This Is Me, Period.: The Art, Pleasures, and Playfulness of Punctuation (Hardcover)
The elements of style like you've never seen them before
Explore the personalities of the punctuation marks we use every day with this bold, typographic journey through grammar. Each chapter in This is Me, Period introduces one of the major pieces of punctuation and all of its idiosyncracies, including:
The dashing em dash—
So-called "quotation marks"
The colon: and on and on
The shouty exclamation!
The three dots of . . .
(Don't forget the brackets)
And even more
As charming as it is educational, This is Me, Period helps you understand sentence structure in a novel way that keeps you turning the pages for more.
Explore the personalities of the punctuation marks we use every day with this bold, typographic journey through grammar. Each chapter in This is Me, Period introduces one of the major pieces of punctuation and all of its idiosyncracies, including:
The dashing em dash—
So-called "quotation marks"
The colon: and on and on
The shouty exclamation!
The three dots of . . .
(Don't forget the brackets)
And even more
As charming as it is educational, This is Me, Period helps you understand sentence structure in a novel way that keeps you turning the pages for more.
CAZ HILDEBRAND is a founder and Creative Partner at the cutting-edge London design agency Here Design. The co-author of The Geometry of Pasta and author of Herbarium, she is the award-winning designer of numerous bestselling cookbooks including those by Nigella Lawson and Yotam Ottolenghi.
PHILIP COWELL is a poet and writer at Here Design and the author of Keeping A Journal. An associate of the literature and dementia charity Living Words, his writing has appeared in Poetry Review, The Philosophy Shop, and BBC Culture.
PHILIP COWELL is a poet and writer at Here Design and the author of Keeping A Journal. An associate of the literature and dementia charity Living Words, his writing has appeared in Poetry Review, The Philosophy Shop, and BBC Culture.