It is with great trepidation that I continue to schedule all these envelopes that I discovered. I think they were sent in June -- I can't remember if they were recorded on my master list of styles and who has received which style. So - that whole plan has been shot in the foot. Or maybe blown to smithereens is more like it.
Are we bothered? No we are not.
Does anything bother us? Probably. But we are too focused on the mission of the day.
Empty that folder.
I like this one -- it deserves to be it's own category.
Perhaps I will do more of these -- keep in mind - Jessica has 19 letters in her name -- so the possibility of anyone else's turning out this nice is slim to none. But, that won't stop me from trying.....
Below is that Rachaelesque style that I love to do. It would have looked way better with a pastel stamp.
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I loved this video - it's a lecture - probably only of interest to people who have engaged in some typeface and lettering studies. It illustrates how some very old work can still look very fresh and contemporary. The part where he was a soldier in a POW camp and convinced fellow prisoners to pull out strands of their hair so he could make a brush - and then what happened to the artwork he created is also a compelling part of the story.
Here is the blurb at the link:
This talk took place on October 12, 2023 in the Rose Auditorium at The Cooper Union in NYC as part of Type@Cooper's Herb Lubalin Lecture Series. The archival recordings of the series are made possible by the generous support of TypeCulture.
In a career that spanned 75 years, Friedrich Neugebauer (1911–2005) developed and refined a calligraphic style like no other. With roots that extended back through his own teacher, Rudolf von Larisch, to the Jugendstil and the Wiener Werkstätte, Friedrich worked with a compelling palette of colors, materials, textures, and scales. He created broadsides and manuscript books, signage, sculptures, established a private press, and taught generations of students. Neugebauer’s The Mystic Art of Written Forms (translated into English by our speaker in 1980) is often cited as one of most important manuals of calligraphy ever written. He also published children’s books of the highest artistic merit, and helped to launch the careers of such illustrators as Lisbeth Zwerger.
Please join us for a visual exploration of Neugebauer’s distinctive works, and a glimpse of his life in a small village in the Salzkammergut — Austria’s “Sound of Music” country.
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