l wonder
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We got some great books this Christmas – Simon Garfield‘s lovely Just My Type, the latest 8 Faces (not technically a book), and I Wonder by Marian Bantjes – an exquisite treasure chest of a book, which coincidentally features a great rant about the letter L:
“WHAT… the fuck… is that? Surely no two worse letterforms exist than these duds – I mean, c’mon… two lines and a line? (…) This is what happens when Modernism is allowed to run rampant.”
Well, aside from making us laugh, that rant pretty much sums up why we started this blog in the first place. It was a real struggle to find a letter L that we liked enough to take prime position in our company logo.
L is possibly the most neglected and under-explored letter in the alphabet so, in 2011, we’ll continue to put on a pedestal that rare, exciting and elaborate beast we know as ‘one hell of an l’… beginning with this intricate Bantjes illustration.
Happy New Year!
i wonder