We do like ‘Architectural’ lettering examples, which we find are often a wonderful source of inspiration for future designs. This particular example was photographed by Mike Davies, letter carver and furniture restorer. This wonderful example of stonemason’s letter carving is bound to find its way as inspiration for our future design programme at some point.
Posts Tagged ‘lettering’
An Intriguing Roman
Posted in Miscellany, tagged Adze, Architecture, Hewing, inspiration, lettering, Mike Davies, Ragged School on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Inspiration III
Posted in Miscellany, tagged carved, inspiration, lettering, Nineteenth Century on September 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Here’s the third of Fred Stevens’ inspirational shots, again showing the craftsmanship and attention to detail that used to be brought to everything. This is the stock of a Boer War era rifle, and utilitarian (and even warlike) nature of the object withstanding we cannot help but admire the excellently hand carved lettering. We particularly admire that Blackletter capital ‘P’…
Inspirations….
Posted in Miscellany, tagged Bideford, Devon, England, lettering, stonemason on September 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We thought people might enjoy this rather inspirational photograph, kindly forwarded by regular reader Fred Stevens. It shows some most excellent stonemason’s lettering and was taken in Bideford in Devon. It is remarkable to view the care and careful thought that used to be put into work like this. We particularly like the capital ‘M’ in ‘Municipal’. Fred has sent us a couple of other similarly inspirational photos, which we shall post later in the week.
An Experiement in Legibility
Posted in General Announcements, Miscellany, tagged children. heavy, display, happy, lettering on July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve been asked to develop some big friendly lettering for captions to be read by small children. Here’s our thoughts so far.
Capital, Admiral!
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged 1900s, Admiral, Architecture, art nouveau, display, distinctive, font, fun, funny, Hotel, lettering, lively, Subiaco on June 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a full set of Capitals for our forthcoming release, Admiral-inspired by an architect’s Art Nouveau lettering on the facade of a local hostelry.
Previewing “Admiral”
Posted in Preview Announcements, tagged Admiral, architectural, font, Hotel, lettering, Subiaco, typeface on June 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Regular readers will rememebr that we wrote about our “Admiral” project, to be based on this example of characterful architectural lettering…
Spotted: Impromtu Typography
Posted in Miscellany, tagged airbrush art, grafitti art, lettering, typography on June 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We thought our readers might enjoy these pieces of informal type design, seen on a temporary hoarding at a train station:
