graphic design, art, typography and architecture

How would you go about teaching typography to children? Well, the graphic designer and author Rene Siegfried has published a beautiful solution, a typographic landscape: The Serif Fairy

The Serif Fairy, ‘a clever little letter-fairy’, has lost her left ‘magical’ wing, disabling her ability to fly and to perform magic. She sets off in search of the lost wing, wandering through the Garamond Forest, the Zentenar Gate, the Futura City, and finally to Shelley Lake where, after falling into the water, she finds her lost wing and flies into the air, a revived magic fairy.
Source: Grady Harp

Every illustration in the book comprises type and the author summarises with a description of the four typefaces (Garamond, Zentenar, Futura, and Shelley) he uses throughout the story. Let’s hope that this book inspires graphic designers and authors to create works that introduce graphic design and its related disciplines to a wider audience. If you haven’t already bought the book, you can get a copy from here. If you’ve read the book, then please leave a review.

I can already envisage the sequel to this title, The Sans-Serif Fairy