Opa-locka JNL is named for a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida and is based on an Art Nouveau-era bit of hand lettering found on vintage sheet music. Legendary aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss (who successfully...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The design of Candle Wax JNL comes from an original movie poster for the movie “Bell, Book and Candle” starring James Stewart. The oddly erratic letter forms conjure up ideas of spells, witchcraft and...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Belmont JNL is named for an avenue in the Bronx, New York famous for once being the location of the Belmont Estate, which was the home of the Lorrillard tobacco family. The Art-Deco-era hand...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
For decades, the Greenwich Village area of New York was a home for artists, poets, writers and free-thinkers of their time who were labeled “Bohemians” because of their non-conformist approach to life and the...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Although less prevalent today, a cover charge was added to better class night clubs of the 1930s and 1940s to discourage patronage by people of questionable social graces. The general idea was that the...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
Sheet music for the song “Beyond the Blue Horizon” from the motion picture “Monte Carlo” had the movie title in hand-lettering reminiscent of the Futura Black style, but with an inline stripe through each...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The 1920s Art Nouveau movement spawned a number of beautiful hand lettered pieces of sheet music from that era. Attractive and narrow, the characters found on the title page of one such piece of...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 28, 2022
The collection of letterpress cuts included in Printers Helpers JNL offers a generous helping of billing and accounting helpers along with the usual assortment of pointing hands, stylized arrows, cartoon embellishments and other miscellaneous...