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Kephallenos 1930s AM

By Aaron Macks on September 21, 2011 5:15 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
The new banner image is taken from an article on Yannis Kephallenos, a Greek printmaker and type designer who was active in the 1930s.  This image is from a cover he designed for Kostas Varnalis' Besieged Slaves (1927). 

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Vitruvius Roscius Drop Caps

By Aaron Macks on June 9, 2011 11:18 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Taken from a newly scanned incunabula from Harvard's Houghton library:
Roscius, Lucius Vitruvius, 16th century. De docendi stvdendíqve modo, ac de claris puerorum moribus, libellus ... L. Vitrvvio Roscio parmensi autore, cui adiecimus etiam alios eiusdem argumenti libellos aliquot ... Basileae [ex officina Roberti VVinter, 1541]. IC5 R7355 536dc. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.


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Alphabeast!

By Aaron Macks on November 28, 2010 11:59 AM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
Alphabeast by Heather-Lynn Aquino is a collection of illustrations of the English alphabet, turned into hairy monsters.  They're the source of he new banner
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Endgrain Banner

By Aaron Macks on July 5, 2010 10:23 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
From the fine collection of scanned wooden typefaces at EndGrain comes the most recent title banner.
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A Maritime Banner

By Aaron Macks on June 6, 2010 10:52 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks

Time for a new banner, and another sourced from the excellent resource ArtDico. These are from a 19th Century French maritime dictionary, the Dictionnaire Pittoresque de marine published in 1835 by Jules Lecomte. "A" was for Armament and "M" was for Master of chicken, apparently an important person on a boat.
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Manuscripts, some of St. John's

By Aaron Macks on April 15, 2010 8:17 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
The same monastery that sponsored the greatest work of illumination of at least the last two centuries, the St. John's Bible, has put a large selection of their manuscript collection online.  In many cases the images are not as high-quality as I'd like and the search engine is a bit odd, but the breadth of the collection more than makes up for it. It includes:

I was first attracted to the site because the Hill Museum has the ability to search for illustrated capitol letters by letter, and I was hoping to build a new banner:
(letters from a 13th C Homillary A and M)
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(letters from a 13th C Latin "Vitae sanctorum" [a 16. Februarii usque ad 31. Martii].A and M)
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From another part of the world, both then and now, the Walters Art Museum has started digitizing it's Arabic manuscript collection.  This example of Kufic is a tiny crop of the full-screen image available
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Dropcap Title Image

By Aaron Macks on December 20, 2009 9:37 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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Assembled of letters from Daily Drop Cap

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AM in Bacteria

By Aaron Macks on November 2, 2009 11:30 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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This was part of the Rado Award winning work, Symbiosis by Jelte van Abbema which included printing an entire alphabet in bacterial culture.  The shapes and colors are due to the growth and death of the culture.
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Diderot

By Aaron Macks on October 5, 2009 9:28 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
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In celebration of the birthday of Denis Diderot, the first encyclopediest, this title was assembled from the large capitols that adorned the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers his opus. Diderot was born on October 5, 1713 and published the first edition of his Encyclopedia, with the help of Jean d'Alembert beginning in  1751.

The letter M is from the start of the article on stone masons (Maçon) and the A is from the article on Astronomy. 

Images from Art Dico.

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The Letter A

By Aaron Macks on August 3, 2009 10:26 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
In hunting down some letters to redo the masthead, I found far more A's then M's.  When I have time I'll be posting some of the bachelor letters A.
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From: William Cowper (1666-1709).  Myotomia reformata, or an anatomical treatise on the muscles of the human body illustrated with figures after the life. London: Printed for Robert Knaplock . . ., William & John Innes, and Jacob Tonson, 1724. Images available digitally in the James Moores Bal Collectionl at Washington University's Bernard Becker collection. 
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