A Book For People Who Love Typography

If you are someone who loves typography as I do, you should treat yourself to a magnificent book on the subject by Steven Heller and Louise Fili. The book—Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age—contains more than three hundred pages of vintage magazine images, signage, advertisements, stationery, food labels, wine bottles, packaging, and more. Script…

Goodbye old portfolios

I said goodbye to our old portfolios this week. My partner, Gary, and I were cleaning out the office closet. There were four portfolios filled with past printed samples. We had used them to show potential clients our work, hopefully, to win a client over, and to sell our creative services.  The portfolios were filled…

Vintage poster project

A blast from the past—a vintage poster we designed long ago. Fond memories of a favorite project surfaced when I found old photo negatives* of a concert while I was searching for something else. Creative challenge: Design a commemorative poster to welcome musicians Flora Purim and Airto Moreira, who were doing a concert to benefit…

Vintage color history

I inherited a vintage book “Achievement in Photo-Engraving and Letterpress Printing” 1927, it’s ONLY 488 pages with over 600 illustrations. Published by the American Photo-Engravers Association (Chicago, IL). “Definition: Photo-Engraving is an interpretive art founded upon photo-mechanical processes enhanced by skill and artistry, which translate and convert tone values into relief printing surfaces, from which…