Friend and designer Samantha Curcio recently introduced me to the site Shorpy. Shorpy is a vintage photography blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. There is hours of inspiration on this site. I love the images featuring signage with beautiful handwritten typography. Also the old branding like Dr Pepper below. It’s so awesome to see how brands have evolved.
All images link to the Hi-res version on Shorpy. Images © Shorpy
Read MoreA fabulous site that I’ve just discovered with lots of vintage goodies. “Display is a curated collection of important modern, mid 20th century graphic design books, periodicals, advertisements and ephemera.” The feature on the World Design Conference in Tokyo is definitely worth a look.
Happy Font Friday! I have an awesome vintage font for you this week. Roman Print Variously Shaded is from the 1800s and has been scanned at high resolution from vintage books. You can download the eps file from Vintage Me Oh My (if you’re not familiar with this site yet it has the most amazing vintage packaging, typography and signage inspiration!) Enjoy.
via Vintage Me Oh My
Also don’t forget to head over to Design Editor to find out the winner of the Font Friday Skunkling giveaway! You can still download my free printables here.
You can see more great font friday picks on these wonderful blogs (there’s a few new ones in there!) The Aerialist Press, Blush Printables, Bubblerock, Fourth & Folded, Lauren Elise Crafted, Palm Papers, Super Swoon, Hank & Hunt, Honey Bee Inivtes, Weswen Design, Go Against the Grain, And Everything Nice, Curly Willow, Design Editor, Brancoprata and Little Bit Heart
Read MoreYou definitely don’t need to be a soccer fan to enjoy these posters by Zoran Lucić. Stunning work.
Happy font friday!! I’ve been inspired this week by a book that I brought from the fabulous designer Louise Fili. Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design’s Golden Age is filled to the brim with gorgeous typography examples from throughout America and Europe. So today I’m sharing with you a beautiful script font called Breathe.
I love this quote from the designer about the font; “Breathe Pro is inspired in the Art of our predecessors, those who with a pen loaded of ink would decorate each letter, each page in such a lovely way. Yes, -lovely- is the word. We would not have the amazing lettering artists, calligraphers, typographers of nowadays if that -love for letters- had not traveled from generation to generation. Breathe Pro is an example of this love. An example of what Maximiliano R. Sproviero feels about typography and letters.” You can purchase Breathe from MyFonts for $20… bargain!
I hope you enjoyed this week’s post! You can see more great font friday picks on these wonderful blogs Lauren Elise Crafted, The Aerialist Press, Blush Printables, Brancoprata, Bubblerock, Fourth & Folded, Hank + Hunt, The Knotty Bride, Litte Bit Heart, Palm Papers and Super Swoon! And also a warm welcome to new font friday friends Honey Bee Invites, Design Editor, Go Against the Grain and Weswen Design.
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