After retirement from church embroidery at the end of the 1980s, she was free to indulge her passion for experimental lettering, working in paper pulp, on silk and then on a Mac (a 70th birthday present from her son).
Short on baseball expertise, Meyer calls Jonah, the White House liaison, for guidance ("They're all in the same outfit and they've all got beards.... Oh, wait, they've got numbers"), and then babbles to Tommy Hunter, the Orioles starting pitcher, "Isn't it nice how the lettering works on these tops?" After one take, Hunter was both exuberant and self-doubting.
Recognize that truck lettering and vehicle lettering works best when larger fonts are used.
The typeface, Sharp Grotesk, was designed by foundry Sharp Type, inspired by hand-drawn poster lettering and the work of Swiss designer Adrian Frutiger.
Ira Coyne, Japhy Witte, Sean Barton, Sven Lynch, and Forrest Wozniak stuck with brush lettering and work as traditional sign painters around America (except Sven, who now runs his shop in Stockholm, Sweden).
Tiravanija's work features enamel lettering on a recent New York Times article with the headline, "Justices Overturn Texas Abortion Limits," which the founders of Sexy Beast gave to him during a studio visit to discuss the benefit.
"A Way With Words: Text in Art," works using words, lettering or numbers.
Writing and lettering are appreciated in these works for their formal properties as much as for the information they convey.
March 31 through April 22. "A Way With Words: Text in Art," works using words, lettering or numbers as subjects, design elements or to convey information.
"A Way with Words: Text in Art," an exhibition of works using words, lettering or numbers as subject, design element or to convey information.
