Lettering Large

The "art and design of monumental typography" is the subject and subtitle of Lettering Large, a new book from design educator and prolific author Steven Heller with Mirko Ilić. The typography that jumps off the page and screen ranges in scale from sculptures built from letters and façades etched with words – such as the Palazzo di Vigonovo "Campiello" in Venice, Italy, by 3ndy Studio, pictured here – to phrases cut from or planted in landscapes to be read by satellites. The book's many examples illustrate the blurring of disciplines – typography, graphic design, art, architecture, landscape architecture – that is more and more prevalent today, as the environments we occupy are loaded with ever more information and meaning.