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Dada-y of The Dada Movement Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French artist born July 1887. He grew up in a particularly artistic household. His direct family read books, made music together, painted, and played chess, and his paternal grandfather, Émile Frédéric… Continue Reading →

A hand rendered historical type identification poster! (12×24 inches). I started my type identification poster by conducting a considerable amount of research. I knew I wanted to use digital versions of typefaces as guides when rending type by hand. This… Continue Reading →

Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic’s Tasteless Advertising Ironically lemon flavoured, Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic was a medicine created to help fight the fevers that came along with contracting Malaria. Invented by an American pharmacist, Edwin Wiley Grove, the tonic went to market in… Continue Reading →

When presented with the brief for this project, I thought it might be fun to carve my own template for a woodblock print. Still, it took me a few days to decide I wanted to attempt a Japanese-style print. I… Continue Reading →

Art Nouveau — Contrived In The Best Way Possible If there’s one thing I’ve learned studying the history of art and design, it’s that people love to recycle. Love it until they don’t that is. In the late 1880s, artists… Continue Reading →

I created The Tiny Tome Of Humanist Typography to look like an old book to fit the subject and period of the early humanist typefaces. In my research, I noticed most zines are very busy. This inspired me to try… Continue Reading →

Illuminated Manuscripts From approximately 1100 to 1600, all books, or manuscripts as they were known, had to be written by hand. In addition to the often ornamented scripts, these ancient tomes included decorative illustrations, often created by adding thin layers… Continue Reading →