Years ago, by happenstance, designers Nancy Mazzei and Brian Kelly found an old decrepit typewriter in an abandoned lot with tall grass in Brooklyn. They kept it around their apartment for two years. Then...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 19, 2015
Brok appeared in 1925 as powerful characters in a magnificent portrait poster cut in wood by Chris Lebeau for the Willem Brok Gallery in Hilversum, Holland. Brok works its figure-ground magic when negative leading...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 16, 2024
Inspired by Font Bureau’s rapid success with the 1990 Bodega Sans, Greg Thompson designed Bodega Serif two years later. It duplicates the same weights and styles as the original in an alternative seriffed design,...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 16, 2015
Working at American Type Founders from a Bruce Foundry recutting, Morris Fuller Benton worked out the dramatics of the English Fat Face, and in 1928 produced Ultra Bodoni, a headline spectacular. Using Benton’s 1933...