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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 [...]

Hand-Made Letters

We took a quick road trip down to L.A. this week, and as we drove from one small, rural town to the next, I was acutely aware that I really needed to plan a slow and leisurely photo trip to shoot the awesome typography and old signage that is hanging on by a thread. I [...]

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 [...]

Handwriting and You

Last night one of my co-workers came up to me with a handwritten list of orders and asked if I meant to throw it in the recycling. He said he thought it looked like my handwriting. As we both took a closer look, at the same time, we said, “It’s Mari’s.” Then we had a [...]

Hatch Show Print

“Advertising without posters is like fishing without worms.” —the Hatch Brothers “Preservation through Production” is the motto of one of the oldest print shops in the U.S. For the last 125+ years, the legendary Hatch Show Print, located in Nashville, Tn., has been rolling out posters for everything from musicians, politicians, and circuses to wedding [...]

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