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uwmspeccoll · 5 months

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Typography Tuesday

Last month, the Milwaukee Public Library's Arts & Media Department held its first Art Book Club session. Intended as an informal art book appreciation club that meets once a month in the Art, Music, and Recreation room, each session explores a different theme by looking at the wide variety of art materials in the collection. The collection is historical, non-circulating, and vast. I attended and spent an hour and a half mesmerized by the array of luscious materials presented.

There was design, architecture, fashion, and much more. As a type nerd, I was especially drawn to the several late 19th- and early 20th-century type specimen books on the tables. Here, for example, are some pages of chromatic initials by various European and American companies from Schriften Atlas, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer and published in Stuttgart by Julius Hoffmann in 1898.

MPL held its second Art Book Club session on the theme of "Animals" last night, but I missed it because I was conducting an evening instruction session. Dang! But I'll be attending future sessions when I can and I'll keep y'all apprised.

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #chromatic type #type specimen books #type specimens #initials #type display books #Schriften Atlas #Ludwig Petzendorfer #Julius Hoffmann #Milwaukee Public Library #Art Book Club #19th century type

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freemoneyfree · 3 months

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Highlights from the monthly Art Book Club at Milwaukee Public Library- Central. (next one is 2/26!)

Images 1-2: Aperture 229 Winter 2017 (feat. Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose revisited)/ Aperture 241 Winter 2020

Image 3: from The Spirited Earth: Dance, Myth, and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific by Victoria Ginn

Images 4-6: from Nan Goldin / I'll be Your Mirror

#gender performance #photography #art books #nan goldin #cindy sherman #luc sante #aperture #i'll be your mirror #milwaukee public library #art book club #masking #future gender

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learnelle · 19 days

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Book club paintings vol. 1 ♡ The Love Letter (1911) by George Lawrence Bulleid and Miss Auras, The Red Book (1907) by John Lavery

#cottagecore #bookblr #reading #bookish #learnelle book club paintings #dark academia #light academia #cozycore #cosycore #art details #art detail #art history #Books & libraries #booklover

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joytri · 3 months

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oh to find beauty in ordinary things

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mh2o29 · 6 days

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oh I KNOW they were menaces in boy scouts you cant prove me wrong

this drawing was born during a debaser book club read-along done by the wonderful @atitanbitch in the debaser discord..... imma just leave this screenshot here

creds for this idea belong to @oceanicjessie you are a genius

#scream 1996 #billy loomis #stu macher #scream #stuilly #scream fanart #my art #this was just a sketch but I had to draw it #and color it #been coloring more lately #and feeling pretty good about it #you guys wanna join the discord soooo bad #come to book club #please its so fun #ok byeeeee

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sweattyspaghetti · 21 days

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“💋”

(Sorry for the bright colours squad)

#my art #art #illustration #fight club #the narrator #the narrator fight club #tyler durden #soapshipping #when the chemical burn scene…#when Tyler in the book kissed the narrator’s scarred kiss hand.#(goes feral)

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paperstreetlocal · 9 months

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#that one book chapter i think #fight club #fight club narrator #tyler x narrator #narrator fight club #fight club 1999 #soapshipping #my art #art

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juniemunie · 3 months

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Broskis ts!underswap is so fun. every single part of it is *chefs kiss*

I went in completely blind and honestly i think it was the best move i could have made

i love how its just swapped roles but not personalities so it leads to stuff like this its so creative

Anyways have some more self insert sansnomaly (and chara)

#sansnomaly #junie art post #*adds chara into the “puppetted children thirdwheeling sansnomaly” club*#sans x reader #sans x self insert #utmv #undertale au #ts!underswap #CAN I JUST SAY WHILE SANS IS GREAT HERE #TS SWAP ASGORE IS JUST AS AMAZING?#LEGITIMATELY. THE ENTIRE RUINS IS SO WELL DONE ESTABLISHING ASGORE AND WHAT HE DOES THERE #that i was so. so. reluctant to leave him.#i connected and sympathized with him more than i ever could with toriel in the original. hes so darn sweet its painful.#and from what ive “heard” in the uh. geno route... smarter too.#anyhoo. back to sans.#i wont lie im not that big on comic book heroes. im not that uh savvy #but SPOILERS!!!!#i love how cleverly they implemented the alter ego with crossbones and sans #also seing sans pull new pranks really reminded me how exasperating he is back in UT #every ridiculous line and bs he pulled was so... *sigh* i understand papyrus now #unfortunately for him thats not gonna stop me from loving him any less #crossbones' personality specifically took me a while to like. but he grew on me. (like a barnacle on my ass)#but seeing him admit he liked being crossbones was super cute as hell omg #whatever makes you happy sans #being crossbones also rises to the most ridiculous ideas too so. cant complain

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frizz-bee-2 · 3 months

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dudes being dudes

#richie tozier #eddie kaspbrak #reddie #it 2017 #it movie #losers club #it #it 1986 #it 2019 #artists on tumblr #art #artwork #my art #it book #digital art

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irlmumrik · 4 months

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i've never read frankenstein,

#this sketch is SUPER messy but I can't be bothered lolz #moomins #snufmin #snufkin #moomin #art #snufkin cant stop longingly gazing at his bf during book club smh get a hold of yourself

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uwmspeccoll · 5 months

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Typography Tuesday

Last week, I showed you some initials I encountered at the Milwaukee Public Library's first Art Book Club gathering in October. Those initials were from an 1898 specimen book, Schriften Atlas, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer. This week I'm showing some alphabet sets from another collection I encountered there. These specimens are from Vignettes, lettres, chiffres, monogrammes et rehauts modernes, published in Paris by Les Éditions Guérinet, R. Panzani, successeur in 1931. The specimen book includes alphabets by several designers. The sets shown here are by A. Bardi and P. Picaud, whom I have not been able to identify. Still, the letter forms are quite enjoyable.

The next Art Book Club session at MPL will be on Saturday, December 16, 2023, 1:30-3 pm, with the theme of "Technology."

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– MAX, Head, Special Collections

#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #type specimen books #type specimens #type display books #alphabets #Vignettes lettres chiffres monogrammes et rehauts modernes #Les Éditions Guérinet R. Panzani successeur #Art Book Club #Milwaukee Public Library #20th century type

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catwafers · 8 months

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