Monday, July 3, 2023

Ben Shahn to Kate and Amparo


This was the first Ben Shahn style I tried. It has the same problem as the earlier Ben Shahn envelopes I posted - it's too tight. I only had one exemplar that I found online - and I had forgotten that he had very fun ways of overlapping the letters or creating ligatures - which is the technical term for letters that layer or connect. 

Below is my envelope to Amparo - done after I saw some better examples of how fun and creative one can be with the Ben Shahn lettering. Clearly, I loosened up a bit. It's still only B- if we want to give it a grade. 



 

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