I have a guilty secret. I am now, and have been for the last 5 years, a fully paid up member of the Pet Shop Boys fan club. I am, as my 2006 fanclub t-shirt states, a Pethead. And this book is one of my most treasured possessions.

Catalogue is exactly that: a definitive, visual retrospective cataloguing everything my favourite band have ever done. Literally EVERYTHING…

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If someone said to me that I can use my phone to help me with my typography… I’d have assumed they were referring to the ability to call up a friend who was a typographer or who has a great deal of experience in crafting type.

What they’d really mean is that I could download the Typography App for the IPhone, which has has several useful features and resources for designers, including a visual type anatomy glossary, a font size ruler, an em calculator, and enough content to fill a 60-page book.

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