Volume 5–2.pdf - U&lc
Volume 5–2.pdf - U&lc
Volume 5–2.pdf - U&lc
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and other places of business, symbolic devices like our cigar-store<br />
Indian and the red-and-white barber pole were not at all decorations,<br />
they were necessities. Carved Chinese images indicated tea<br />
shops, and illustrated 'Beau Brummels' directed attention to tailors'<br />
establishments, et cetera. How those days could have used Mervyn<br />
Kurlansky!Kurlansky; a partner at Pentagram in London, certainly<br />
knows his way around a symbol when he sees one — as his letterforms<br />
presented here so handsomely attest. U&<strong>lc</strong> has printed a<br />
good many unusual alphabets in past issues, but this gets our vote<br />
as one of the most inventive and original. There's apparently nothing<br />
at all that won't make for an exotic set of ABCs if the creator's<br />
eye is keen enough. Mervyn Kurlansky's clearly is. Krazy Kaps we<br />
call them and crazy caps they are. We hope you find them as prodigious<br />
and amusing as we do.<br />
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