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Winter 2023 + 2025 in B&W on 35mm

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Handprinted Alphabet, Evelin Kasikov, 2011 "Handprinted Alphabet consists of 26 lowercase sans-serif letterforms, 4 colours and 26773 stitches. It is an experiment in handmade type, 'printed' with needle and CMYK-coloured threads.

This is my first fully CMYK-embroidered alphabet. My intention was to create stitched letterforms considering typographic characteristics: legibility, coherence, weight and contrast. I wanted to avoid manipulating existing character sets – this is not halftoned Gill Sans or Helvetica. I began by setting up a 4-layer halftone grid with 10 crosses per x-height. The screen for each colour is set at a different angle: Cyan 105˚, Magenta 75˚, Yellow 90˚ and Black 45˚. The challenge was to construct a coherent character set upon this grid. Each letter consists of four layers, Cyan being printed first and Black last. The equal blend of stitched CMYK colours results in handmade Registration Black."

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Severance, Season 2 Episode 10: Cold Harbor, End Credits by Teddy Blanks

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masafusa shibuya, satin, organdy, and silk thread, from “fabric and needlework illustration”, 1994.

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The last bus, Nick Turpin

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Kristin Bye (Brooklyn, NY & Portland, OR) Poster for Obit: “a documentary giving a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the NY Times obit writers as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.”

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