Designers often look to the past to inform their work, and here design gurus Steven Heller and Louise Fili explore the variety and influence of the world's most ubiquitous typographic style, which dates to prehistoric times and has been used on a range of surfaces from street signs, buildings, and bridges to packaging and posters. Spanning the past two centuries, this expansive sourcebook presents hundreds of international examples of stencil typography, focusing on a broad range of locations and objects—from military, traffic, and transportation to home decoration, mass communication, and street art.