Category Archives: quotations

Aldous Huxley quotation

2013-05-29 ruling pen and C4A quotation from Aldous Huxley’s novel, Those Barren Leaves. I picked up and read this book during a recent trip to Israel.

Folded ruling pen and C4 Speedball nib on a sheet of 2010 Diploma Parchment (marked “bad batch” — my newer batch is much better to write on) using Boku-Eki sumi bottle ink.

 

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Wicked’s Wizard on History

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Dinesen on the salt water

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Faulkner on GTD

Watercolor detail from a handmade book I’m working on. Quote done with leftover watercolor from the book. The lettering lost a lot in the tweaking process, but I don’t have time to go back and fix it.

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Oscar Wilde on Art

This quotations was inspired by the image displayed with Alex Savakis’ interview with Martha Ericson.

The lettering looked like such fun, I channeled my inner 8-year-old and used a multi-colored gel pen. Halfway through I wished was writing on black paper, and later — voila! through the miracle of Photoshop — I had been.
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Tolkien on Love of Learning

In honor of Tolkien Week.

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Baudelaire on Design

This is a typeface I designed a couple of years ago. It was designed very badly, I might add — so badly, in fact, that I pretty much had to kern every single pair of letters to get it to look halfway decent. And I missed kerning the BJE in “subject”, evidently.

Here is a scan of the Zig-markered original lettering that I used to make the typeface. Here’s the typographic poster I blogged originally, using this typeface when it was just completed.
I don’t think Baudelaire would approve this interpretation of his words :)
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Santayana on Life

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Arthur Balfour on Religion

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Herman Hesse on Beginnings

For my Jewish friends in honor of Rosh Hoshanah, which begins this evening.
I’m experimenting with square pastels as a broad-edge writing instrument.
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