104 Years Ago

My Great Grandfathers Bizz card

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Adobe CS4 = Adobe Comic Sans4 ( C-4 )

VENICE FLEAMARKET

Who would have thought that finding the fleamarket in lovely Venice could promise such a nice booty.

I found this very nice letterpress wooden types at a very affordable price. Don't have entire families but still came pretty close in completing a nice 72pt Univers-Bold_Condensed title case ... and there are 8 other half/families among which Garamond, Times, Univers ... and some italian futurist font I didn't recognize. Owning a bit over 300 characters for now.

Can't wait to play with them.

...hopefully soon more on that topic ( searching for a press right now ) - Know anybody who owns one?

OLD PHOTOGRAPHS BACKSIDES

It is truly amazing and at the same time unfortunate that such craftsmanship and dedication is nowadays on the verge of extinction... Presenting here a beginning of my recently founded collection of typographic mastery covering 5 countries for now( Austria, Italy, Romania, France & Hungary ).

For the moment I can name only one person who is courageous enough to investigate this niche. A true master of old habits, a pattern lover, a true experimentalist, and a brilliant craftsgirl ... probably you've guessed it by now... it is none other than Marian Bantjes.

How much time would you spend on a typographic treatment? How much passion would you invest in the one thing you are doing right now? What style is defining the age we are living? What will future generations know us by? What do you do?

Logocity on Typarchive

2 days ago i sent the pictures I did for Logocity TM back in 2004 to Rick Diaz Granados, the guy behind TYPARCHIVE - a website collecting old/new fashioned painted or volumetric typographies from all the corners of the world.

For all you guys having/loving/cherishing this sort of material ( I recommend uploading them on this archive ). Who knows? Your photo might make it into the books they're gonna publish.

Thank you again Rick for the initiative and warm welcome ... and then some more.


Be sure to visit Ricks Type foundry here (STEREOTYPHAUS). ( personally very much dig the CARTEL font )

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