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Lettering: Bluebird Photo-Plays Advertisements, Part 1
Bluebird Photo-Plays began advertising in Moving Picture World, January 8, 1916. In the following January and February issues, Bluebird Photo-Plays ran three-page advertisements. Two-page...
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Lettering: Bluebird Photo-Plays Advertisements, Part 2
Bluebird Photo-Plays Advertisements, Part 1 is here.Burton Rice moved to Paris and mailed his artwork to Bluebird Photo-Plays in New York City. In 1917 Rice produced fewer works for Bluebird...
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Typography: Fortune Cookie Day
Fortune Cookie Day is September 13. Years ago fortune cookie fortunes were printed by letterpress. (Next post on Monday: Jimi Hendrix Tribute House)
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Street Scene: Jimi Hendrix Tribute House
•NEW YORK•54 Englewood Avenue, BuffaloJimi Hendrix passed away September 18, 1970(Next post on Monday:The Movie Star Sphinx)
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Lettering: The Movie Star Sphinx
Moving Picture WorldNovember 3, 1917Theda Bara as “Cleopatra the Siren of the Nile” Moving Picture WorldJune 28, 1919Dorothy Phillips in “Destiny”Postcard viewed at Pinterest. The story of the 1931...
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Lettering: Tom Carnase
A few examples of Tom Carnase’s lettering.The One Show 1974Dust jacket detailThe Great White WhaleGrumbacher BrushesHandsTommyPenthouse, June 1979Mommy BitchPenthouse, August 1979The Last...
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Lettering: Burton Rice Illustrations, 1917–1920
SHEET MUSIC, 1917 MOVIE ADVERTISEMENTS AND POSTERS, 1918 MOVIE ADVERTISEMENTS, 1919 MOVIE ADVERTISEMENTS, 1920 ABOUT BURTON RICEsee Bluebird Photo-Plays Advertisements, Part 1(Next post on Monday:...
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Lettering: Fahrenheit 451
In 1984 Byron Preiss Visual Publications produced a video game adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 for Trillium. The book was published by Ballantine Books on October 19, 1953.Byron Preiss gave...
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Street Scene: Tom Mix Memorial
•A R I Z O N A•Pinal Pioneer Parkway (State Route 79),near Florence (link)Jan. 6, 1880 – Oct. 12, 1940In Memory ofTOM MIXWhose spirit left his body on this spot,and whose characterization and...
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Typography: Trick or Treat
48-page book designed by Alexander Isley.SIDE ONEFlip the bookSIDE TWORelated PostVoyager, Winter 1994 Catalog(Next post on Monday: Parkside Candies)
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Street Scene: Parkside Candies
•NEW YORK•3208 Main Street, BuffaloFurther ReadingParkside CandiesBuffalo News 2016Buffalo Rising 2017Preservation StudiosNational Park Service(automatic download) Today is National Candy...
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Street Scene: Doyers Street
•NEW YORK CITY•Manhattan ChinatownChen Dongfan: The Song of Dragon and FlowersThe New York TimesPhotographed November 2, 2018Street cleaner(Next post on Monday: Pathe Movie Advertisements)
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Lettering: Pathe Movie Advertisements
Raymond CavanaghArtist UnknownRelated PostsBurton Rice Illustrations, 1917–1920Bluebird Photo-Plays Advertisements, Part 1Bluebird Photo-Plays Advertisements, Part 2(Next post on Monday: Happy...
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School Days: 7th Annual Hayden’s Ferry Poster
The Hayden’s Ferry annual festival poster (below) was created in the Fall 1976 term at Arizona State University’s Graphic Design Workshop which was headed by instructors Tom Hall and Ray Varnbuhler....
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Calligraphy: Julian Waters
Wildlife AmericaA Collection of U.S. Commemorative StampsUnited States Postal Service, 1987Selected issues of National Geographic(Next post on Monday: Walter H. Everett, Illustrator)
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Lettering: Walter H. Everett, Illustrator
Above: Lettering reproduced in Benjamin and Jane Sperry Eisenstat’s article,“A Forgotten Master: Walter Everett”, from Step-by-Step Graphics, January 1988.Walter Hunt Everett was born on August 20,...
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Typography: Joseph Diongre, Architect
Jos Vandenbreeden and Linda Van SantvoortSint-Lukasarchief, 1989Exhibition catalog design by Hennebert56 pages; covers and selected pages below About Joseph Diongre(Next post on Monday: Industrial-Arts...
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