Living in Letters: Ten Alphabet Palaces famousintypography This master artist never worked

This master artist never worked for the sake of fame or public appraisement

Strikethrough charts a typographic chant of resistance across more than a century of protest graphics—from nineteenth-century antislavery broadsides to the colorful posters of the Paris 1968 uprising

So we asked Faride Mereb to dig deeper and introduce us (and you) to the work of this Argentinian designer who worked in Venezuela and is worthy of more attention

From 1910 to 1926

These were painted by Philip Surey

Living in Letters: Ten Alphabet Palaces famousintypography This master artist never workedIf we understand the situation correctly, The Merrion Press in London issued a series of fold outs mounted into folders. They called them friezes. The letters in this frieze are taken from Architectural Alphabet 1773 edited by Berthold Wolpe. This 10 panel frieze shows ten letters (A, B, C, S, P, Q, R, X, Y, and Z) from an alphabet made of architectural plans developed by Johann Steingruber (17021787). A flight of fancy for those who fancy flights of