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Documenting interesting examples of typography.

Madrid Castizo & lettering

from M Parker's library: "look at the rich blacks!" esteemed as the most gorgeously printed book ever (poorly photographed here), from post war Germany. Zapf did all lettering. i've forgotten the punch cutter's name. bad form.

Distinctive lettering at Crown Island.

 

Google Street View

from M Parker's library: "look at the rich blacks!" esteemed as the most gorgeously printed book ever (poorly photographed here), from post war Germany. Zapf did all lettering. i've forgotten the punch cutter's name. bad form.

Truck lettering done in Chrone & Black 3M lettering. www.richmondsigns.com

2 day Typography & Lettering workshop taught by Nomad Ink at Positivo University 2009.

My lettering for Mercedes ad is published in april issues of GQ, Esquire and Forbes magazines (Russia's edition).

Dimensional Letters Custom cut and painted. These letters are cut from 2" thick high density ultraplus foam and painted for a brilliant finish!

Next comes lettering, which can be an entire demo in and of itself. I don't use a font. (Why I don't use a "Larry Marder font" is a long story and borderline rediculous as one exists already).

Anyway. this is the method I made up a few years ago and for the foreseable future (at least thru Book Four) this is how I do it.

 

I start with this blank lettering guide that I cobbled together myself in '07.

 

Beanworld is (c) and (R) Larry Marder 2011. All rights reserved.

Cut vinyl Lettering on dump truck

from M Parker's library: "look at the rich blacks!" esteemed as the most gorgeously printed book ever (poorly photographed here), from post war Germany. Zapf did all lettering. i've forgotten the punch cutter's name. bad form.

Types: Sistina, Saphir, Bembo and Emerson. Normally wouldn't advise using them all at once, but with the few sizes of each in my cases I didn't have much of choice

Installation with balloons. Part of the Spatial Typography workshop at ECU. 11.06.18

A close-up of the odd profile in the medallion. Not sure anyone would want a haircut like that.

 

Urban Lettering Tour with Paul Shaw. Crown Heights and Bedford-Styvesant, Brooklyn.

Servous system tag, Camelback Road, Phoenix, Arizona.

MEATPACK crew handling the Welcome drinks.

Lettering on a pencil from the 1950s that belonged to my grandfather, probably.

Weekend trip to Manchester, March 2014

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