The Ampersand

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Show & Tell

Design duo Jo Murray and Dominic Bell have recently setup Shape Studio. Pictured is Show & Tell, a newspaper for the BCUC Graphic Design and Advertising final show in 2006. Shape Studio via It’s Nice That and sent in by Klaartje.

Only sorta ampersand related

But I like this pixelly fellow. Fun times. Abby from the University of Minnesota Student Unions & Activities. I work in the marketing department of Student Unions & Activities at the University of Minnesota. Judging by our name, you can probably guess why I would like to submit content. Our entire brand is based around […]

Ouroboros Ampersand

Yeah I didn’t know what the hell an Ouroboros was until I did some google research, but this ampersand that was submitted kind of looks like the ampersand version of that. Is it just me? Check it out. Sent in by ampersandrew.

Microscopic Ampersands

Jakes writes: So I was screwing around in Bio today, with the USB microscopes. A handout we’d been given had a nice large ampersand in the title (comic sans, I believe, but that’s not the point). I put the two together, and have uploaded some shots of ampersands under a microscope, at 10x magnification, to […]

Gocco Ampersand Card

After checking out your blog, I was pretty inspired to do my next set of gocco cards with an ampersand theme. I looked through all of the ampersands I could find in about 300 fonts and narrowed it down to a diverse set of about 20. I then used these small fonts (12-20pt) to create […]

xkcd

I am not nerdy enough to understand XKCD, but I still read it anyways. Thanks to Harris for sending it in.