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You get the impression that Mike Perry puts on the best parties as he seems to know some of the most refreshingly exciting artists working in the creative industry. Hand Job is like a big party of bright colours, doodlers extravagance and mind blowing inspiration and alternative approaches to typography. The first book in a triolgy ( Over & Over, and Pulled being the further two),  Hand Job suceeded at setting new standards for creative publishing. Diverse in its lay out and a pleasure to flick through it sets an atmosphere that many 'showcase' books don't - it takes you into the world of illustrators and designers and gives you an insight into working process and sketchbooks and studio environments and most of all its just really fun and light hearted - an ideal element that all approaches to work should entail.

'In this digital age of computer-generated graphics and typography it's refreshing to see a small subset of typographers who still believe in working by hand, and as the popularity of hand-drawn type continiues to grow it is now time to explore and celebrate the work of those typographers whose every letter is a work of art. Handjob collects an incredible universe of hand rawn typography exploring thework of fify five typographers and graphic designers who are making new strides by the originality of their work and the popularity of their clients.'

 Profiling artists such as Kindra Murphy, Sagmiester, Stefan Marx, Damien Correll, Mario Hugo, Adam Hayes and Jim the Illustrator.  

Publication, Illustration, Design

Posted by — Aurelia Lange

November 2011