Tumblr (3.0; @letterology)http://letterology.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lli23qAwzG1qzu6qxo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Poster stamp</p>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/5667877120http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/5667877120Fri, 20 May 2011 11:09:26 -0400poster stampletterpress printing<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkuwsrLt9s1qbl3i2o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://fieldstudy.tumblr.com/post/5339795761">fieldstudy</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The final invites for a friend’s upcoming wedding — an 8 page booklet for a destination that gives all the travel details for a weekend in the Adirondacks.</p> </blockquote>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/5660220209http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/5660220209Fri, 20 May 2011 01:27:01 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lju7iovV9s1qzu6qxo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><span><a title="Robin's Egg Blue Cover" href="http://letterology.blogspot.com/2011/04/robins-egg-blue-book-cover.html">Wood engraving</a> for cover of children’s songbook by New York artist</span><span> </span><span>Alexander Anderson</span><span> (1775-1870), a contemporary of Thomas Bewick. </span></p>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4713626346http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4713626346Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:30:25 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljenxjS2nN1qh2u52o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://mamekko.tumblr.com/post/4477094569">mamekko</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>(via <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/2379150/">Vintage penguin book cover…</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4633598976http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4633598976Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:35:42 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljkbysvO2b1qagc5do1_500.png"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p>Via::<a href="http://letterology.blogspot.com/2011/04/numerology-takes-on-letterology.html">Letterology</a></p> </blockquote>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4595624562http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4595624562Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:35:00 -0400numbers<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lixy1oYgkj1qzu6qxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>This Japanese paperback book is a collection of humorous quotations for businessmen from 1955. I don’t know the significance of the crow, but my guess is it is a metaphor for the salaryman. Hence the wonderful part face, part crow illustration. </span></p> <p><span>:: From <a title="The Salaryman" href="http://letterology.blogspot.com/2011/03/salaryman.html">Letterology</a></span></p>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4241351570http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4241351570Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:22:36 -0400Bookcover Design<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/M5i2XO58J83kckhbbdXBumzu_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://ducly.tumblr.com/post/33155428">ducly</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://ruins.tumblr.com/post/32525551">ruins</a>:</p> <blockquote><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PizdausPopularTodayPics/~3/275095885/single.php">Pixdaus: Popular Today Pics - Abanded Russian Library: When someone here sought knowlege. Now only a spring breeze walks among books</a></blockquote> </blockquote> <p>(via <a href="http://handa.tumblr.com/post/32484658/pixdaus-popular-today-pics-abanded-russian">handa</a>)</p>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4213366933http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4213366933Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:08:44 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lirzhr5GSw1qzu6qxo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Logo for Tested Quality Donut by Clarence Hornung.</p> <p>::Via <a href="http://letterology.blogspot.com/2011/03/clarence-hornung-master-of-marks_27.html">Letterology</a></p>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4160923710http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4160923710Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:08:15 -0400logodonuts<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liryqksUr81qzu6qxo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://letterology.blogspot.com/2011/03/clarence-hornung-master-of-marks_27.html">Letterology</a> celebrates the work of Clarence Hornung. </p>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4160677270http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4160677270Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:51:56 -0400logodesign archives<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lggqyyAdcu1qbye7uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://freakyfauna.tumblr.com/post/3314557546">freakyfauna</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Kaufmann’s Posographe.</em></p> <p>An instrument for calculating aperture and exposure time when taking photographs in any possible situation.For outdoors, it includes settings with values like “Snowy scene”, “Greenery with expanse of water”, or “Very narrow old street”, “Cloudy and somber”, “Blue with white clouds”, or “Purest blue”.</p> <p>More info <a href="http://www.nzeldes.com/HOC/Posographe.htm">here</a>.</p> <p><em><br/></em></p> </blockquote>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4091376735http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4091376735Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:32:52 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5go2dYvGn1qze9l7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://lostintherenaissance.tumblr.com/post/3863008702">lostintherenaissance</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://cinoh.tumblr.com/post/3641180600">cinoh</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://weirdfriends.tumblr.com/post/803248912">weirdfriends</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>A Booklet of folded circular pages holding communications from Prophetess Anna and a native spirit named Carifick P., 1843</em></p> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4091346006http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4091346006Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:31:23 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4ows1KNYg1qcpbl5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://freakyfauna.tumblr.com/post/743014885">freakyfauna</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://bucksbucksbucks.tumblr.com/post/743008563/and-all-other-conveniencies-belonging-to">bucksbucksbucks</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“… and all other conveniencies belonging to funerals”</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4091011733http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4091011733Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:15:09 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3dq64ImWL1qc8khqo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://freakyfauna.tumblr.com/">freakyfauna</a>)</p>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4090943488http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4090943488Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:11:46 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfjevz4iqq1qacmz1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4090842845http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4090842845Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:06:52 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbzo5tRO3f1qc8khqo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://freakyfauna.tumblr.com/post/1592487540">freakyfauna</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Title page from <em>Good Soups</em> by Ambrose Heath (1935).<br/>Illustration by Edward Bawden.</p> <p>Found <a href="http://www.fulltable.com/vts/b/bc/h.htm">here</a>.</p> </blockquote>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4090735525http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4090735525Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:01:34 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l488duGCYh1qc8khqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://freakyfauna.tumblr.com/post/1728670441">freakyfauna</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>snowflakes <a href="http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/aw/2004/kinderbuch/html/hauptmenue.htm">via</a></p> </blockquote>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4090705350http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4090705350Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:00:12 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l48842HGSL1qc8khqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://freakyfauna.tumblr.com/post/1700774862">freakyfauna</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>First snow in Amsterdam today!</em></p> <p>Image found in the <a href="http://mo-paw.blogspot.com/">remote window display</a> of The Monkey’s Paw.</p> </blockquote>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4090679990http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4090679990Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:58:57 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lb7a7po3lI1qc8khqo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://freakyfauna.tumblr.com/post/1452335369">freakyfauna</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Geologie für Jederman</em> by Prof. Dr. Kurd v. Bülow (1974).</p> </blockquote>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4090663175http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4090663175Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:58:06 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lihche5X3G1qzu6qxo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>From the master of line artwork, Saul Steinberg</p> <p>From <a href="http://letterology.blogspot.com/2011/03/art-of-living.html">Letterology</a></p>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4031417950http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4031417950Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:15:14 -0400Hand lettering<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lihcfjwnio1qzu6qxo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>From the master of line artwork, Saul Steinberg</p> <p>From <a href="http://letterology.blogspot.com/2011/03/art-of-living.html">Letterology</a></p>http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4031395285http://letterology.tumblr.com/post/4031395285Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:14:07 -0400