Service is his only product
Font love letters on walls – Stephen Powers / ESPO. Available from various galleries. Book: A love letter for you: Brick Valentines on the Philly Skyline (DAP Publishers). Studio shot by theselby, more here.
A street type
Street font photography by Joel Birch. For more like this check his crew lo-fi collective and especially the typographers below.
Sanborn maps
“Sanborn Maps were originally created for assessing fire insurance liability in many areas of the United States. The maps include detailed information regarding town and building information in approximately 12,000 U.S. towns and cities from 1867 to 1970. They are a very useful resource for historical research, planning, preservation and genealogical research.” From Dan Tate´s blog.
Fabian Seiz
Machinery like sculptures made from found objects. By Fabian Seiz, images courtesy of Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna.
Parallel strokes by Ian Lynam
Parallel Strokes is a 244 page collection of interviews with twenty-plus contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world. The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of lettering. Printed in glorious Canada and published by Wordshape. Amazon: $ 40. Essential, still.
Black out stencil
Looking for a decent stencil type? The black out turns your walls into an neo 60s loft.
Alphabattle / I am labelled as a bad character
Recent entries from ‘the bad character’ for the alphabattle at lettercult.com. Right now, ‘E’ is up.
Jim Flora’s Illustrations
Now I know how where Parra draws some of his inspiration from – check Jim Flora’s signature and the white-orange-blue-black colorway from his classic album-cover art ’Mambo for cats’ (1955). “Dresseur d’animaux” by Francis Picabia seems to be influential, too.
