The Van Gogh Letter Sketches

Posted by Miss Cellania in Arts & Crafts on October 19, 2009 at 9:46 pm

A few people were lucky enough to be pan pals of a sort with Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh often added sketches or paintings to his letters, to illustrate what he wrote about. BibliOdyssey has a collection of these letter sketches, along with the letters that accompanied them. Link

 
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7 Fascinating Love Letters

Posted by Queuebot in Funny, Odd News on October 7, 2009 at 6:58 pm

Have you ever written a love letter? How did it turn out? Sappy or clever?

I betcha it’s not as awesome as this one sent about 100 years ago by William Weightman. He wrote the entire thing in rebus (for example, the word "dearest" is formed using a picture of a deer followed by the letters "est.")

That’s just one of 7 fascinating love letters in this post by Shaun Usher (the guy behind deputy dog and Letters of Note blogs)

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Servant Until Death

Posted by Miss Cellania in Book & Lit on September 10, 2009 at 2:20 am

Shaun Usher of deputy dog has a new blog called Letters of Note which shares classic correspondence of all kinds. One that stands out is from a slave named Vilet Lester to a member of her former owner’s family, written in 1857. Here is an excerpt.

I am well and this is Injoying good hlth and has ever Since I Left Randolph. whend I left Randolf I went to Rockingham and Stad there five weaks and then I left there and went to Richmon virgina to be Sold and I Stade there three days and was bought by a man by the name of Groover and braught to Georgia and he kept me about Nine months and he being a trader Sold me to a man by the name of Rimes and he Sold me to a man by the name of Lester and he has owned me four years and Says that he will keep me til death Siperates us without Some of my old north Caroliner friends wants to buy me again. my Dear Mistress I cannot tell my fealings nor how bad I wish to See youand old Boss and Mss Rahol and Mother. I do not now which I want to See the worst Miss Rahol or mother I have thaugh that I wanted to See mother but never befour did I no what it was to want to See a parent and could not.

The post contains a transcript of the entire letter and a photograph of the handwriting. Link

 
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Physical Typography: Brilliant Built & Found Fonts

Posted by Urbanist in Arts & Crafts, Everything Else, Pictures on June 17, 2009 at 2:00 pm

In a way, typography has come full circle – what started as a physical process of setting type in machines has been rediscovered as a physical art by a number of creative photographers and designers. Some of these unusual real-life alphabetic collections were found and photographed in nature while others were acted out, constructed or assembled from bodies and objects but all ten sets of type yield compelling images.

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Alfabet in Huid: Typeface Made From Skin and Clothespins

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on May 17, 2009 at 12:41 pm


Photo: Arjan Benning

We’ve seen quite a few creative alphabets, but probably none as weird (and painful) as this set, made with clothespin and skin. It’s called alfabet in huid (typeface in skin) by Thijs Verbeek.

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