“Archival recovery: it’s journalism, but with dead people” 😵☠️🪦🗃️ Elizabeth Colwell (1881–1961) was the only woman listed as an American designer by American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) in 1948. A working artist in Chicago, she was a printmaker, painter, and writer, plus designed Colwell Handletter and Colwell Handletter Italics for American Type Founders in 1916. Colwell wrote about hand lettering ✍️ for Sketch Book (1904). Her work also appeared The Printing Art (1905) and Inland Print...
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“Archival recovery: it’s journalism, but with dead people” 😵☠️🪦🗃️ Elizabeth Colwell (1881–1961) was the only woman listed as an American designer by American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) in 1948. A working artist in Chicago, she was a printmaker, painter, and writer, plus designed Colwell Handletter and Colwell Handletter Italics for American Type Founders in 1916. Colwell wrote about hand lettering ✍️ for Sketch Book (1904). Her work also appeared The Printing Art (1905) and Inland Print...
“History: problematic and cool, all at once” 📜✒️🗃️ Anna Simons (1871–1951) taught hand lettering to a generation of designers. She studied calligraphy with Edward Johnston at Royal College of Art (UK), then taught courses in his place in Germany and translated his work into German. After WWI Simons went on to teach how to use broad nib pens across Europe for decades. She also designed some 1400 titles and initials for Bremer Press.🖋️ Simons was part of the BUGRA (Weltaustellung für BUchgewerb...
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“Archival recovery: it’s journalism, but with dead people” 😵☠️🪦🗃️ Elizabeth Colwell (1881–1961) was the only woman listed as an American designer by American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) in 1948. A working artist in Chicago, she was a printmaker, painter, and writer, plus designed Colwell Handletter and Colwell Handletter Italics for American Type Founders in 1916. Colwell wrote about hand lettering ✍️ for Sketch Book (1904). Her work also appeared The Printing Art (1905) and Inland Print...
