Billboards across LA in the 1970’s and 1980's, especially those on Sunset Boulevard were bold, brash icons in the sky - The Strip skyline  an ever changing gallery (apart from the Marlboro Man, a 70 foot cowboy puffing ...

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Art and graphic design are great sources of nourishment in my life, food completes the trinity and my larder is a dedicated shrine to this pleasure. Having a traditional walk-in larder I have come to realise its huge ...

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Typography and and use of fonts in graphic design, packaging and art has always interested me. A great online source  for original and unusual fonts is  HMF (HandMadeFont), an Estonian design company founded by two ...

Handmade Fonts

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Graphic Design

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Art

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Illustration

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Patterns

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Book Cover Designs Arachne Press   publishers of fiction, poetry and non-fiction had an open competition  last year for two book covers, for two titles: Lovers' Lies and Mosaic of Air.  I submitted three designs for each ...

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Ed Ruscha’s  paintings incorporate words, slogans, and  phrases that are both enigmatic and surrealistic.  They  allude to popular culture in the States and especially life in Los Angeles.  Works like: ‘Sand in the ...

Words, Type, Image, Art: Ed Ruscha

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