docnadSep 30, 2024
Jacket design by Seymour Chwast
Kelly Lange's Copy of Deeper Into Movies by Pauline Kael https://attemptedbloggery.blogspot.com/2024/09/kelly-langes-copy-of-deeper-into-movies.html #PaulineKael #SeymourChwast #Movies
Kelly Lange's Copy of Deeper Into Movies by Pauline Kael

Understanding the world one cartoon at a time. And other high culture. New Yorker artists are royalty here.

pablolarahAug 9, 2024

🔴 The Daily Heller: Mark Twain and Seymour Chwast on War
By Steven Heller @thedailyheller at @printmag
#illustration #MarkTwain #SeymourChwast #war

https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-mark-twains-words-on-war/

The Daily Heller: Mark Twain and Seymour Chwast on War

Two maestros of wit and satire come together for the first time.

PRINT Magazine
Letterform ArchiveJan 15, 2024

Seymour Chwast, Bestial Bold, Push Pin Graphic, No. 84: Not Quite Human Issue, Push Pin Studios, New York, May/June 1980. Bestial Bold https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/84714/bestial-bold is an adaptation of Chwast’s typeface, Blimp https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/32748/chwast-blimp (Photo-Lettering, 1970); he simply added eyes and teeth.

“ⓊUncopyrighted 1980 by Push Pin Studios, Inc. Unauthorized use will be met with indifference.”

#SeymourChwast #Alphabets #Fonts #Typefaces #Lettering

Bestial Bold in use

For Push Pin Graphic’s “Not Quite Human” issue (1980), Chwast adapted his typeface Blimp (1970) by adding creature-like eyes, and grinning teeth. Nick Curtis’ Weedy Beasties NF (used for sample) is based on Blimp and Bestial but is not a faithful (nor authorized, perhaps?) digitization. The ‘P’ is far too narrow, for example.

Fonts in Use