Alphabetical Playground

Please note: This is a pre-order only, the book gets shipped once published in September 2025.

Following the success of Letterform Variations, Nigel Cottier presents a study into the alphabet as medium in his new book Alphabetical Playground. From this has emerged a catalogue of numerous alphabets and letterforms (estimated at around 7,000 unique letterforms), all created using a series of systems, codes and themes to generate expression and form within the confines of the alphabetic code. With a theme or system for each letter of the alphabet, the book is an exploration into systems within systems, a code within a code.

From this has emerged a catalogue of numerous alphabets and letterforms (estimated at around 7,000 unique letterforms), all created using a series of systems, codes and themes to generate expression and form within the confines of the alphabetic code.

Alphabetic Playground—an alphabetical system where each letterform can contain multiple letters within it, so a single piece of text can in fact contain multiple messages.