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Ross F. George at Letterform Archive

https://video.bl.ag/w/tuX8cTkK2b9WRvgLZy32Fu

Gustave Morin, Clean Sails: Typewriter Poems from the Sun Parlour of Canada, New Star Books, Vancouver, 2015.
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See this book in the Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_writingmanuals_0084&targPic=lfa_writingmanuals_0084_027.jpg #LetterformArchive #WritingManual #Calligraphy

Johann Gottfried Weber (calligraphy) and Heinrich-Hugo Cöntgen (engraving), Nachtrag zu der im Jahre 1780 herausgegebenen allgemeinen Anweisung der neuen Schönschreibkunst des hochgräflichen Lippischen und Bottenmeisters und Aktuaeius Johann Gottfried Weber Detmold, Germany, 1784.

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Team retreat at the Eames Archives and Ranch

Last week, the Eames Institute Digital Product team got together at the newly-opened Eames Archives in Richmond, CA and the currently-under-renovation Ranch in Petaluma, CA. Llisa Demetrios – one of the Eames grandchildren, a founder of the Eames Institute, and our Chief Curator – gave DP a private tour of the Archives, and we walked from one end of the Ranch to […]

https://piperhaywood.com/team-retreat-at-the-eames-archives-and-ranch/

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Eugen Gomringer, constellations (“silencio,” “wind,” “o,” “ping pong,” and “avenidas”), 1952–3. As seen in Concrete Poetry: A World View, edited and with an introduction by Mary Ellen Solt, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1968.

From Solt’s introduction: “In 1951 Gomringer had tried to write a few poems of the kind he would later call ‘constellations’…

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Solange Knowles (writing), Carlota Guerrero (photography and art direction), Querida (graphic design), and Fréderique Gagnon (book design conception), A Seat at the Table lyric book, Anteism Books, 2016.

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