{"id":3493,"date":"2009-09-04T01:09:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T08:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2009-09-04T01:01:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T08:01:59","slug":"john-carreras-pictorial-websters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/3493","title":{"rendered":"Webster&#8217;s lost visual dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"270\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5228616&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5228616&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/5228616\" target=\"_blank\">Pictorial Webster&#8217;s: Inspiration to Completion<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1882107\" target=\"_blank\">John Carrera<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;as a source for creativity in the human brain&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nYesterday, I thumbed thru Chronicle Books&#8217; trade edition of Johnny Carrera&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/n323uu\" target=\"_blank\">Pictorial Webster&#8217;s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities<\/a><\/em>. The video (above) details the inspiration for the project, historical cataloging, Linotype setting, as well as the design and hand binding of the fine press editions. <\/p>\n<p>More <em>detailed<\/em> details are posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quercuspress.com\/websterhome.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Also, check out the very Victorian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0811867757?tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;camp=213381&#038;creative=390973&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=0811867757&#038;adid=1CFPB0HMW8MQTYNR6MX6&#038;\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Cards<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0811867366?tag=stevemehallo-20&#038;camp=213381&#038;creative=390973&#038;linkCode=as4&#038;creativeASIN=0811867366&#038;adid=00NH3K2Q31XEPJRVBGYX&#038;\" target=\"_blank\">Stamp Set.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carrera is the proprietor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quercuspress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Quercus Press<\/a>, based in Waltham, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Webster's lost visual dictionary\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/3493\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictorial Webster&#8217;s: Inspiration to Completion from John Carrera on Vimeo &#8216;as a source for creativity in the human brain&#8217; Yesterday, I thumbed thru Chronicle Books&#8217; trade edition of Johnny Carrera&#8217;s Pictorial Webster&#8217;s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities. The video (above) details the inspiration for the project, historical cataloging, Linotype setting, as well as the design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,50,49,51,55],"tags":[121,126,123],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design","category-education","category-illustration","category-publication-design","tag-design","tag-education","tag-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}