Craftside: Modern Progress West, an altered book featured in the book Type Form & Function

Modern Progress West, an altered book featured in the book Type Form & Function

This beautiful altered book featured in Type Form & Function: A Handbook on the Fundamentals of Typography is titled "Modern Progress West" by Brian Dettmer. Brian's work can be considered décollage, which is a new word to me. According to ye old Wikipedia:

Décollage, in art, is the opposite of collage; instead of an image being built up of all or parts of existing images, it is created by cutting, tearing away or otherwise removing, pieces of an original image. Examples include inimage or etrécissements and excavations. A similar technique is the lacerated poster, a poster in which one has been placed over another or others, and the top poster or posters have been ripped, revealing to a greater or lesser degree the poster or posters underneath.

Don't you just love seeing cool things and learning new words? Do you also get the irony here that the new word is the word that is used in the cutting up of words???? My head is hurting in a good way with this revelation.

More about the book that I don't plan to cut up:

Type Form & Function:
A Handbook on the Fundamentals of Typography

Jason Tselentis

This is a comprehensive typography resource that both students and professional designers should have in their library. It looks at the influences of modern typography and symbols going back through time and examines certain type treatments and movements in design and logo types. It also focuses on how type works and emphasizes typographic fundamentals, while touching on logo/logotype design and page layout (print and interactive).

Jason Tselentis is a designer, writer, and educator living in North Carolina. He has completed print and interactive design for: Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum; Henry Art Museum; Intel Labs; the National Park Service; Sony BMG Music; Continental Tires; and 20th Century Fox. As Assistant Professor at Winthrop University’s Department of Design, Jason teaches graphic design and typography. His work has been recognized by the AIGA and HOW magazine. To see more of his work, visit www.morsa.com.