Category Archives: Typography

‘Learning to set type’ – An instructional video

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An instructional video from 1959 detailing the painstaking process of manually setting letterpress type.

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Concrete Poetry – Experimental Typography

Concrete Poetry

Examples of concrete/visual poetry, a form of experimental typography that focusses on the composition and arrangement of text over the actual written content.

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Inspiring fluid & abstract typography by Sam Winston

Sam Winston abstract typography

Inspirational playful, abstract, fluid and beautiful typographic designs by artist Sam Winston.

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Blackpool Comedy Carpet – huge typographic environmental design unveiled

Blackpool's Comedy Carpet

Ken Dodd today unveiled Blackpool’s Comedy Carpet, a huge typographic design created from granite and concrete at the base of Blackpool tower.

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A guide to hand-drawing typography from 1929

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A look at Pen Lettering, a guide to hand drawing typography for sign, poster and ticket writers, first published in 1929.

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