Objects of Communication: 26 Carved Letters stormyweather seasoned to perfection

seasoned to perfection

Cipe Pineles played a pioneering role in the development of graphic design during the era in which the field was just beginning to define itself

meticulous

because the italics from Romanée weren’t released until 1949

To commemorate our first four exhibits

Objects of Communication: 26 Carved Letters stormyweather seasoned to perfectionThe setting out and carving of formal inscriptions is a disciplined, exacting task. To draw our roman letters, though they may be deeply familiar, is a fiendishly difficult exercise, requiring quality of line, consistency, a keen eye for proportion and much practise. The letters must be well balanced, well spaced, always on their best behavior, controlled, a little suppressed even. Which got Philip Surey wondering; liberated from their linguistic