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 [...]
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 [...]
Letterpressing

Typography has taken over my life; or at least my week. Starting with last week’s Wordage post about Hatch Show Print, I’ve been immersed daily in letters and type. I’ve been drawing typefaces, working on type-based graphic designs, taking photos of album typography, and writing a column for Is Greater Than called Reconsidering the Ampersand. [...]
Typing Marilyn Monroe

Art made from letters? Set to music? We have just discovered the perfect storm of my creative passions…or at least something that really appeals to a lot of my senses. Created by Martin Missfeldt in two hours, the Marilyn Monroe image illustrates, once again, that creating art is an act of seeing. Here’s a speed [...]

