Sin & Win
Sin & Win. From a gallery/antique store last week in Yucca Valley, Ca.
Sin & Win. From a gallery/antique store last week in Yucca Valley, Ca.
I am not going to embarrass the loyal reader who sent this in, but I thought it could lead to a nice new series of educational posts called “Not an Ampersand.” This lovely garden sculpture is actually the musical symbol called the clef.
Anthropologie (Urban Outfitters for grown-up ladies) has them now. Sweet. I tried to see how much they wanted for it but: Sorry, no items were found for the keyword “ampersand “. If you feel this is in error: * Please try a new search using a basic word, phrase or item #. * Browse our [...]
spotted on the street.
Throughout the course of this blog I left the about section more or less blank. I put placeholder Lorem Ipsum text up there and forgot about it. Thanks to Stefán Kjartansson for letting me know, and thanks for linking to my blog on You Work For Them. Oh, and here is a cool neon ampersand. [...]
Simple Bits has an article about usage of ampersands on the web. I am going to add this one to the articles section. He mentions The Elements of Typographic Style. Mandatory reading for anyone who cares about design and typography. Oh, and Neatorama agrees.
From Sander: Hi, Great & website you got here! I came across this website and put in this image with text “&” it gave some interesting results. Good luck! OK. So I tried it… Nifty! Here is another ampersand made of ampersands.
“The result of an afternoon spent playing around with Illustrator.” From Andrea Gandino’s flickr.
Designer and fellow San Franciscan Chris Simmons of MINE writes: Since I was a child I have been fascinated with the ampersand. I used to type my high school papers on a typewriter and that key always stood out to me. “Eh” Be” “Cee” “Dee” “Dollar Sign” “Ampersand?” It was such a strange character and [...]
Also this one. Fun With Letraset. Via Speakup.