Victorian Type?
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- Bitlounge0
Original Dada-Era Publications in the International Dada Archive
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/dada/c…
- punch0
That Typology book is a great resource.
If you are looking for antique design references, here are some links you may find interesting:
Lots of victorian letterhead, notes, bills and such:
http://home.att.net/~mforder/hom…
A gallery of various dark weirdness:
http://fantastic.library.cornell…
Victorian undergarment illos
http://www.costumes.org/history/…
cutesy, creepy, kitschy victoriana
- scarabin0
you rock punch, thanks!
- d5ive0
WOW! Awesome resources. Here's a great place for vintage fonts. Browse under the "Gothic" and "Script" categories. Great stuff.
- punch0
No problem.
BTW, check out the Calendrier Magique in particular. Occult art nouveau.
- scarabin0
oh god, look at the typography on that
it's so avant garde
and it's even got paint drips
http://fantastic.library.cornell…
i just can't look at stuff this hot
- scarabin0
bump
- JazX0
http://www.oldfonts.com not sure
- scarabin0
already a huge fan of aubrey beardsley; he's a big influence of mine :)
- fifty500
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido…
got this in college. it's got pretty much everything in there; from the time of cave drawings to the early days of web design.
- d5ive0
Oops. Idiot. I forgot the link.
- nLHb0
n00b!!!
:P
- scarabin0
i just picked up this book and it was really helpful
- kodap0
maybe not much in there of dada, but a lot of material in here to keep you busy browsing and searching