Crop circles & Fleurons of Hope
Fleurons of Hope is a font created as part of Font Aid III to benefit the victims of the South Asian tsunami of 2004, an effort coordinated by SOTA. It is no longer available on myfonts.com, but can be found packaged with Building Letters Three. I collected the images of crop circles and type ornaments … Continue reading
White House Cook Book
I clipped the cover image of the White House Cook Book when I saw the book for sale because I was intrigued by the swashes and the attractive, haphazard layout. Published in 1913, it’s in the public domain, and can be viewed in full online. The first chapter on carving has cute line drawings of … Continue reading
Women of mystery
One day I photocopied inspiration images using an unmaintained institutional Xerox machine. Normally I would be aggravated it couldn’t reproduce tonal images accurately—but on that day the beautifully grainy, sfumato results, like mezzotints, were a happy accident. Or a mysterious and melancholy one. I give you goddesses, warrior women, noir ladies and theater gypsies—how they … Continue reading
NANA title numbers
Facing the “First post!” awkwardness made me think about numbers and dates themselves, and I remembered some screencaps I took while watching the anime NANA. The show charts the friendship between naive good girl Nana Komatsu and cynical rocker Nana Osaki—the odd couple as young, female and Japanese. Each episode featured a uniquely designed title … Continue reading
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