Sitting in the doctor’s office the other day, I read about Amos Kennedy in Thicket Magazine. I love his work! I have a poorly cultivated but rampant affection for the art of letters and typography and I’m a sucker for letterpress designs. I also really like his tone.
From the “Buy Posters” page of his website:
Printing is what we do. You send the text and a check, and go home and pray. We do not know what will happen until we are at the press. The design of your poster is determined in real time. Sometimes we produce beautiful posters and at other times we produce BEAUTIFUL posters.
Love it.
Totally unrelated: I cannot wait to see this movie. Nor this one. Two of my favorite stories, ever. So exciting.
Ah, friends. Pregnancy sucks my brain. I have quite a few posts in the works — on the art of wabi-sabi, on missing my dad, on how much I dislike pregnancy, and on a music blog that a few friends are starting (and about which I’m pretty excited) — but for now all I got is this: pointing at random things and grunting, “Me like!”
Had no idea, about Where The Wild Things Are — just goes to show, I always need Keslers to keep me up with entertainment culture. Looks fantastic — sounds like a decent soundtrack ; )
Don’t sweat the lack of brain cells. It’ll take a while after Moonbeam arrives, but very slowly they will return to a somewhat-close-to-normal functioning ability.
I LOVE APK’s stuff and have run out of walls in my apartment! I still have three or four posters to frame, too.
Katy-
I saw the Where The Wild Things Are trailer for the first time in the theater and just lost it. Anne was sitting next to me and she cried, too, so I can’t blame it on my hormones. That Spike Jonze.
CJ-
I’m gonna have to get me some of those!
how exciting!!!! i had heard about Alice (which looks like a feast for the eyes), but WTWTA, too !?!?!? one of our faves!
great post!
I just watched the trailer again. And I cried again. I can’t wait.
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