(We didn’t have a TV and streaming shows and movies didn’t really work well back when this book came out
It includes a survey of constructed roman alphabets and then translates and reproduced a near-forgotten chapter from Verini’s Elements of Lettering printed in the 1520s
The setting out and carving of formal inscriptions is a disciplined
a 1996 graduate of the City & Guilds of London Art School who later assisted Richard Kindersley and Ralph Beyer in their shops before going out on own as a sculptor and letter carver
[a silkscreened ad for Masta Displays, Inc.] cyrusprints (We didn’t have a TVJoseph J. Grossman, who played a major role in the growth of silkscreen printing, died in May 1974, apparently of heart attack. He was 65 years old and lived at 1016 East Ninth Street, Brooklyn. Mr. Grossman, who was employed as a commercial artist early in his career, had a company, Masta Displays, Inc. He was a founding member and president of the Screen Process Printing Association of New York and president of the Screen Process Printing