—Mark Twain

—Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Paris, France

The art group Maentis is known for its satirical and sometimes corporate-based visual gags. Their latest project involves a culture-jamming redesign of some familiar logos to make a statement about the brands behind them… see more here.

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A sampling of lovely posters by Dutch artist Koen van Os (1910-1983)…

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A first its kind, The Lost Type Co-Op is a pay-what-you-want type foundry.

Begun a little over two years ago by Riley Cran and Tyler Galpin, originally in a whirlwind 24 hour adventure to distribute a single typeface, Lost Type has blossomed into a full fledged foundry, distributing fonts from designers all over the world.

Users have the opportunity to pay whatever they like for a font (you can even type in ‘$0’ for a free download). 100% of funds from these sales go directly to the designers of the fonts, respectively — Lost Type takes no cut of sales, and holds no funds.

—George Orwell, 1984

—Mahatma Gandhi

—Horace

(somewhere in 18th-century Italy)

I stumbled across these lovely images today… from an 18th century Italian book entitled Scoperta della chironomia, ossia, Dell’arte di gestire con le mani by Vicenzo Requeno, a Spanish monk living in Italy. The book examines the gestural techniques as recounted in various Greek and Latin authors, concentrating on representing numbers with the hand.

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—Rumi