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Japanese Exhibition Poster: Between Botany and Art. Mieno Ryu. 2015
Single Stroke Roman
I spotted this handy guide to nib angles in Speedball Text Book (Edition 15). Note the dotted lines show the twist of the pen.
Found in Clint Harvey awesome collection of specimens and ephemera.
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Smoking’ Hot Type
While I’ve never smoked, and would discourage anyone from doing so, there was an age of innocence and exuberance around tobacco. Smoking pipes and cigarettes was a sign of sophistication and your choice of brand was another way to project your identity.
I assume, like the perfume industry, the product was incredibly cheap to produce and sold for large profits, therefore consumers had to be convinced of its luxury through with catching packaging.
Many of the above packages above are from W.D. & H.O. Wills of Bristol, England, which was founded in 1786. These likely date from the late Victorian period, as the company merged in 1901. With this in mind, the vividness of colours, including metallics, the number of colours printed together and the lettering quality are very impressive.
These beautiful examples were collected in a scrapbook by an unidentified enthusiast and are now being looked after by Clint Harvey who kindly allowed me to photography them.
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Incredible anamorphic artwork covering almost 50 buildings
Created by street artist eL Seed in Cairo, this script lettering aligns when viewed from a point on the Moqattam Mountain. Designed for the community of Zaraeeb, the Arabic script is in a style the artist calls ‘Calligrafitti’:
“Anyone who wants to see the sunlight clearly needs to wipe his eye first.”
‘إن أراد أحد أن يبصر نور الشمس، فإن عليه أن يمسح عينيه’“Zaraeeb – Moqattam Mountain – EgyptIn my new project ‘Perception’ I am questioning the level of judgment and misconception society can unconsciously have upon a community based on their differences.
In the neighborhood of Manshiyat Nasr in Cairo, the Coptic community of Zaraeeb collects the trash of the city for decades and developed the most efficient and highly profitable recycling system on a global level. Still, the place is perceived as dirty, marginalised and segregated.
To bring light on this community, with my team and the help of the local community, I created an anamorphic piece that covers almost 50 buildings only visible from a certain point of the Moqattam Mountain. The piece of art uses the words of Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, a Coptic Bishop from the 3rd century.”
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guatape por mauricio montoya