Archive for graphics
documenting…
my type!
Emotional
Understated
Progressive
Disciplined
[?]
Thanks to the brilliant nerds at Pentagram
Images : Pentagram
taking…
a wood typeface break.
“There’s a story to be told in the heart of every piece of wood.”
Jim Sherradan “Hamilton Wood Type : A History in the Headlines”
The bottom image is a type design by Juliet Shen. She developed it with the Tulalip Tribe in Washington State (whom I also had the pleasure of working with long ago when I was @ Mithun) in an effort to help preserve the 500-year-old ‘Lushootseed’ language, which at one point was so close to extinction that it was spoken by only 5 elders. Incredible!
More here.
Images : 1. ffffound 2. heartfish 3. Nick Sherman 4. Hamilton Wood Type
pausing…
to get a little burst of afternoon beauty from the always delicious
and was pleased to be greeted with some the remarkable and haunting work of one of my earliest heroes,
The bottom image is a lithograph that has hung quietly in my mothers home for my entire life.
Exactly.
Images : Rockwell Kent
purchasing…
a beautiful bottle of ROOT while visiting Philly this weekend after a stop at it’s incredibly wonderful natural environment, Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
“In the 1700’s, it was called “Root Tea.” An herbal remedy made with sassafras, sarsaparilla, birch bark and other wild roots and herbs. Native Americans taught the recipe to colonial settlers. As it was passed it down from generation to generation, it grew in potency and complexity. Particularly in the Pennsylvania hinterlands, where the ingredients naturally grow in abundance.” It includes birch bark, smoked black tea, sugarcane, sassafras, wintergreen, spearmint, orange and lemon peel, allspice, anise, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, and nutmeg.
photo courtesy Lovely Package.
returning…
to blog-land after a mini hiatus (more to come about that!) and wanting to record the development of these nyc specimans.
