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Hand Engraved Social Stationery on Ephemera Society
New article about what is engraving for print application, and, specifically, for the stationery trade in the U.S.
FLOOD BOOK Wins AIGA New Orleans Award
FLOOD BOOK, becomes the winner of the 2009 AIGA New Orleans Design Award for experimenting and social relevance. http://www.aiganeworleans.org/events/design-awards
Funky Fifties Type
Engraved cocktail invitation type taken from a vintage invitation and re-purposed:
Odd-Ball Correspondence School Short Story
While researching the International Correspondence School recently, I was reminded of the odd-ball J.D. Salinger short story about a young man reduced by sad financial circumstances to take a job as a correspondence art course instructor, "De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period": http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/blueperiod.html
I was researching the correspondence school to find out from where this technical text book came: http://books.google.com/books?id=f6lIAAAAMAAJ&dq=International+Library+o...
Love, Marriage, Social Media; Letters Written Long Hand and American Commercial Engraving
Read the article in AIGA Voice:
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/if-edith-wharton-had-facebooked
Impulse Christmas shopping ops (it takes credit cards!) from The Engraving Lady:
http://www.feltandwireshop.com/sellers/133
Some good reading and looking at engraving and other ephemera issues:
http://www.minrec.org/artwork.asp?artistid=31&cat=2&page=1
http://www.common-place.org/vol-07/no-03/rice/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjacques/sets/72157611015946994/
The Doctrinaire Now Available Online
An infrequently occurring newsletter regarding engraving and all that pertains to social stationery.
In Issue Number Five read all about … incredible engraving from New Orleans c1862 … where do monograms come from … what to do when a friend has suffered a loss … mash notes from the real Mad Men era … what to do to get that job.
Since its inception in the Dumbo area of Brooklyn in 2003, The Doctrinaire has been produced on Mohawk Superfine paper, a paper upon which we been engraving since since 1997.
Now available on Mohawk Fine Papers curated shop, http://www.feltandwireshop.com/products/318
NANCY SHARON COLLINS, STATIONER & CENTER FOR THE LETTERING ARTS this Saturday @ New Orleans Book Fair
Including little press proofs of vintage, hand engraved dies, prints of hand-lettered alphabets and original poetry as well as demonstrations of hand engraving by the Center for the Lettering Arts at Mystic Blue Signs.
Our table will be at Lazziza, 2106 Chartres Street, from about 10:00am to 6:00pm.
Yvette Rutledge, master typographer, sign painter and, you guessed it engraver, will be demonstrating the unbelievable art of engraving with nothing but a piece of copper and a graver.
I'll have specimens from my archives and a slideshow on my computer of fantastic engraved works of type from the Harry Ransom Center, including pieces from George Bickham, the elder's "Museum of Arts" where he went wild and crazy with his art (the graver).
Hand Engraved Samples & Press Proofs in VOGUE's Blog
"Need to Know" section of Vogue magazine's online zine by Stephanie LaCava and edited by Virginia Tupker, http://www.style.com/vogue/voguedaily/2009/10/need-it-now-nancy-sharon-c....
This features re-purposed, vintage, hand engraved dies. They are goofy and some with nifty old type.
More Linotype Stories (+ a Little Wood Type)
This is the continuing story of the Linotype rep in Pineville, LA.
Last time I visited he let me photograph some of the trade manuals he has and the set of proofs he pulled from the wood type he owns. You have to scroll left over the whole image, above.
The press proofs of wood type can be viewed on Vimeo, sorry about the quality and long black screen lag at the beginning, motion is not yet my métier:
Cheese or Font? Take the Test.
If this has already been posted I apologize but this is hysterical,
test your knowledge of chees vs. font names here:
