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from: M. Tolnai, "Letters voor Moderne Reclame-Kunst". 3e verbeterde druk. Amaco, Amsterdam, c. 1941
Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
Sometimes, when I'm using a medium that's hard to control like watercolours, I have to paint a gazillion letters before I get one that I like.
Had the pleasure of guesting on the Drunk on Lettering Podcast this week, hosted by Roxy and Phoebe of San Diego Letters. Had a ton of fun walking through my background studying French and Music, to contracts and weird work stories, as well as the important stuff, like cheese.
Give it a listen!
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from Wm. Hugh Gordon, "Modernized Methods in the Art & Practice of Lettering for Commercial Purposes", 1918.
Yesterday, Mark van Bronkhorst introduced me to this bizarre lettering manual from the 1890s(!). Full of grid-based ideas, some of them insane. There are several other editions published around the turn of the century. You can find crappy contemporary reprints but better to just browse a complete 1912 edition on the Internet Archive.
Preface:
“The formality of a preface may seem scarcely necessary for the supplementing of a system as simple and comprehensible as the one herewith presented.
We have but to divide any surface we may wish to letter into squares (or parallelograms as the case may be), in pencil lines; form the required letters, in ink or paint, and according to the style chosen; erase the pencil lines, and the lettering is complete.”
Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
If you live in Portland I think this guide is out now! I did some lettering for the cover and interiors.
© Jo De Baerdemaeker, Amsterdam (The Netherlands), April 2010
Lettering from Peter Verheul at The University Library of Amsterdam, Bijzondere Collecties (Special Collections).
More info: www.farhill.nl/02_lettering/inuse/other_uvafloor.html
This sign is painted on the back of a glass tile. I found it wrapped up amongst Grandpa's printing equipment with other relics of the Law Stationery business and I guess it directed customers at one of their premises. Maybe he painted it himself?