My first selection was from Shelf 33, and is titled Letterscapes: A Global Survey of Typographic Installations. It has 351 pages (many of which are photos and drawings, I admit) and I read it in three sessions over six days.
I really enjoyed it. It features many different works of public art composed of typography, most of which are in the western alphabet (though there was one in a Korean script, one in enormous Braille, and a few other exceptions). There is a summary that accompanies each piece, and at the end of the book there are a number of interviews with the artists about their works that were featured in the book.
An unexpected fact I learned from this book is the origin of the name of Times Square in New York. It came to be known as that because of the location of the New York Times office, adjacent to Times Square. I never even thought about it.
