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here's a random paperpost, from 25 January 2017:

Letterform Archive - an eclectic sample
https://www.paperposts.me/letterform-archive-an-eclectic-sample

#oulipo #LetterformArchive #emigr #poster #dada #Queneau #paperpost #visualpoetry #1990s

Back in stock for EU and UK customers, plus a few international destinations: 'Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painter Alphabets' from @letterformarchive

https://shop.bl.ag/products/lettres-decoratives

There's more about the book in this recent bl.ag online review:

https://bl.ag/lettres-decoratives-and-the-history-of-french-sign-painting/

#SignPainting #Enseignes #Signwriting #Books #LetterformArchive

Wes Wilson, posters for concerts at the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, 1966–67, and Alfred Roller (lettering), Ver Sacrum Kalender, Austria, 1903.

See more from the Ver Sacrum calendar in the Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_austria_0001

#LetterformArchive #PsychedelicArt #WesWilson #FillmoreAuditorium #AlfredRoller #VerSacrum #Jugendstil #Lettering #GraphicDesignHistory

Fortunato Depero, Campari 1931 Advertising Art for Davide Campari & Co., Milan, 1931. Made in collaboration w/ Giovanni Gerbino (poetry) and Franco Casavola (music).

quadri—disegni—liriche poesie—motti in libertá proiezioni parolibere—paesaggi tipografici—pubblicità plastica—profezie pubblicitaire—musica e arte decorativa che canta, illustra e glorifica cordial e bitter Campari

#LetterformArchive #Campari #FortunatoDepero #Futurism #Futurismo #AdvertisingArt #Branding #Lettering #Illustration

Happy birthday to the Apple Macintosh! This week marks 40 years since Apple unveiled the original Macintosh at an event in Cupertino.

Image: Susan Kare, MacPaint sample artwork for Macintosh sales brochure, Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, 1984.

#LetterformArchive #AppleComputer #AppleMac #MacPaint #SusanKare