Hasta La Ideas

The hunt for typography’s biggest fan just ended at the door of Post Typography. Aside from running a successful design studio in Baltimore, teaching a class on experimental typography and naming their punk band after a typographic glyph (Double Dagger), Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals just published their first book, Lettering and Type. The book release party, “Fan Letter,” took place at MICA and another will happen at The Cooper Union in New York on November 17. The kickoff featured 26 presentations by artists and designers who waxed on about their favorite letter or typographic symbol. The hour long event incorporated motion graphics, storytelling and music performances from an eclectic cast of characters. Check out this video to scratch your typographic itch.

Note: Bruce and Nolen’s welcoming address fills the first 7.5 minutes of the video and the video cuts off at the letter T.

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