Googie Architecture, also known as “Midcentury Coffee Shop Modern,” was born in California during the Atomic Age. Martini at Joe’s is based on lettering from several historic Googie sources – many of which no...
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Alta California became designer steve mehallo’s “vector-based artist’s response” to the early Apple Macintosh bitmapped font San Francisco. Alta California was developed using “sampled” wood type and letters from numerous historical sources. The…
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Escoffier Capitaux is named for culinary legend Auguste Escoffier (1846-35) and inspired by lettering used in vintage French advertising – including the work of commercial illustrator/fashion designer Ernst Dryden (1887-1938) WITH a hearty serving…
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TwentyFourNinetyOne [2491] is a reinterpretation of the alphabet of 1919 by Theo van Doesburg; the original a true rendering of the thinking of the Dutch-based art movement “de Stijl.” Jump forward to 1980 and...
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Jeanne Moderno is a revisionary type family. A synthesis of Bodoni Italic and 19th Century Ultra-Bold “Fat Faces”—distilled with personality taken from early 20th Century Modernists; the Futurists, Dadaists, Suprematists, Constructivists…
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With the printing of the Futurist poem “Zang Tumb Tuuum” in 1914, modern art had taken a typographic twist: “words in freedom” (parole in libertà) were now a major part of the art world....