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“how do you tell a girl you really like her eyes?” demo thing

cyberbully mom club

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Typography Tuesday

These specimens of type ornaments and borders are from a facsimile of a ca. 1760 type specimen sheet laid in the 1983 catalog Type Studies: The Norstedt Collection of Matrices in the Typefoundry of the Royal Printing Office by Swedish museum curator Christain Axel-Nilsson (1934-2012), published in Stockholm by Norstedts Tryckeri. The specimen sheet displays ornaments by German typefounder Johann Gottfried Pöetzsch, who was manager of the Berling Type Foundry in Copenhagen from 1753 until his death in 1783. The foundry was eventually acquired by Swedish Printer Johan Per Lindh (1757-1820) in 1814, whose business had its origins in the Royal Printing House founded in 1526. After Lindh's death, the printing house and type foundry were acquired by Swedish printer Per Adolf Norstedt (1763-1840), who established the long-standing printing and publishing house that produced this catalog. Norstedts Förlag is Sweden's oldest, continuously-operating book publisher.

This specimen sheet was facsimiled from the only extant copy in the Nordiska Museet in Stockholm, and many of the matrices for the types shown here are preserved in the collections of the museum. The Norstedt type foundry operated from 1821 to 1980, but one third of the Norstedt matrix collection, including those for the ornaments shown here, were imported by Johan Per Lindh in 1814.

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“Happiness is only real when shared”

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how everything is feeling

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girl in red | i wanna be your girlfriend

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Glow

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grassy path in sea breeze

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The sun was warming my body.

The sun was warming my skin.

And I was in love with the city.

And I was in love with him.

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House plants (1975).

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Interesting perspective inside the Suzhou Museum. Designed by award-winning Chinese-American architect, Ieoh Ming Pei. It combines modern geometric shapes with Chinese motifs. (via http://www.flickr.com/photos/seanportfolio/3300102839/)

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too lovely to speak of

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1925 Mobile library. From The New Art Deco, Art & Culture, FB.

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1. Look at the world through metaphor, seeing one tree in terms of another.

2. Let two words bump up against another Or seesaw on a single line.

3. Tell the truth inside out Or on the slant.

4. Remember that grammar can be a good friend And a mean neighbor.

5. Let the poem rhyme in the heart, Though not always on the page.

“Five Tips On Writing A Poem”, Jane Yolen

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Howl and Sophie doodle