Using Hart’s Rules for Compositors and Readers, writer and poet Philip Cowell and award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand, co-founder of the influential design agency, Here Design, embark upon a bold, typographic journey through punctuation. Exploring the pleasures, playfulness and even the philosophy of punctuation, each chapter deals with one of the major punctuation points from ellipses through brackets until the full stop.

Filled with historical typefaces relating to each mark, THIS IS ME , FULL STOP is a beautifully produced, design-led book about punctuation rules and misrules to help readers look afresh at their sentence furniture. It’s full of tone and personality with the exclamation mark claiming the status of ‘the selfie of grammar’ or commas regarding themselves as ‘ full stops in a wind machine’.

 

Caz Hildebrand is also the author of The Herbarium (‘exquisite and inspirational’ Nigella Lawson) and co-author of The Geometry of Pasta (‘an instant classic’ Publishers Weekly, starred review). Here Design are responsible for some of the most cutting edge designs for everything from brands to bars to bakeries and from books to bottles and boxes. Clients include Adidas, Bacardi and V&A and on the book side Yotam Ottolenghi and Nigella Lawson. They are currently working with Monotype, the font and technology specialists.