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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 [...]

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 [...]

Life According to Thomas Broome

Swedish artist Thomas Broome creates images out of words. Literally. This ongoing project, which he calls Modern Mantra, explores the everyday dimensionality of objects, using the object’s name to give it form. Related Posts The Art of Staples Typewriters and Ribbon Tins Fantastic Universe Book Covers Classic Soul Scramble Very Long Words

Typewriters and Ribbon Tins

Let’s take a moment for the typewriter shall we? Remember those heavy, wonderful machines that would get lugged out when there was something important to write? With those tiny, quick-striking arms holding letters that were just the size for your fingers to explore? The thrill of the line-ending bell, the cool metal of the return [...]

Type Nerds Gone Wild

The moment I discovered the world of hard-core typography was the moment that I unearthed an unrealized dimension of myself. The revelation was a simple, overheard phrase: “Isn’t this descender elegant?” For the uninitiated, a descender is the part of a letter, such as j or q that drops below the baseline, The a-ha moment [...]

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