys and pop-ups that demonstrate how each letter reached its present shape rather than merely describing the process.
A two-volume paper-engineered account of how each letter of the alphabet arrived at its form, built from pulleys, accordions and pop-ups that demonstrate the mechanics rather than describing them. Years of prototyping went into it, and it works as an object as much as a book.
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Maria Popova
Kelli Anderson, maker of material magic, brings that layered history to life in Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape — a large-format two-volume marvel, many years and myriad prototypes in the making, full of paper pulleys and accordion delights that illustrate the biography of each letter.
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