Self-Portrait as Your Traitor by Debbie Millman is a collection of illustrated essays and poems featuring her own hand-lettered and mixed-media typography.

“Debbie Millman combines insights about design and everyday life with obsessive hand-drawn typography to create a new form of visual poetry, a 21st-century illuminated manuscript. That is, each piece of lettering seems to have been created to express the exact emotional subject matter at hand. A designer knows how to do this: to manipulate the visual components in order to evoke the appropriate feeling. It is a planned act. But a fine artist does it for herself, spontaneously, without a client or a brief. Debbie’s elaborate doodles have more in common with Ed Fella’s work than with editorial design. These drawings are communication from the heart. And they are the bravest, rawest, and most honest form of communication there can be. “