As you all know, I’m a book-lover. I love everything about them –they’re beautiful, mysterious (I have this urge to get to the end of each book!) and most of all, that they have the ability to unlock my mind with a single flip of the page.
And that’s the reason I’m so excited about our giveaway this week – we’re going to give away not one, but TWO books this week, courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press!
Princeton Architectural Press is celebrating their 30th birthday this year and they’re one of my favorite publishers of architectural and design books, so I’m thrilled to have them on the blog today where they’re giving away one book each: Maps by Paula Scher and Typography Sketchbook by Steven Heller and Talarico Lita to two lucky winners!
Throwing your hat in the ring for the giveaway is dead simple: just comment on our post to let us know which book you’d like and why — we’ll pick out the winners after 13th December! Easy peasy!
*UPDATE: Commenting has now closed, thanks so much for participating. The winner of this giveaway is Carmen and Megan as chosen via random.org!
I have to say that map book is calling me. I collect old maps and atlas’s so its fitting. I probably would gift it to my sister as her drawings and embroidery are based on soil maps. Fab giveaway and I hope I can win 🙂
would LOVE to have the Typography Sketchbook by Steven Heller and Talarico Lita. I just saw it (yesterday) for the first time and immediately added it to my wishlist. It is very inspiring to take a peek in a sketchbook to see how ideas start and what will become of them! Would be great to have this book! 🙂
I shit you not, I was planning on buying the typography sketchbook with my next paycheck. This would save me fifty bones.
oh, hard to choose. but I think i’d love to have the typography sketchbook. now I keep my fingers crossed!!
I love maps and diagrams and so am really interested in the map book. Great giveaway.
I love typography so I’m going for Typography Sketchbooks – so much to learn and be inspired by!
I would love to own the maps book. I do workshops with children and have them draw maps.
They both look great, but I’d love the typography sketchbook in particular. So interesting!! ~ Sara
I really wouldn’t mind either book because I’m nutty about both typography and maps!
both books look beautiful, but i think i’d like to have the typography one in my possession. i’ve been exploring fonts and hand-lettering more closely as of late, and it would be wonderful to to learn more!
Maps! I haven’t had the opportunity to look at Schers maps in detail.
would love both, but i must have Typography Sketchbooks. love princeton architectural press!
oh man, I’ve got to go with the gorgeous typography sketchbook
I’ll go with the Typography sketchbook as I have a project based on a lot of text coming up…although I really want BOTH, but it’s not the season to be greedy I guess…
The typography sketchbook!!! No contest! Great giveaway!
I’m a geography student. Maps are the thing I enjoy a lot. I would love to see the “Maps”.
Both of these look fantastic. I’d particularly love the Typography sketch book. Thanks for the opportunity!
Oh, wow. Both of those books are awesome! I’m intrigued by maps old and new as well as those that can show places you thought you knew in very different ways. But I think I’m more partial to the typography. Or the maps. Or the typography. 🙂
I would love either…but the Typography book is definitely my first choice!
Ahhhh…Books.
Two of my favourite things typography and paper what more could a girl ask for?
For the which, I choose the Typography book! As for the why…it’s my birthday this month so this would be a lovely gift, Amy. You are so nice, thank you so much!
heh Kidding ;-D
Seriously though, letters are lovely and I’d like to explore their beauty through this book! *so cheesy
I’d love to be the proud owner of the Typography Sketchbook! Creating title treatments is a very regular occurrence in my day-to-day, and I can never get enough typographic inspiration! I’m not even exaggerating. Not this time.
Wow! The books look cool! Adding your site to my blogroll as well!
The maps of Paula Scher are simply amazing and beautiful. The typography book is would also be a loving piece for my bookshelf!
I would love the Typography book! I’ve been doing a lot of my own hand lettering and it would be great inspiration to see the work and methods of others. Not to mention I spend my days drifting through too many design blogs to count; it would be great to get my fix in a non-digital medium!
I’d love the typography book. Steven Heller is a living legend. This is good inspiration for people to get away from the computer and back to hand-lettering.
To be honest, I’ve had my eye on both of these books since they came out so I’d be delighted with either one. I LOVE Paula Scher’s map paintings but I’m also a fan of hand drawn type and looking at other people’s sketchbooks. But if you were forcing me to choose… I guess I’d pick Typo Graphy Sketch Books.
Whata great little gieaway! I have to go for Typography Sketchbook by Steven Heller and Talarico Lita – I love the idea of getting to a typography designers head 🙂
I’m from Australia hope I can still enter 🙂
I’d love to have the typography book! I’m a huge nerd for all things typography.
Typography Sketchbook please! What a fantastic giveaway… I am obsessed with type.
the Typography Sketchbook!! Type is my art, my favorite art, my favorite pinterest collection 😉
I know you can’t make it too easy, but making us choose between those two is just hard! I choose ….ehm….. Maps! No Typography! No Maps! No Typography…. Ugh…. I choose: Typography please! 🙂 Thank you!
definitely TYPOGRAPHY SKETCHBOOK!
This will be my first typography book,
and i could really use some reinforcement with my work, in that department.
Maps! Love maps! Love Paula Scher!
The Typography Sketchbook! Because… It’s typography! And it makes my fingers tingle and I start to hyperventilate and… Oooooh… NEEEEED this book! 😉
Paula Scher’s Maps. I’m interested in the possibilities inherant in the schematic and abstract qualities of maps with the color and texture of fine art painting.
I think both books are pretty awesome, but I wouldn’t mind the Maps book. I have always been a big map nerd.
i want both! but since i have to choose, maps.
Maps! Because it is an amazing book that my sister would just love for xmas and she deserves it!!
I’m new to your site and so excited by what I see! To top it off, there is this fantastic opportunity. Wow! I think I am most attracted to the Typography Sketchbook, although either would be a wonderful gift. Thanks.
I’d love the typogrpahy one! Great combination of illustration & graphic design!
I would love Maps by Paula Scher!
The typography sketchbook.. but only because it’s just a smidge cooler than the maps.
I would love to have the Maps book! My artwork is map-like and I like to collect books about maps too!
Im dying for that typography book. Ive been trying to find the right part of me to get motivated and really work at making my art do what I want it to do. I think its going to take some inspiration and direction from some outside forces. TYPOGRAPHY BOOK– COME TO ME
I would love the Typography Sketchbook by Steven Heller and Talarico Lita!! wish-listed for sure.
My husband is an over-the-road trucker who travels across the US coast to coast. He uses his GPS now, but used to make use of maps and road atlas’. Even though he is well acquainted with well-traveled routes these days, he would enjoy the ‘Maps’ book by Paula Scher. I’d love to be able to give that to him as a Christmas present.
Yummi “Typography Sketchbook” Two words i’m fond of & They’re in the same title!!
My boyfriend reminds me a lot of a living gps. He loves to drive around all day, espacially on small roads. He is the total opposite of me because I get lost everywhere. But I do love anything creative so I believe the book ‘Maps’ will be a fun present for us both.
yes, easy peesy. I like the Map book!! 🙂 smiles all around.
I have an unhealthy obsession with typography! So……..I need that book!!
I want Maps ! please 🙂
Would have to be the maps book, I work in participatory arts and we are always using art, design, craft, making to connect with communities through their sense of self and this sounds like an inspiring book
Hi! I would love the Typography Sketchbook, because I love looking at sketchbooks and how people form their ideas. Thank you!! 😀
Maps for me please! You can’t beat Paula Scher for some awesome-sauce design-y goodness. 🙂
I would love to have Typography Sketchbook. Its already on my Christmas list! Love love love typography and hand lettering, and looking at others sketch books is always inspiring. Plus, December 13th is my birthday! What a great present!
The Typography Sketchbook just scratched its way into my heart. Words and art make the best couple!
I would really love to have the Typography Sketchbook! Words with wonderful typography etch into my soul! 🙂
i love a great big books 🙂
& a great typos too:)
acabo de terminar mi ultima clase de la carrera de arquitectura y creo que como premio merezco el libro de maps
OMG!!!!! the moment i read the first line…I thought.. what if they were giving a typography book…i scroll down…and 🙂 🙂
i would very much like the delightful typography sketchbook – pretty please?! i am obsessed with how beautiful type can enhance beautiful grammar and this book would fuel this obsession even more!
I’m crazy about maps, I would love, love, love to win that Map book, it would be like Christmas…oh wait….it would be like having two Christmases!
Oh ! Typographyyyy! 😀
I love typography! Great books and great giveaway!
I think both books would be interesting but im going to have to go with Maps. my reason being that i love the detail that maps possess, how they guide us, how they have everything planned out.
typography please!!
im a graphic design student and any inspiration is good inspiration! i also love books and i am trying to expand my library
Maps are glorious things.
Dear Santa, I would dearly like the Maps book so I can find my way, x d*
Typography Sketchbooks would make a great Xmas gift! 🙂 Pleaaaase
Wow, you managed to hit both of my twin obsessions! I’d be absolutely delighted with either of these. But if I had to choose… gah. If I HAD to, I guess I’d choose. Hm. Typography.
I would love love love to have the Typography sketchbook! Now my fingers crossed! Thanks for the opportunity.
I’d love both, but I’d so like to get Typography Sketchbooks for my boyfriend who really enjoys typography and is SO good at i!
MAPS! Nothing better than combining maps and fine typography.
Maps were the first info-graphics of sorts that people used to find their way around. If I do win, this would be the first giveaway I’ve ever won!
as a former copyeditor, i love books… but i LOVE books about typography!! sigh
pleeeease put my name in the hat 🙂
My dad gave me copies of Uppercase & Lowercase when I was growing up and have always had an affinity for hand lettered type. I’ve studied it extensively and use it in my artwork all the time. If I wasn’t able to win the typography book I am going to have to pick up a third job to be able to afford it. Thank you for making a website dedicated to artists and illustrators of all types. I am inspired weekly by your posts!
i love the touch of paper and the smell of ink of a typographic sketch book.
Both of these look fab but if I had to choose….I would love the typography book 🙂
Can I still enter? I WANT the typography book so much! : )
I love both books but hoping I can win the typography one 😉 thanks for the chance!
i’d love the typography book because i love typography. simple as that.
I would like the typography sketchbook. I am an illustration student,
I used to do oil paintings and ink drawings. But this semester, I met a lot of people from graphic design area, I realized how important it is to bring design to my work as an illustrator. And among all the directions, I am interested in typography most.
I think this book will be a great help.
The Typography book is awesome! I’ve had my eye on it for a while and sketchbooks are great to have on hand to see a project from inspiration to completion!
I’d enter for the Type book, it will be a nice addition of material for teaching type design here in Colombia.
good luck to all!
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