Just came back from holiday in Rome, and apart from the many pizza, pasta, wine and ice cream; I managed to observe some nice hand crafted typography and lettering work on different materials and from (mostly) old and more recent eras. Loved the variety, in texture, face, techniques… from very carefully hand carved text in [...]
Posted on: 28 October 2009, 1:40
Posted in: design inspiration, typography Tags: ancient, hand crafted, lettering, material, Rome, techniques, texture, typography Leave a comment
I have always had a fascination for translucent/tracing papers, probably because I have always loved beautiful colours and light working together… I recently came across the family of paper Cromático, -ca.® by Thibierge & Comar, a French paper mill. They manufacture a collection of translucent papers in 15 shades and 8 weights with matching envelopes. [...]
Posted on: 18 October 2009, 19:00
Posted in: paper mill/merchant, paper profile, specialty paper Tags: coloured paper, Cromatico, French, FSC, Thibierge & Comar, tracing paper, translucent paper Leave a comment