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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 [...]

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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