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please upload a scan of the envelope ! The Lion King print is so handsome ! โบ
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The Typography post:
This post should bookend some of the neatest typographic stuff I’ve found lately:
MUNICH NEWSPAPER PRINT TEST SHEET
I can only assume that it’s a print test sheet - there’s something really charming beyond the fact that this is essentially a piece of found typography. In essence, there’s no real repetition going on here, by virtue of the fact that I found it in such bad condition - within each ‘A’, there’s a unique texture, and that really interests me. It’s as though different families of this type are being generated through pure chance, and it gives me some ideas for future typeface designs. Another really nice thing about this sheet is that it’s not A4. I don’t think it’s an indexed paper size at all, actually.
PLAYFUL TYPE (BOOK)
Here’s a neat little gif of some neat little spreads I scanned from a neat little book I bought in a neat little shop called magmabooks. Basically this book is a neat little collection of found, constructed and built typography and typographic ephemera. Some highly inspirational stuff in here! Recommended purchase.
TEAGAN WHITE
BEAUTIFUL work, it speaks for itself really - my personal favourite being this one here.
BO BERNDAL
an interview he did recently.
An oldschool print maverick, of whom’s work I absolutely adore (though I gotta be honest, I think I like his logos even more than his typefaces). His first forays into typeface design were in the first few decades of the 20th century and he’s still publishing 'em today, meaning he’s been through - and gone along with - any and all of the technological developments in type design. My personal favourite typeface of his is, and has always been, 'Eknaton’. A pretty standard slab serif typeface until you notice the slants.
BUILD - PURE REVERSAL
hey! that image is the envelope :) the print inside is far less interesting in my opinion :) I will scan the rest of whatever I find fascinating in that cabinet soon, I found a magazine from 1997 with some beautifully hideous typography vomited all over it from cover to cover :)
My book purchase of the summer:
While it did say on the brief ‘Go to Magma’, I didn’t actually do that. I bought a book from Magma BEFORE I found the brief, which I will also be talking about, but as of right now I want to talk about a really beautiful book I found (and bought) in ArtWordsBookshop in Hoxton.
First of all, though, i’d like to talk about my purchase from Magma - the book I bought is called
Come Again! by Robert Frank
What was really charming about this book was not only it’s presentation, but it’s personal nature. This book is prints mimicking polaroids stuck down with different types of tape and different tacking methods all together, printed on some thin graph paper giving the book a really delicate feel (which I really dig). On top of that all, the book is an attempt by the designer to recreate a sketchbook-to the finest and most minor detail-that he lost whilst travelling. This gesture gives the book undeniable charm, in my eyes.
And the book I bought in that nice little shop hidden away down some alleys in Hoxton is called
Russian Criminal Tattoo - Encyclopaedia Volume 1 (various Authors)
This book is gorgeous, and I’m really pleased I bought it. It contains a few different things that I really adore. First of all, there’s a foreword written by an learned ex-convict that was born into a well known and respected family of wealthy men and women with their own colourful histories - he has a lot to say about the prison the book is based around, and it gives what appears to be a simple photo album a lot more context, and lends a literary interest to the visual aspect of the book. Next, there’s the section of photography (above) that occupies the first 50 or so pages after the 40 page strong contextual writing. It begins to get REALLY interesting, however, at around page 115, when the first drawings of the tattoos in the photos are introduced (along with drawings of tattoos that aren’t previously photographed) - all of which are drawn, interestingly, by the writer of the foreword. There is a lengthy and beautiful collection of tattoos, each of which have their own rich context, some historical and some personal. What really captivates me is that each tattoo is translated, given an 'official’ name (by prisoner families and mobs) and many are given a paragraph or so description. Later in the book, I found a collection of pages that really jumped out at me, and they were the prime reason I bought the book.
In all, this book is fucking awesome and it was money very well spent. Makes me glad this was part of the brief.
5 minute page:
If you came up to me right now and asked me to make a 5 minute highlight reel of my blog, it would be just like this except instead of me asking myself like I am now, you would be asking me. And it would look like this:
THESE THINGS ON MY BLOG DO THE BEST TO REPRESENT MY TASTES:
RUSSIAN CRIMINAL TATTOOS - SYMBOLS.
UNITED VISUAL ARTISTS.
MUNICH NEWSPAPER PRINT TEST SHEET.
more posts to come, but these fit the requirements :)
ASC II book!
Microsite for Peace is up, and somehow it’s mobile ready? cool! www.kiatas.me/peace/ - it will change with time and the illustrations will be archived
Peace Clock, on show now (along with all of the glyphs) at www.kiatas.me/peace/ - works on the phone believe it or not… that was lucky