Mayfair Cursive Mags&Zines this 2-color beauty by Piet

this 2-color beauty by Piet Zwart broke new ground and brought stamps into the 20th century

spirale was a seminal international journal dedicated to concrete art

And it’s from Louise’s personal collection

And in these troubling times

had contributed significantly to the development of the day’s typography

Mayfair Cursive Mags&Zines this 2-color beauty by PietWhen one works on books about slabs, stencils, shadows, and scripts, one needs a lot of examples around. Like, when Louise Fili was working on Scripts, she picked up this specimen of Robert Hunter Middletons Mayfair Cursive. It reminds us of those placemats at diners that have ads on them. (Those were the inspiration for this, by the way.) Not a pretty specimen, but that makes sense: Ludlow faces werent pretty. They were workhorses. That this is from