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Drawing Money by Hand

Xavi Garcia wanted to make a point about how much time and energy artisans put into their crafts, and how valuable hand-crafted creations are. His project, “Handmade” is a breathtakingly detailed, hand-drawn banknote (of sorts) that brings attention to the fact that time is a valuable resource, and that human creativity is something that holds [...]

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. Related Posts Hand-Made Letters Handwriting and You Alphabet City Books and their Covers See, I Told You Typography was Cool

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, [...]

Alphabet City

Welcome to Alphabet City, a design/architecture/typography project created by Scott Teplin. His idea was to create dream homes based on the 26 figures of our alphabet. Here’s a blurb from the Alphabet City website: From the head and hand of master draftsman Scott Teplin comes a series of 26 dream-houses fashioned after our alphabet. Explore [...]

Pencil vs. Camera by Ben Heine

Ben Heine, a Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer, currently living and working in Brussels, has an ongoing project that he calls Pencil vs. Camera. The idea is to fill in portions of landscapes, portraits, street-scenes or whatever else he’s in the mood for, with pencil drawings that at times reflect the original subject, [...]

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