#art book club

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Last month, the Milwaukee Public Library's Arts & Media Department held its first Art Book Club session. Intended as an informal art book appreciation club that meets once a month in the Art, Music, and Recreation room, each session explores a different theme by looking at the wide variety of art materials in the collection. The collection is historical, non-circulating, and vast. I attended and spent an hour and a half mesmerized by the array of luscious materials presented.

There was design, architecture, fashion, and much more. As a type nerd, I was especially drawn to the several late 19th- and early 20th-century type specimen books on the tables. Here, for example, are some pages of chromatic initials by various European and American companies from Schriften Atlas, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer and published in Stuttgart by Julius Hoffmann in 1898.

MPL held its second Art Book Club session on the theme of "Animals" last night, but I missed it because I was conducting an evening instruction session. Dang! But I'll be attending future sessions when I can and I'll keep y'all apprised.

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

[freemoneyfree]

Highlights from the monthly Art Book Club at Milwaukee Public Library- Central. (next one is 2/26!)

Images 1-2: Aperture 229 Winter 2017 (feat. Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose revisited)/ Aperture 241 Winter 2020

Image 3: from The Spirited Earth: Dance, Myth, and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific by Victoria Ginn

Images 4-6: from Nan Goldin / I'll be Your Mirror

[wilsonmybeloved]

heard we were fiddlestanning

you know the drill..

(full image under cut)

[hatepotion]

father's day gift from matthew or something

[tyrannosarahsrex8]

Local dorito tries to scare a depressed wet cat of a man, gets snapped in half

Like. Oh? You don’t want to admit that you killed your dimension? What to Feel Their Fear As They Died? That’s what you get for making Mable sad.

[yumbles]

Cover of the second volume of the graphic novel that Molly Ostertag wrote and i drew, Dungeon Club: Time to Party! it's coming out on July 9!!!

the series is about a group of 8th graders playing D&D. we delve into their in-game adventures and see how their real world experiences shape the campaign. you'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll want to play your own session lol! it's a lot of fun and i love drawing every page.

I colored this cover, but the interior colors are by Amelia Allore and they are SO beautiful. please check it out, u gotta see it!!

[joytri]

oh to find beauty in ordinary things

[anorlondos]

I've decided to make portraits for each of Miquella's followers in the DLC, so here's Ansbach and Leda (my two favorites!!)

I'm probably going to go back and paint over these sometime (after I sketch all 7), but that will take a while, so I figured I'll post the doodles as I make them :)

[kiat-b-saguru]

Forgotten Fairy of Dragon Fire

Watercolour, ink, watercolour ink & digital

[the-lonelyshepherd]

yellowjackets airbud au. everything is exactly the same except lottie is a dog like airbud.

started as crack then it got serious. it actually works so well expect more

[uwmspeccoll]

Typography Tuesday

Last week, I showed you some initials I encountered at the Milwaukee Public Library's first Art Book Club gathering in October. Those initials were from an 1898 specimen book, Schriften Atlas, compiled by Ludwig Petzendorfer. This week I'm showing some alphabet sets from another collection I encountered there. These specimens are from Vignettes, lettres, chiffres, monogrammes et rehauts modernes, published in Paris by Les Éditions Guérinet, R. Panzani, successeur in 1931. The specimen book includes alphabets by several designers. The sets shown here are by A. Bardi and P. Picaud, whom I have not been able to identify. Still, the letter forms are quite enjoyable.

The next Art Book Club session at MPL will be on Saturday, December 16, 2023, 1:30-3 pm, with the theme of "Technology."

View other type specimen books.

View more Typography Tuesday posts.

– MAX, Head, Special Collections

[juniemunie]

Broskis ts!underswap is so fun. every single part of it is *chefs kiss*

I went in completely blind and honestly i think it was the best move i could have made

i love how its just swapped roles but not personalities so it leads to stuff like this its so creative

Anyways have some more self insert sansnomaly (and chara)

[mh2o29]

oh I KNOW they were menaces in boy scouts you cant prove me wrong

this drawing was born during a debaser book club read-along done by the wonderful @atitanbitch in the debaser discord..... imma just leave this screenshot here

creds for this idea belong to @oceanicjessie you are a genius

[sweattyspaghetti]

“💋”

(Sorry for the bright colours squad)

[frizz-bee-2]

dudes being dudes

[anim-ttrpgs]

A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club: Triangle Ageny

We are gearing up to play Triangle Agency in the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club! If you have ever wanted to check out Triangle Agency but haven't had the time or a group to do it with, join our book club! Signups are running from now until September 30th. Target date for the first session is around October 17th, 2024, but scheduling is super flexible, and also you don't have to buy the game to join, even though we encourage you to support the developers (we have made them an estimated $180 in sales already at the time of writing this)

If you want to support us and our mission to save the TTRPG hobby from total monopoly domination, you can join the book club through the link above even if you aren't signing up to play, you can support us on patreon, buy (or just freely download) the beta of our debute TTRPG Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, or just send us a tip on ko-fi!