Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (745 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1510719334 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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A remarkable bridge between the past and present! This book creates a bridge between the past and the present in an amazingly unique way. It exposes a fascinating and heart wrenching chapter in World War II history that wasn’t just forgotten, but for many of us was never known! The story is unveiled through the clues in letters found in an. Captivating from the first page to the last When Carolyn Porter found Marcel's letters - or when they found her - in an antique store in Stillwater, Minnesota, the beautiful penmanship captured her interest. Not because they were from France or from the WWII era, but as the inspiration for a script font she hoped to design. Learning how co. MAC said Marcel bares witness to an often overlooked part of history. What started as an initial search for design inspiration for a typeface project (handwritten letters found in an antique store) evolved into a search for the author (Marcel Heuzé) and the story behind the series of 7"Marcel bares witness to an often overlooked part of history" according to MAC. What started as an initial search for design inspiration for a typeface project (handwritten letters found in an antique store) evolved into a search for the author (Marcel Heuzé) and the story behind the series of 72-year-old hand-written letters he wrote from a forced labor camp near Ber. -year-old hand-written letters he wrote from a forced labor camp near Ber
Marcel’s Letters tells a compelling story of romance, perseverance, and discovery." Professor Kenneth Mouré, historian of modern France, University of Alberta "It's a pleasure to read Porter's romantic dive into the depths of the lost art of letter writing and contained worlds. Porter and Marcel both ask their readers to slow down, look closer, and let passion persist, even if one is alone on a soulful search. Marcel's Letters is an inventive combination of memoir and amateur historical sleuthing. Her story bursts with the excitement of discovery and culminates with the indescribable honor of returning fragments of a forgotten history to the people they were meant for.” Glenn Kurtz, author of Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film "Carolyn Porter takes us on her offbeat quest to solve a t
Simultaneously, she continues to work on what would become the acclaimed P22 Marcel font, immortalizing the man and his letters that waited almost seventy years to be reunited with his family.. She could not read the lettersthey were in Frenchbut she noticed all of them had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to his family in France during the middle of World War II.As Carolyn grappled with designing the font, she decided to have one of Marcel’s letters translated. A graphic designer’s search for inspiration leads to a c