#letttering

Sam at BLAGblag@typo.social
2023-10-19

'The Pittsburgh Portfolio of the H.H. Seiferth Sign Company'

bl.ag/seiferth

This remarkable photographic archive contains the output of one sign firm in the first 30 years of the twentieth century. I have edited a selection for presentation at bl.ag online.

Thank you to Christian Shaknaitis for telling me about the archive, and to the Detre Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center for permission use the images.

#signpainting #pittsburgh #letttering #graphicdesign #signs

Detail of top portion of a hand-painted banner, containing a mixture of lettering and illustration to advertise a clearance sale.

The illustration is of a well-dressed woman in an extremely large hat, sitting on top of a trunk and turning the face the viewer.

The copy reads:

"Good-bye bizzness, farewell to you, we quit April 1st.

"Everything must go, even the fixtures and us.

"Not plunder bought in some junk shop for 'a sale' but our regular stock, the high quality 'nifty stuffe' that we have always handed out with our word and reputation as its guarantee. Come in and look it over."
Applied Meta ProjectsAppMetaProjects@metapixl.com
2023-04-06
LETTER HEAD - Worms
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Experimental lettering piece. Procreate + Stable Diffusion (with ControlNet) + Lots of Photoshop. This picture was censored by Instagram's algorithm soI'm uploading it here. Enjoy (or not)!
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#gusano #worm #earthworm #ver #weird #lettering #weirdart #raro #bizarre #ugly #étrange #print #icky #creepy #pink #bicho #bestiole #bête #gross #crawler #disgusting #asco #asqueroso #dégoût #letttering #experimental #experimentallettering #lettrage #graphicdesign
The word "LETTERHEAD" drawn by worm-like hyper-realistic letters

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