Sixteen Handsome Ampersands
From Designer/Writer/Researcher Kate Andrews.
From Designer/Writer/Researcher Kate Andrews.
This is kind of an overgrown monster of an ampersand. It is kind of beautiful and ugly and interesting in the way a kudzu-choked tree is. Or maybe it actually reminds me of those mutant pesticide frogs with the extra legs. Anyways, it kind of defies the “ampersands I like” and “ampersands I dislike” categories [...]
The first entry in Pentagram Papers 1, ABC: A Dictionary Of Graphic Cliches; Compiled by Philip Thompson & Peter Davenport. Pentagram London, 1976.
An onion ring that almost kind of resembles an ampersand. From Eli the Bearded’s photo in the Ampersandland photo pool.
Squarish-roundish eurostyle ampersand. J & D Liquors. This is the faded, sunny side of the street. J & D Liquors. On the darker, not so sunny part of the street. S & B Liquors. There are quite a few liquor stores in my neighborhood. Neon ampersand behind a very dirty window. I really love this [...]
The head of the design department at my old school The Creative Circus sent me this. I made crystals out of ampersands….and their negative spaces. See? I LOVE ampersands….used to only look at them and the lower case ‘g’ when I was picking out typefaces…..
This unusual looking ampersand comes from a shoe & bag repair shop near the Stockton tunnel in San Francisco. Note the bottle of Jack Daniels wedged into that pipe.
Spotted in West Berkeley.
Ampersandland is an awesome flickr group photo pool with a variety of examples of well, ampersands.