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I love lettering! Typography design is a huge passion of mine. Not so much in the technical details, but the flow and visual structure of it. I'm not sure why, but I've always had an affinity for the way the lines move throughout the letters.

 

So, this shot is nothing about photography but rather a great example of old time, classic, decorative lettering and typography.

 

I found this on front of a rusing old wood stove that was behind a building in Gruene, Texas. The soft egg white ceramic background with the light blue just screams history to me, and I loved it. If only it was easy to make lettering like this with a computer these days.

tattoo by Satu @ The Clinic

Lettering for WIRED italia

Started some lettering on the other side... "The Wild One" 130

 

The wild one was not a James Dean movie, but the first real biker outlaw movie, and James was often described as The wild one.. and 130 is self explained, isn't it? :-)

lettering: Jozef Tusan, Stepan Prokop

photography: Barbora Mrackova

design: Stepan Prokop

 

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close up on “Be My Valentine” lettering

 

1923

 

Veta tells her lawyer about the incidents at the insane asylum. She was there to hospitalize her brother Elwood, who has a 1 meter 96 big rabbit as friend. But they thought she is insane, hospitalized her and let her brother go.

 

Part of "res noscenda" / "Empty Padded ~ LeerGefüllt - Time at Work" - Left handed drawings and writings on the empty left pages of my prompter`s book: Soufflierbuch "Mein Freund Harvey" (Mary Chase "Harvey") Page 35

 

Drawing: 16.5., 24.5., 25.5. Photo: DMC-G2 - P1620445 - 2013-05-26

More or less done with the outline and shadowing of the gold leaf on my friends Sportster gas tank..

 

For this one I used House of Kolor "Royal Blue" and "Process Blue". I dont think I´m going to use HOK much more again.. 1-shot enamel is more glossy, more pigment, it flows better, it doesn´t dry as fast and is a little cheaper.. :-)

 

Anyway, now it´s time for my friend Kristian Sabel to add the clear to make the flake pop..

"collecting a jar of hearts"

 

experimenting with letters

 

my blog is: marciabeckett.blogspot.com

Brush lettering with color layering and outlining.

Floor in the Tate Modern in London

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

 

archive.org/details/studio00welo

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

 

archive.org/details/studio00welo

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

 

archive.org/details/studio00welo

Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets

 

archive.org/details/studio00welo

from the book: "Architectural Lettering" by Arthur E. Burke. 1953.

In the Melbert B. Cary Jr. Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology

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