From the fine collection of scanned wooden typefaces at EndGrain comes the most recent title banner.
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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.
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)
(letters from a 13th C Latin "Vitae sanctorum" [a 16. Februarii usque ad 31. Martii].A and M)
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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- St. John's Abby Collection - artifacts and documents gathered by the monks of St. John's in the last 150 years
- Ethiopian Manuscript Project - 400 years of Ethiopian manuscripts
- Hill Manuscript Museum and Library - a long-standing project to preserve and make accessible manuscripts, originally on microfilm
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)
(letters from a 13th C Latin "Vitae sanctorum" [a 16. Februarii usque ad 31. Martii].A and M)
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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Using a programming toolkit called Processing Peter Blaškovič has created a collection of little interactive toys based on novel interpretations of basic physics, like particle interactions. One of the newest ones, Flame allows on to simulate, quite well the sort of long exposure work that Julien Breton (previously referenced) does in reality.
Sadly the image export function is broken on the Macintosh, but I was able to capture a sample of my work via screenshot and borrowed a sample of Peter's work from the gallery.
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Sadly the image export function is broken on the Macintosh, but I was able to capture a sample of my work via screenshot and borrowed a sample of Peter's work from the gallery.
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I've seen many fonts try to play the "optical illusion" card, but seldom as well as Priori Acute by Jonathan Barnbrook and distributed by Emigre.
To add to the fun, some letters have alternate forms, as seen in the R
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To add to the fun, some letters have alternate forms, as seen in the R
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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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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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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.
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.
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.
