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Summary: Who decided to make this a novel?
Review: "Univers Revealed" is the "story" of how a designer named Ji Lee created a new typeface. That's right, it's a story about a font. Not multiple fonts or the history of the font, but a single font.Ji Lee created his font by modifying the traditional font Univers, by spinning each capital letter 360 degrees around a vertical axis. That's it. There's everything that the book contains right there, sans the pictures of the font, which take up the majority of the book at a whopping 64 pages long. "Univers Revealed" would be better fitted for a 1 page article than an entire book.
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Summary: Who decided to make this a novel?
Review: "Univers Revealed" is the "story" of how a designer named Ji Lee created a new typeface. That's right, it's a story about a font. Not multiple fonts or the history of the font, but a single font. Ji Lee created his font by modifying the traditional font Univers, by spinning each capital letter 360 degrees around a vertical axis. That's it. There's everything that the book contains right there, sans the pictures of the font, which take up the majority of the book at a whopping 64 pages long. "Univers Revealed" would be better fitted for a 1 page article than an entire book.
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Summary: Mind-bending!
Review: I just got the book. It is one of the most fascinating books I have ever seen. It's beautiful, mysterious, fun, challenging, thought-provoking and revolutionary.
A mind-bending and playful puzzle exploring our language, symbols and mind. I was so impressed by it that I'm buying several copies for my friends. Highly recommended!
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Summary: who wants a novel if you can read the world?
Review: this is not a book about a font, this is a book about playing with your mind, letting your mind play, and minding about the play. As many genious ideas, the principle is simple and clean: transporting something known into something yet to discover by shifting views 360 degrees, opening a 2D planar text into a 3D full and round context.
As you might have noticed, I ADORE this book, I find it inspiring, playful, joyful and thrilling - basically all I expect of life...very comforting to know it's in a book at least ;). Thanks!
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