Still, in the late 1990s, she had what she called "a soul-searching moment," and started making engraved stationery as a way of satisfying "those haptic needs — the physical side of graphic design," she said.
In later years, Lennon would jokingly remind her of the comment, and later had a silver plaque made engraved with her words.
He continued with Madman's Drum (1930), Wild Pilgrimage (1932), Prelude to a Million Years 19333), and Song Without Words (1936), the last of which he made while engraving the blocks for Vertigo.
"You might imagine that a smooth surface would be ideal to make an engraving, but very often it's rough surfaces … Sometimes the markings actually use the contours, cracks and fissures as part of the ornamentation.
He has had a trophy made and engraved commemorating the 500th race, which will come at the Ashenfelter 8K Classic in Glen Ridge, N.J. "He's the first to say that what he does now is a shadow of what he once did," said Tom Fleming, a former New York City Marathon winner and a longtime friend of Carnevale's.
Except for his date of birth and parentage, very little is known about Martin the Younger, but since his father was an engraver, it has been assumed that Martin followed in his father's footsteps, and that he made the engraving of Shakespeare.
When he got tree home, found it full of surgeons concrete, which makes poor engraving.
What seems merely descriptive in Denis Johnson's spare and straightforwardly narrated short novel Train Dreams becomes emotionally evocative, a beautifully made word engraving on the page.
Then recently one of his great-great-grandsons, Douglas Stiles, a lawyer from Waukegan, Ill., discovered an April 1906 article in The New York Times in which Mr. Dillon described making the engraving.
In 1937 Steuben scored a coup by persuading a clutch of world-famous artists -- among them Henri Matisse, Isamu Noguchi, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dalí, Georgia O'Keeffe, Grant Wood and Jean Cocteau -- to make designs that were engraved on special glass vessels.
