Requiem for Victor Hammer birthdayposter This fourteenth issue contains opinions

This fourteenth issue contains opinions

Influenced by the Art Deco movement

and not pictures of things

But no sacrifice will need to be made—because this book is loaded with his nutty lettering (and an authoritative and easy-to-read essay by Nicolete Gray)

poster art

Requiem for Victor Hammer birthdayposter This fourteenth issue contains opinionsWe have some bad news: the Austrian born American painter, sculptor, printer, and typographer Victor Hammer has died. He died fifty seven years ago, but still. We thought you should know. The good news is that Joe Blumenthal printed this burial service in 1967 at his famed Spiral Press. We cant tell if this was printed from Blumenthals Spiral type or his Emerson and we dont care to spend ten minutes trying to figure it out. But the whole thing is a