Prouk’s Picks
Applied Arts friend and advertising legend Gary Prouk, of Sebastian Consultancy, provides links that will help you kill time, avoid work and find inspiration and entertainment.
Vintage Tokyo Subway Posters: Pink Tentacle presents these vintage (1976 to 1982) posters that use characters ranging from Charlie Chaplin as the Great Dictator to Superman to teach commuters manners, including not taking too much room on subway seats or leaving gum underfoot.
Happy Birthday, Steven Heller: Last July, Jessica Helfland, a partner, with William Drenttel, in Winterhouse, in Northwest Connecticut, wrote this open letter to the prolific art director, designer and writer. Helfland recalls how she was encouraged by Heller to write herself, when she was the design director at the (now-defunct) Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine, and includes links to the many, many books he’s authored.
Art Imitating Life . . . Imitating Art: This feature by handlettering artist and type designer Michael Doren uses words and pictures to convey how he was inspired by neon lettering for a restaurant/theatre marquee sign (for Canter’s) to create his Deliscript and Deliscript Slant fonts.
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