* a good friend gifted me this vintage Life magazine a few years ago which features the article “Jackson Pollock. Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?” that helped launch him simultaneously into popular culture and perhaps personal downfall at the age of thirty seven – i’ve also included some interesting editorial and advertising content from the same issue for context – “When I’m in my painting,” says Pollack, “I’m not aware of what I’m doing.” //
* recently found a 1934 edition of “Book of American Types ( Standard Faces ) : aAmerican Type Founders” in a used bookstore – from the preface : “during the last decade there has been a period of experimental effort in typography the influence of which at times has carried us a long way from the traditional past. older rigid notions of classifications limiting a type face to certain definite kinds of use have been largely discarded. script types that once were confined to stationery and society printing are now appearing even in newspaper advertisements in daring association with bold-face letters.” //
* The Original Base-Lock Rubber Type – picked up a couple fonts a few years ago at an old rubber stamp place in town and recently went back and got an original brochure from the 1960′s //
* highlights from a collection of hundreds of typography photos shot while traveling the United States from Black Hills South Dakota to Tarpon Springs Florida : photography _Eric Kass ((( view the entire photo set at *f_type_found ))) //