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Alain Freudiger

"Si l'on s'étend sur un banc et que l'on ferme les yeux parce qu'on tombe de fatigue, un policeman vous réveille et vous intime grossièrement l'ordre de "dégager". Et, si vous cherchez, par une ruse désespérée, une allée délaissée et que vous y étendez votre corps exténué de marcher dans les rues, le policeman omniprésent vous en fera déloger pareillement. C'est une loi votée par le pouvoir qui vous fait éjecter de partout."

Jack London, Le peuple d'en bas, 1902

#livres#Londres#early1900s
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Typographica

@klim advocates for describing a typeface as a material: klim.co.nz/blog/a-typeface-is-. ATF agreed (in 1902):

“Ads that Vibrate: You can’t build them up from poor materials any more than you could construct a superior violin from inferior woods. It’s all in the material.”

Source: Typographical Journal v.21 babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id

Scan of a magazine ad in black ink on white background. The ad has a decorative border, with the main headline, “Good Ads”, in large type at the top left inside a circular frame. At the bottom left is an illustration of a man examining a page with a magnifying glass. Text: “Ads that Vibrate You can't build them up from poor materials any more than you could con struct a superior violin from inferior woods. It's all in the material. You can make living pictures with types originated by American Type Founders Co. The Strongest of Glasses Fails to disclose undesirable features or reveal mechanical imperfections in material originated and made by American Type Founders Company. On the contrary, the more powerful the glass, the more pronounced the perfection and the more apparent is the utility. Designed to successfully meet the most exacting requirements of modern typography, the work of the printer is simplified and printing in all its branches is made better, by the employment of type made by the American Type Founders Co. Page set in American Type Founders Company's unapproachable Roycroft Types and Borders
#Typography#TypeDesign#ATF
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Maija Koivula
It’s 2024 and it’s my first post on this platform. I catalogue and write about my crafts projects, because I’m often proud of them, and I like sharing them because I very much appreciate many craft projects other people share online, and often draw inspiration from the work of others. Since commercial platforms have for some random reason kept shadowbanning me, and 95 % of my feeds seem to be adverisement, here I am. I hope to find my fellow craftists.

I started the year off with a bang, completing a crochet shawl entitled The Rocking Chair shawl, made of two types of yarn (100 % rustic au naturelle and 80/20 nylon enforced sock yarn) of the same colour and weight. The pattern is from a book by Mary Olki, and was more often used in the beginning of the 20th century with cotton, and created to be laid over rocking chairs in Finland. It has an unusual but very plain asymmetrical pattern divided by five. I made it to use up wool that was otherwise gathering dust, and I enjoyed making the fringes very much. #crochet #historicalcrochet #early1900s
Middle aged woman in black with a beige shawl draped over her shoulders
Close up of a crocheted shawl and its wool fringe knots
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