Worker-Dandyist.
Talent(lessness) behind Proletkult Graphik.
Listener of boss sounds from swing to garage to punk to folk to Northern.
Bad, bad Lindy hopper.
Proudly proletarian Red.
Lover of the nylon-clad and high-heeled female leg.
Hater of almost everything but especially averse to fashion (as opposed to style), post-modernist nonsense, the destruction of language, laminate flooring and wankers who leave dogshit everywhere.
(I will also moan periodically about the state of modern day trousers and the idiots who wear them.)
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suicideblonde:Dorian Leigh photographed by Milton Greene in 1950
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Charlie Parr & Mikkel Beckmen
I chatted the guys up after the show and asked them if I could do their portrait the next day, they agreed so I got...
If you insist on getting spliced (and I am twice guilty of this folly) then you should at least know what to wear. If sartorial convention on your big day is not your bag then please consult this chart in order to know which rules you are breaking. Whatever you do, bin the brocade and scrunchy tie.
From The Esquire Fashion Guide, revised edition, 1962.
Revised edition, 1962.
From the enjoyable but insane book: Female Deviations and Lesbian Practices.
Razionale from the Nebiolo type foundry, 1935.
From The Encyclopaedia of Typefaces by Berry, Johnson, Jaspert; third edition, 1962.
From Adam, Vol.9 No.10. October 1965.
Victoria Valentino in Playboy, September 1963.
Gillian Tanner in Playboy, April 1963.
Playboy, April ‘63.
From An Approach to Type - John R. Biggs, 1961.
Second edition, 1961.
I find it odd that it’s impossible for most of us plebs to get our posts included in the #typography tag. Is there a type mafia who only allow certain hipsters and other dross in?
From Playboy, October 1963.
