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LA Type Founders Catalog, 1965

By The Letter—By The Line—By The Pound—By The Font Another artifact from the old letterpress shop: a 1965 hot metal and wood type catalog from Los Angeles Type Founders. This is around the time that...

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PreTint Business Cards

Here’s an artifact from the transitional era (and my dad’s old letterpress shop) when offset printing was encroaching on the remaining territorial outposts of letterpress—in this case, the humble...

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SPQR

A few quick impressions of various typographic expressions of Senatus Populusque Romanus, and a shard from the Forum site, snapped while walking around Rome.

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Rock Paper Scissors (expanded rules)

A little playing around with the pointing-pixel-hand cursor turned into an infographic exercise based on the venerable game of Rock Paper Scissors. The concept developed as the variations started to...

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SX-70 Polaroids

A few years ago, The Impossible Project revived the manufacturing of film packs for the venerable Polaroid SX-70. While visiting Heather in New York, I picked some up some TZ Artistic film at the...

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1930s Typographic Flash Cards

“A Scientific and Delightfully Interesting Way to Learn and Remember the Important Type Faces Frequently Found in Modern Printing” —box copy Ralph W. Polk was an educator in the field of printing back...

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