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Book of the Day: Typology

Pixação or pichação: I prefer you to hate me than ignore me… from potitical graff to acrobatic bombing as voice of the favela

“Street Art” not even approximately intended for the gallery… (Glad the cool hunters have caught on!) Pixolita, Jensine Eckwall Pixolita is a decorative typeface with inscriptional roots. It is sans-serif in the conventional sense, but has invented serifs made from arrow-like forms. The letter-forms have irregular counters and a high crossbar, with a fixed line [...]

Ed Ruscha on Sign Painting and Graffiti and Upcoming Excitable Media

(Sign Painters book by Faythe Levine & Sam Macon, cover art by Ira Coyne) The creators of hand-painted signs have engaged in an elegant and noble art form in all of its extremes, but in a world of computer plastics, where do we go? Children are not even taught longhand writing these days. You might [...]

Bill Daniel’s: 847, DO YOU HAVE YOUR RADIO OFF? – Zine Review

Bill Daniel’s zine 847, DO YOU HAVE YOUR RADIO OFF? published by the fine folks at Hamburger Eyes is a gem. If you have spent time in SF, wandering around the Mission and the alleyways south of Market, grokking graff and walking your three-speed around puddles admiring Reminisce’s (THR) horses… throw-up one color horses galloping [...]

Signs, signs, everywhere signs . . .

          And the sign says “Everybody welcome, come in, kneel down and pray”. But then they passed around a plate at the end of it all, and I didn’t have a penny to pay. So I got me a pen and a paper and I made up my own fuckin’ sign. [...]