Miracle Spaghetti Ampersand
Rob sent me this. Here’s an ampersand that created itself out of a piece of spaghetti that fell onto the stove top and dried while I was putting it into the bowl.
Rob sent me this. Here’s an ampersand that created itself out of a piece of spaghetti that fell onto the stove top and dried while I was putting it into the bowl.
Here is a nice ampersand from the ITC American Typewriter and ampersand loving Kramer’s Books & Afterwards. Careful, annoying music starts playing on their site as soon as you click. Oh and why not visit Jerimiah’s site. He took these pics.
After seeing my earlier post, Eileen sent in her ampersand tattoo: and her sister’s:
Some people care so deeply about ampersands, they have them permanently drawn on their skin. Flickr user letsread wrote me this: it’s ITC caslon 540 italic from the book figgs & phantoms by ellen raskin–which incorrectly identifies the ampersand as garamond Also she has a blog. Janet also sent me hers: my friend just directed […]
No Friends Forever : Liam Devowski Liam Says: Hey, love your blog, maybe you’ll get a kick out of this “ampersad” i think hes upset because nobody knows how to draw him, so “+” gets all the action. His site, NEON GRAY has some pretty cool stuff. I like this nice .gif demonstration as well.
For the Love of Type. I love this but I might like this better.
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…..
My friend Diana has hand-crafted some ampersand buttons that are affordable enough to be purchased with the money floating around in your pocket and/or couch. Buttn on Etsy
Kramer’s Books & Afterwards. An ampersand loving bookstore in Washington D.C. An ampersand-focused college and a guy who works there. An ampersand from Mexico And A Bit of Fry and Laurie: from petty.me.uk Hugh Laurie (of TV’s ‘House’) and Stephen Fry had a fantastic sketch show in the UK in the 90’s. See this review, […]