Kenji Nakayama: 8/27/24 Feb-12-2023 This was mailed by Dorothy

This was mailed by Dorothy Abbe to the designer Howard Gralla on June 10

An exacting classical typographer working with the tools of his time to make timeless books for the trade

Remember when Hans Rudolf Vaget retired from Smith College and they held a symposium in his honor

Railing provides a brief historical survey of avant-garde poetry in Russia and shows how the letter/ sound was applied by Lissitzky in About 2 [Squares] as a corollary to the pictorial images—a relationship that forms the basis of abstract or nonobjective language and painting in Russia

If you’ve not read anything about BR in twenty or so years

Kenji Nakayama: 8/27/24 Feb-12-2023 This was mailed by DorothyLong story: We were out for a walk without phone, pencil, or paper. A Black Lives Matter sign caught our eye. Nice lettering. We crossed the street for a closer look. What a beauty. In the lower corner was the makers mark: Need Signs? Will Paint. We needed to know more, but without any way to make a note, we had to repeat Need signs? Will paint. over and over and over again until we got home. And then we were able to dive into the work of Kenji