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3 reviews
William Reid, Robert Bringhurst

Univ of Washington Pr, 1988

A Haida legend primer
I brought this book on a trip to Vancouver and Victoria and read it in the evenings after returning to my hotels. As a European American, I found it indispensable to understanding much of the art I saw on vacation (especially Totem Poles). This book relates many of the best known Haida stories, including those of the noble, tragic Bear; the intrepid, versatile human fisherman-hunter Nanasigmit ...

The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design

7 reviews
Jan Tschichold

Hartley & Marks, 1991

A must read for any designer.
This collection of 23 essays on book design and typography should be read at least once by all typographers and students of design. Written over a period spanning 42 years, these essays cover many aspects of typography from paper color to tight typesetting to page proportions. A few of the ideas presented in the essays may indeed be outdated now (due mainly to the economic freedoms in modern ...

The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning

2 reviews
Robert Bringhurst

Gaspereau Press, 2004

A new way of thinking typeforms
The Solid Form of Language, helps me to know about how connected is the way we write with the way we think. How connected are the social, religious and political issues with the graphic way of our language. Typography is not only the visible form of our words, but the way "someone" decided how we have to articulate the sound of our thoughts and desires. It is an excellent research of the history ...

Elements of Typographic Style

84 reviews
Robert Bringhurst

Diane Pub Co, 2000

Best book on Type ever!
This was my first book on typography - nothing I've read since has come even close! Very much recommended.

Nine Visits to the Mythworld

1 review
Gandhi of the Qayahl Llaanas

Douglas & McIntyre,Canada, 2001

Spooky and profound
Robert Bringhurst devoted separate volumes to two great poets, Skaay (I'll leave out the lineage name) and Ghandl. Of the two, Ghandl is the easier. His poems are short, focused, intense and memorable. They're often eerie like nightfall on the water. But they're far more than entertainment. Like all real myths, they point to things that can't be stated outright; they teach us ways of finding ...

The Tree of Meaning: Thirteen Lectures

1 review
Robert Bringhurst

Gaspereau Pr, 2007

Beautiful in Form and Content
"The Tree of Meaning" ranks among the most beautiful, as well as meaningful, books I have ever read---and I read a LOT! For anyone with interest in Bringhurst's main themes, this book will delight and inform. His main themes are the connection, i.e. the "oneness" of what we call "nature" and what we call "culture"; the intimate interdependency of language and nature; the nature and purpose of ...

A Short History of the Printed Word

5 reviews
Warren Chappell, Robert Bringhurst

Hartley and Marks Publishers, 2000

Best intro to the history of printing
Chappell and Bringhurst have put together an informative, enjoyable book on printed text. It starts with a brief history of writing in general, then of the Roman alphabet now used for most European languages. Along the way, we see a few hints about the history of page layout and other typographic concerns. The book devotes a few pages to the skilled craft of punch-cutting, of carving the steel ...

Being in Being : The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller (Skaay of the Qquuna

1 review

University of Nebraska Press, 2002

The next best thing to a seat near the fire
All of Robert Bringhurst's translations of Haida myth are essential reading. None is more strange, beautiful, majestic, nasty, and comprehensive than this third volume, which contains brilliant translations of two vast epics by Skaay, the most impressive of the mythtellers whose Haida was transcribed as well as translated by an anthropologist at the turn of the last century. Skaay was a ...

Spit Delaney's Island: Selected Stories (New Canadian Library)

1 review
Jack Hodgins

New Canadian Library, 1992

Jack Hodgins' Island
Okay, first off, I stole the title of my review. It was the title of a piece that Canada's National Film Board made about Jack Hodgins and his work, particularly Spit Delaney's Island. One of the most important measures of a book is whether you understand and care about the characters. By the time you finish Spit Delaney's Island, you will feel like you know the folks who inhabit the stories, ...

A story as sharp as a knife: The classical Haida mythtellers and their world

2 reviews
Robert Bringhurst

Douglas & McIntyre, 1999

The first volume in an essential series
There's no reason to withhold the fifth star! The poet, linguist, and typographer Robert Bringhurst worked from transcriptions of Haida myths recorded at the beginning of the twentieth century, and allows those of us who don't speak Haida a chance to sit and listen to some of that nation's great mythtellers. We can never recover what it was like for their compatriots to hear these poems, but the ...

The Beauty of the Weapons
Robert Bringhurst

Copper Canyon Press, 1985

BLACK CANOE: BILL REID AND THE SPIRIT OF HAIDA GWAII

1 review
Robert Bringhurst

Douglas & McIntyre, 1995

A fascinating account of the making of a masterpiece.
Anyone who knows and loves the work of Haida artist, Bill Reid, will be fascinated by this behind-the-scenes account of the modelling and casting of 'Spirit of Haida Gwai'. Modelled first in clay, then cast in sections into bronze, the completed work is an enormous canoe full of figures from the mythology of the Haida Indians of the Northwest Coast of North America. The figures of the Eagle, the ...

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