Special Effects @SMeltery
Recently found in a flea market this marvelous 19th Century Belgian poster (a sign painter catalog cover actually) that shows different 3D type effects. I wish I had found the whole catalog.
NB. I’ve been a fan of Jack Usine’s fonts – Jack’s firm in Bordeaux is called Smeltery – for a long while now. Also, don’t miss his photo-signage-typography blog Jules Vernacular.
Ugly Duckling Presse
Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit art & publishing collective producing small to mid-size editions of new poetry, translations, lost works, and artist’s books. The Presse favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers with well-defined formal or conceptual projects that are difficult to place at other presses.
UDP’s full-length books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, magazine and newspaper all contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking.
- Address: 232 3rd Street, #E002, Brooklyn, New York, 11215
- Cross Streets: Corner of Third Avenue
- Phone: 718.852.5529
- Website: Ugly Duckling Presse
- Email:
- Directions: via Google Maps
→ Flickr: The Folk Typography Pool
Nice collection of found folk and more self-conscious typography. This murial on Henry’s in Venice pretty much made my morning. Also don’t miss 4 1/2 pm.
What awesome type
Marlene came over the other day and brought a beautiful Mexican architecture book along with her. It was published in the 60s. She bought it in a second-hand book store in Mexico City if I recall correctly. The type throughout has this archetypal 60s Mexico feel.
