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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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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 [...]

How to be Alone

I had something else in mind for this week’s Wordage post, but this video—created by by filmmaker Andrea Dorfman and poet/singer/songwriter Tanya Davis—was floating around my social media circle this morning and I loved it. Hope you do too.

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I’m not sure I get the whole stache thing, but I do get typography, and am thoroughly amused that this little poster, created by Tor Weeks, is blowing up online. The type-nerds love it, the hipsters love it, the designers love it…everybody loves it. It’s a total win.
Here’s a link to the full poster: A [...]

Declaration of Human Rights

Reading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is always inspiring, yet a little saddening, knowing that there are so many people in the world who live without the most basic of these rights.
I just checked the Wikipedia entry for the declaration and there is an enormous amount of information about its creation, structure and significance, [...]

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