Tag Archive: typography
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Crate digging at the beach house… Here’s some of granddad’s studio stationery c. 1960′s
This image was photographed, cropped, and posted using only my iPhone. Last year, with my meager little flip phone, that would not have been possible. Now, that’s what I call progress.
In contrast, the original artwork was painstakingly assembled using watercolors, ink and cut paper. I wonder what sort of images my grandfather could have created with the technology we have today. I think he would have embraced the progress in his process.
Vintage signage from the Breakers Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ. Taken at The Atlantic City Historical Museum, on the boardwalk at Garden Pier.
Selected examples of custom lettering from Brubaker design portfolios.
Among the treasures saved in the storage closets at the Ventnor, NJ house is this album of typographic inspiration collected by my grandfather (some from the sixties, maybe seventies as well?). It contains dozens of magazine clippings, typeface promos, press-on type, and ads. The slideshow below is probably only 30% of what was in this album. Unfortunately, I was pressed for time, so these are all the ones I photographed.