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Alphabet books

Wednesday 10 April 2002

I have been reading them lately. They don’t have a strong story line, but graphic quality and humour can redeem them. I saw Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich’s Bembo’s zoo: an animal ABC book on the web, and added it to my wish list. In this first book for children, de Cumptich… has created an abecedary of animals made entirely from Bembo letterforms and punctuation marks — nothing else. And you know the conceit works [New York Times].

Images from 'Bembo's zoo' -- ibis, unicorn, quail

As a rule, reading a book on the web is a second-rate experience — a rule broken by this reinvention of Bembo’s zoo for the web.

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