{"product_id":"alphabetical-playground","title":"Alphabetical Playground","description":"\u003cp\u003eDriven by a fascination with the alphabet as a vessel for unlimited visual concepts, systems and languages, Alphabetical Playground explores a wide range of themes concerning expression in text. It presents a series of graphic experiments that investigate and manipulate the building blocks of language. Beginning as a series of ongoing variable type experiments, unused project concepts and playful takes on existing letterform typologies, the book is an attempt to consolidate these varying ideas into a playful collection of Alphabets, a showcase of how far we can push the medium of type design and structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUltimately—although it may not always be immediately apparent—everything on these pages is language. This work demonstrates how text allows us to embed our thoughts, beliefs and systems within it: a code within a code, a game within a game, a system within a system. It serves as a reminder of the alphabet’s enormous potential to transcend its fundamental purpose as a tool for communication and instead become a limitless space for creative expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNigel Cottier's new book of experimental type ideas is an investigation into how we can use the Alphabet as a container for countless graphic systems, conceptual ideas, and endless play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword from Hamish Muir, Alphabetical Playground is Nigel Cottier’s second book on experimental type after Letterform Variations, released in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages: 696\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 155 x 200 mm\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Softcover\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Slanted Publishers\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slanted Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41767528267861,"sku":"SPAP1631","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0491\/5749\/files\/1_04ebbecb-c384-4349-a4e5-b62c471c684a.jpg?v=1760692823","url":"https:\/\/www.northeastshop.com\/en\/products\/alphabetical-playground","provider":"North East","version":"1.0","type":"link"}