I’d call it The Ubiquity of Type. :P Thanks to Ryan at Making Curriculum POP for sharing.
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Nestled in the corner of the Big Lots furniture department, I stumbled upon this item: a Special Collector’s Edition Inaugural Lava Lamp! Wow! Can you believe it? Don’t you wish they were open right the second, so you could drive over and get one all for yourself?! So, anyway, when I showed it out to [...]
I saw this print today in somebody’s house and was totally inspired. It was actually part of a collage; their names were etched above, and a Bible verse was printed below. I
A second picture for my DanvilleType.com idea. :-) I love the hand-drawn script and the way the text starts all bold and deliberate, then thins and spreads. And by the time it gets to “CHURCH,” it’s a sans-serif block. I wonder if it’s thematic, or if they went with a freeform, whatever-happens approach. And I [...]
Cool old neon sign! Not as old as it seems, though. The building was a grocery store way back when I was a little girl. I’m not sure when the video store opened (I’m thinking in the late ’80s), but it’s been closed for some time.
The other day, I told my student, Alexis, that I really liked her dripping font. Then, yesterday, she handed me this. Yay!
I love typography. There, I said it. And now that it’s out there, I can tell you about the hours upon hours I spent as a kid and teenager writing. Some of it was writing, as in writing something. A lot of it, though, was just writing anything. It didn’t really matter what the words [...]
