Afterparty: Graffiti/Sampler Resources & More
Resources from Craig Eliason's 10/28 presentation, type book releases, historical type industry publications. If you have resources to add, please share them in the comments!
At our 10/28 meeting, everyone was left wanting more embroidered samplers and graffiti — Craig Eliason has kindly shared helpful online resources on both below. After the presentation and Q&A, discussion turned to new type book releases, and old type industry newspapers. If you have resources to add on any of the meeting or discussion topics, please feel free to add them in the comments!
Resources: Embroidered Samplers & Graffiti
Samplers:
- Sampler Archive - https://samplerarchive.xyz/sapbeta_prod/index.php
- Dr. Lynne Anderson on the Vermont Sampler Initiative -
Graffiti:
- François Chastanet on Philadelphia handstyles - https://francoischastanet.com/philadelphia-handstyles/
- Style Wars, seminal documentary -
- Urban Art Mapping project, from colleagues at St. Thomas -
https://www.urbanartmapping.org/
Books: Type Design Releases
After we all admired James Edmondson’s gorgeous “The OHno Book”, I made a shameless plug for a new addition to my hoarding situation type book reference library, “Specimen No. 0” by Fernando Mello, which chronicles his 22 years in the industry. It is gorgeous, charming, and has little backstories on all the fonts Fernando made from 2001 — 2023. Perhaps adding to its allure, the red-black-and-white-all-over volume may only be purchased by DM-ing Fernando on Instagram (@fermello78), and then naturally one waits anxiously by the mailbox for it to arrive from Brazil (spoiler: worth it!).
History Things: Type Industry Publications, circa 1990 or thereabouts
Mark Simonson brought two very cool type industry news publications for review, TypeWorld and The Typographer to the meeting (terrible photos, there is no good lighting angle in that room). So fun seeing that release of Adobe Type Manager headline. And the TypeWorld masthead = A+. Question, is there a definitive type industry news source currently, or is anything worth knowing just shared and discussed on TypeDrawers?
As always, if you have resources to share, please do so in the comments!