An elegantly designed and produced exhibition poster for the Ginza Graphic Gallery’s (GGG) 1993 show Imagination of Letters, celebrating the diversity of Japanese lettering. Highlighting various influences and styles such as Katakana, Hiragana, Chinese characters, vertical and horizontal formatting, and both Eastern and Western design approaches, the exhibition showcased letters as a central and powerful element in graphic design. The characters are embossed onto the poster in glossy black. Held in collaboration with the periodical Vertical and Horizontal Type by Japan's leading font foundry, Morisawa, to celebrate its 10th.....
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A two-color typography specimen poster of the Janson font, produced by the Eastern Corporation paper company to highlight their paper product and its printing attributes. The poster reproduces a broadside advertisement and type specimen sheet of bibles and common-prayer books from 1685. The alphabet is also show in Janson type in sizes ranging from 10 to 36 point. The poster is printed on Eastern's Atlantic Antique Laid paper, which is "ideal for letterheads, envelopes, leaflets, brochures, and folders, as well as for limited edition book-printing"

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A handsome two-color typography specimen poster of the Bulmer roman and italic typefonts, produced by the Eastern Corporation paper company to highlight their paper product and its printing attributes. The Bulmer font was originally designed and cut in England, about 1786, by William Martin for the printer W. Bulmer at the Shakespeare Press. The font is displayed in sizes ranging from 6 to 48 point. The poster is printed on Eastern's Atlantic Antique Laid 24lb. paper, which is "uniform in every respect, its tub-sized surfaces take print equally well on.....
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A two-color typography specimen poster of the Square-Serif font family, developed around 1803, produced by the Eastern Corporation paper company to highlight their paper product and its printing attributes. Also displayed in the margins are multiple samples of other fonts in the Square-Serif style including Arme Latine, Moliere, Poilu Ancien, Stymie, Gold Rush and Eqyptian Condensed. The poster is printed on Eastern's Manifest Bond paper, which is an "outstanding mill-brand paper in the economy-group" which will "insure cleaner, sharper impressions with a minimum of waste, stoppages and other troubles that.....
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A double-sided lettering chart/poster from the Hunt Pen Company, which was the manufacturer of Speedball pens, inks, linoleum cutters and Boston pencil sharpeners. They also published Speedball textbooks of "Modern Lettering and Poster Design," how-to lettering textbooks that were an early and essential resource for designers and sign painters. The famous Speedball lettering textbooks were published throughout the 20th century and it was in its 23rd edition as of 1999. Charts No. 7 & 8 cover the "Steel Brush," the flat metal tip used for bolder handcraft lettering common.....
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A double-sided lettering chart/poster culled from a series of lessons that appeared in the 1930s/'40s Speedball textbook "Modern Lettering and Poster Design". The Hunt Pen Company was the manufacturer of Speedball pens, inks, linoleum cutters and Boston pencil sharpeners. The how-to lettering textbooks were an early and essential resource for designers and sign painters. The famous Speedball lettering textbooks were published throughout the 20th century and it was in its 23rd edition as of 1999. Chart No. 2 explores single stroke Gothic alphabets lettered with style B or F-B.....
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