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Jessica Hische on Letterpress

Jessica Hische is a constant source of typographic inspiration for me and about a million other people around the world. Here she is discussing the refreshing, tactile beauty of letterpress.
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The Stop-Motion Mastery of PES

If you’ve already seen the short films of PES, you know you’re in for something special when you see his name. If you haven’t, you’re about to meet one of your new favorite stop-motion artists.
Sit back and enjoy the outstanding creativity and production of the amazingly talented PES. Then go check out his other projects. [...]

Comic Book Nerds Take to the Streets

I was recently alerted to the fact that tomorrow, August 28, is the first annual International Read Comics in Public Day. Apparently this exercise in visibility came about when one of the creators of the event said that he reads novels on trains because he is too embarrassed to read comics. A bit of brainstorming, [...]

Vulture Crash #1

Vulture Crash:Culture Out of Context
by Grip Grand (aka Gabe Winogrond)

I bought this chewing gum at one of my local shops. It’s made by Lotte, which I believe is a Korean company. I could look into it further, but as I’ve said before, what kind of blog would this be if I did research?
The gum is [...]

Alphabattle

For the last month or so, I’ve been contributing to Lettercult’s Alphabattle. What’s an Alphabattle you ask? Well, this is my first one, so I’m not sure how they all go down, but it’s more like an AlphaShowAndTell, where we all make the same letter (we’re currently on M) and then post them online and [...]

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