Category Archives: Spring 2018 Archive (336)

I chose this piece because I feel it exemplifies the style I hope to create. It is old in it’s medieval style, but it is also displayed in a plain modern-esque fashion. I find the very angular thin portions of … Continue reading →

While on our trip to the museum, the two pieces that mostly caught my eye was the gay Asian poster and “Making Tide” a contemporary comic book. The text used where each Asian person’s name was written on the poster … Continue reading →

In the selected text, I believe that it has the visual presence it does because of its presentation of a poem. I’m unsure exactly what it is because of the different language, but the text is written in an italic … Continue reading →

I chose to analyze the book of music, written in Spain in 1500. It is a latin song book, for use by the Catholic Church in masses and special ceremonies. It is a handwritten manuscript, even though its as created … Continue reading →

I decided to use the Mary Martin Rebow papers for this post mostly because cursive, as a written text, isn’t very popular anymore, and in some schools isn’t being taught.  I don’t want to call it a lost language but … Continue reading →

This confederate currency uses multiple fonts, but this side only has one font and it is quite large comparing to the other side.  This typeface is uppercase and the serifs do not dip below the baseline as you can see … Continue reading →

The book “Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile” was one of the first books in the MASC that caught my attention. The book was published by Kelmscott Press, which is a private press created by William Morris in the … Continue reading →

Looking through the various documents in the MASC, one that really caught my eye was this typography example I found in the book The Fleuron. I was entranced by the eye-catching and bold forms and shapes, as well as the … Continue reading →

For my example, I chose to took at the fairytale type book Of The Friendship of Amis and Amile by William Morris, which was published in 1894. The book is 67 pages and categorized as “medieval poetry”. 500 copies were published … Continue reading →