AMERICAN TYPES artist's books: 2-volume set, waterless offset lithography and blind emboss on French-folded pages, case-bound, foil-stamped, ed. 500, 1997. Available here.
AMERICAN TYPES
The text is found, as is the font. Also the code numbers and font sizes. In fact, each canvas represents nothing more or less than a detail from a type specimen catalog, The Book of American Types, published by The American Type Foundry of Elizabeth, NJ in 1941. Since type has no native scale, I made each canvas in two sizes, then applied this logic to the two-volume set of books I made of my project.
AMERICAN TYPES two volume set, waterless offset lithography and blind emboss on French-folded pages, case-bound, foil-stamped, ed. 500, 1997
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AMERICAN TYPES (detail) 1997
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AMERICAN TYPES project in Portland studio, 1995