The entire Gatsby manuscript, one poster
The text of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby on one big poster. Available here.
Found via Alice Woodruff
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Merry Oldsmobile 3
Photograph by Kent Hall.
Taken at the 2007 Gatsby Summer Afternoon, held annually by the Art Deco Society of California.
Merry Oldsmobile 2
‘Cleavage, surrealism, and jaunty music – Yep, it’s a Fleischer cartoon!’ -IMDB user review
Before Betty Boop and Popeye: 1932 advertisement for Oldsmobile from the great Fleischer animation studio.
With nifty sing-along, bouncing ball animated lettering.
Type gifts
‘Part 1 features unique gifts and decor. Part 2 will feature typographic prints and posters, while Part 3 will showcase some of my favorite fonts themselves.’
Just My Type’s 2010 Typographic Gift Guide. Start with Part 1. And here’s Part 2.
And don’t forget to pick up a few letterpress originals at Just My Type’s Etsy store.
Found via Delve Withrington
Alta Helvetica mug
Helvetica on a mug, set in my Alta California font.
Dark brown text, vintage baked enamel-like styling. Great for sweet tea, moonshine, or hell, even prison-grade pruno.
Snag it here.
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