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while retaining an energetic and playful attitude

To commemorate our first four exhibits

Objects of Communication: 26 Carved Letters stormyweather (The reproduced stamps shown areThe setting out and carving of formal inscriptions is a disciplined, exacting task. To draw our roman letters, though they may be deeply familiar, is a fiendishly difficult exercise, requiring quality of line, consistency, a keen eye for proportion and much practise. The letters must be well balanced, well spaced, always on their best behavior, controlled, a little suppressed even. Which got Philip Surey wondering; liberated from their linguistic