Kramer’s
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.
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.
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.
An onion ring that almost kind of resembles an ampersand. From Eli the Bearded’s photo in the Ampersandland photo pool.
For the Love of Type. I love this but I might like this better.
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.