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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 love [...]

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 in each [...]

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 [...]

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.
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Feeling Good Typography

You know how I feel about Nina Simone right? Remember a few weeks ago, the post entitled 10 Things You Should Know About the Extraordinary Nina Simone? If I’ve taken the time to do a 10 Things… post about someone, it means that I really love their music and think that they deserve our respect [...]

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