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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> The advent of digital technologies is making handwriting as a social skill largely redundant The amount we write every day has decreased sharply students type their notes on computers application forms require printed writing or block capitals and even signatures are increasingly being replaced by electronic signatures. Typing itself may soon be obsolete as speech recognition software becomes more advanced. However freed from the constraints of commerce and necessity calligraphy has become an artform in its own right like printmaking o drawing. Contemporary calligraphers explore limitless design capabilities of letterforms as w as their traditional use for creating documents and communicating ideas. ne This book will teach you to appreciate or rediscover the beauty of the handwritten wor As you progress through the exercises in this book the scripts will subtly adapt to your own handwriting and become truly your own. Practising calligraphy will change your way not only of writing but also of seeing. You will become aware of the different styles of letterforms that surround us and become more diocerning about which forms work and which don’t. I have seen many students change the way they feel about words as a consequence of learning calligraphy. (LL)