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Recently got my Animal Picture Holder DOTS set from Lego, decided to have a bit of spelling fun! The tiling was a bit difficult because the plate is 9x17 studs :D
Otra excelente noche de graffiti con mis buenos panas: Boders, Sure, Atem, Harock y Shortek.
Dedicada a OneSak (Caracas).
Av. Las Delicias, Maracay, Venezuela 2012.
Once a bank building, once a place for luxurious restaurants, newspaper, and magazine editorial offices, once a home for the National Library of Latvia. The building was built in 1910 for the needs of the Riga Craftsmen's Credit Union under the design of architect Ernests Pole. Today the Neoclassical building has taken on a new lease of life as an apartment building called the Library House.
Suddenly my bike has a new name. Lettering by Laura Serra. Painted by Elena Albertoni. Laura’s design is inspired by various Chromeography examples, especially the East German motorcycle maker, Simson.
So we thought we'd made a good purchase on a couple of ex-UP SD70s. But considering all the emissions requirements and the extra money they'd cost us to operate yearly, and the fact that the Lake States Railway wanted to do some horse trading, we let the 70s go to them in a trade for a couple SD40s. We put them in service upon arrival, but repainting is far down the list of priorities right now. So I came up with a lettering plan to incorporate into the Lake State's blue and grey paint scheme. This is the result and it should work for a while. We've also had many compliments on the layout so everyone's happy until we can eventually break open the IN black and yellow paint cans.
Couldn't get all the lettering in, but the partial wording on the glass partition / sliding doors spell "Brisbane Powerhouse".
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Illustrations compiled from Neon Signs and Cold-Cathode Lighting, by Samuel C. Miller, Tubelite Co., 2nd Edition, 1963 (1st Edition, 1935). Collection of Letterform Archive.
I assume this to be the most comprehensive technical manual on neon ever published. Subsequent reprints are easy to track down and it makes a great companion to Neon: A Light History, by Dydia DeLyser and Paul Greenstein, which was just released last month.
Mortimer Leach (1906–1975) was one of America’s leading lettering artists, and his work can be found in advertising throughout magazines and newspapers of the 1930s–60s. As an ArtCenter instructor, he taught many career letterers, a legacy that continued through the equally influential Doyald Young, and his Lettering for Advertising (1956) and Letter Design in the Graphic Arts (1960) are some of the best instructional books on the subject. At Letterform Archive we have a small grouping of his original inked boards (including tiny white-out corrections). I think they were some of the first pieces I saw when I visited Rob Saunders before there was an Archive. This week, I identified two originals that were reproduced in Lettering for Advertising: “Lockheed Constellation” and “The Bryson Lectures”.
Progress shot of just the lettering. You can see my other ideas for letters above it. :)
From left to right I used the following Coloris shades:
4501
4508
4517
4509
4502
4506
My wife’s great grandfather’s “Lettering for pen and brush” manual, the cover of which is nearly obliterated with “practice” or possibly “accidents”. I’ll be sure to post a shot of the entire cover in the near future. It’s quite the work of art.
Blythe Physical Challenge - BPC #252 - Renew!
My new year's resolution is to learn how to do modern calligraphy with brush pens. Here you can see Edna with her first Tombow brush pen in black, and if she is good at practicing she will get a whole rainbow of colours!
Lettering I did, cutted out of steel with water! I'ts now for a week on my balcony to let it rust....
Placed in the 29th Annual of Advertising and Editorial Art, 1950. Quite different from the Modernist stuff for which he was later known. Still bold, though.
by Rudolph Wendelin. Scanned at the Forest History Service.
Lauren Hart did some amazing research on the National Forests signage, and found the designer to be Rudolph Wendelin, a graphic artist that popularized Smokey the Bear. At Lauren’s suggestion, I emailed the Forest History Society, and they returned with a scan of the original material. Amazing. Thank you so much Lauren!!