fresh start

merry christmas

I love this X so much. So clean and swoopy. Merry Christmas.

fleur de lis

pretty ornaments (page details) from the Fonderie du Sieur Delacolgne, 1773

mystery club

This is a bookplate by Reynolds Stone. I want to join!

oh

As soon as I send out a little complaint about the weather the sun comes out and new business cards arrive in the mail.

By the way, OCR F is great, but it is very hard to kern (even though it isn't a monospace like OCR A).

pink sun

Whenever I visit a letterpress, I try to collect some letters or ornaments. This is from a funny little place, now gone. The lily on the top of my page is one from that collection, too.

kuku

I was playing around with some type, looking for a word with two k's, when I heard someone call "kuku". Which is short for Kulap, which means "rose" in Lao.

no. 5

(SeaBus)

Arabisch-Türkisch

I'm working on a catalogue right now with some Arabic characters and I realize how little I know about non-roman type

I found these pretty Turkish specimens from Budapest, 1922, D. Stempel Foundy.

ornamented book spread

detail of monogram samples — I love the roman type on this very much, too.

alpine grocery

I've been fond of this typeface for a long time, but an appropriate project hasn't crossed my desk yet.

It's very clean and appealing. If only I had a little alpine grocer's, I would use it for everything.

Hello, monday

A pretty golden m to begin the week.

tiger free association

March, in like a tiger. Remember tiger ice cream? And belle & sebastien (tiger milk).

Old sleepy tiger (with a bell sewn in his paw)

cococake tiger

typographic tiger (hundreds & thousands)

auggie tiger

Silk handkerchief by Sukie.

Tigers by Scott Malin

Plumo

Tigerboat

Collage

This beautiful collage is from Typographica Magazine, an experimental typographic journal from 1949 to 1967.

A collage made out of bus tickets, or any type of everyday-material, also becomes a time capsule.

The last time we moved I found a bus transfer from ten years ago in my pocket and it looked quite special, since they've been redesigned. (I didn't think to scan it at the time, but it looked like this.)

R & J collections

We have new activities to package and post, but in the meantime we thought we would show you this surprisingly accurate portrait of us. In fact, here are some samples from our collections...