Have always enjoyed the typography and art found in early illuminated manuscripts. Something about the line work and ornate letter forms really appeals to me.
Browsing around some typography websites the other day I came across mention of a book titled, Early Venetian Printing. It’s apparently extremely rare, but the Internet Archive has both scanned copies (in PDF format) and an online version for viewing.
A collection of facsimile illustrations of pages from early printed books, initials, borders, title-pages, printers’ marks, art bindings, etc., with short introductions by Carlo Castellani (p. 9-[20]) on Venetian printing, printers’ marks, water-marks and music printing; also a note on bindings (p. 217-218)
Think I might have found inspiration for future tattoo work… if I can only draw in cat heads for all the figures.


A method to produce the perfect book.
Looks like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today.
(Via Passive Aggressive Notes)
Sounds about right to me.
(via Freelance Freedom)
(via Joshua Brewer)
Funny how the words make it pop or sizzle are absent from this quote…
I just Geocities-ized my website using the Geocities-izer. I feel like I’m back in high school and it’s 1997 all over again! AOL 3.0 on a 14.4k modem was the best…
Minimalist poster designs by Gideon Slife for the first 78 episodes (seasons 1–4) of the television series LOST.
Client: “Make the numbers in our phone number capitalized to stand out more”
Me: “That’s not possible…”
Client: “Just hold the SHIFT key and type our phone number!”