April 2012

Type Americana Conference is coming to Seattle

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For the second time, Type Americana gathers historians, designers, engraving enthusiasts and letterpress printers for lectures and workshops focusing exclusively on American type design history. This is a narrow but enormously vibrant and interesting area of research, great visuals, fantastic stories and amazing, in-depth information about American type and print. Furthermore »

On the wire: Chandra Greer visits Loop

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[Chandra Greer] Loop is a small paper goods and textiles company owned by Philadelphian Elissa Barbieri. The collection is based on Elissa’s meticulous, starkly-lush paintings and pen and ink drawings and includes a fascinating, years-in-the-making collaborative series with her mother. Intrigued by her rare, abstract sensibility we talked to Elissa about whether keeping it real also means keeping it small.

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