Figurative Alphabets

Written by Typographica on January 22, 2005

The gorgeous and articulate Giornale Nuovo posts a nice collection of alphabets made of human bodies.

4 Comments

  1. Hrant says:

    Nice page. But I’m shattered that he didn’t mention this phone diary I once bought that has a couple doing all the letters, naked, underwater – although really quite tastefully, I’m sorry to say…

    hhp

  2. shelley says:

    we had some funky people do some human-disco lettering at last year’s bad type party – go to stbride.org to see the bad type conference page and then to view the pdf.

  3. pdhunt says:

    I’m glad that this article referenced another on the erotics of type. I read this some time ago when I was doing a google search on Mrs. Eaves. I’ll never look at that gy ligature the same…

  4. Hrant says:

    You should see the 3D version of Modula Ribbed (in “Dimensional Typography”).

    hhp

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