A curation of words, objects, and ideas maintained by Brandon Alvarado , a human living in Minneapolis who writes and designs and thinks. @SwissSerif | brandonalvarado.meTumblr (3.0; @swissserif)http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/3817f1316fc8a3af87e7ab6a7dc69cdf/tumblr_moml6fDMSK1qbmuzjo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>One day I’ll mature enough to develop a nice rich and robust text face. </p> <p>But for now I guess it’s just a whole lot of swashy ribbons. </p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53339642525http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53339642525Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:42:15 -0500typographytype designAribbonswash<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/12f980a0881fea21f0c01b9f4378f276/tumblr_momkjr0VCb1qbmuzjo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Grabby, 2013</p> <p>typewriter and pencil</p> <p>4” x 4” print</p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53338890490http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53338890490Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:28:00 -0500typographytypewriterillustration<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/19063196cea88d5770c7dd32d9a953e2/tumblr_mom7yzTw7w1qbmuzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Someone is afraid of the typewriter.</p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53320146300http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53320146300Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:56:59 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ef5d365dc178122ea3b7b63344506d51/tumblr_moltocVLTJ1qbmuzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Printing errors that look kind of cool.</p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53298085102http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53298085102Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:48:11 -0500“It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”<br/><br/> - <em>Italo Calvino</em>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53279702196http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53279702196Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:02:46 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/71cef32950667819f5b33c62a7984015/tumblr_molfsnjQK01qbmuzjo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53278955093http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53278955093Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:48:23 -0500bookchesscalvino<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4bea15efa23029eb526909373bad6bfa/tumblr_mokp1rSgFv1qbmuzjo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Collage</p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53256370680http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53256370680Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:10:00 -0500collagedesignart<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a4a28285ca524b6bd7f37d48b782b438/tumblr_mohtxzk8Vw1qbmuzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Meet my new compadre.</p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53118506217http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/53118506217Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:03:35 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/86ee9f92a9229d08faf1d8ee6b53d402/tumblr_moersxx2OC1qbmuzjo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Making comics</p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52984754446http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52984754446Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:24:33 -0500drawingcomicsartportrait<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/567db03d108066edf966c821a32bf173/tumblr_mocjvzXgCq1qbmuzjo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Pompadour-able</p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52887408094http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52887408094Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:38:23 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/4ecac2ad75a3a30b1f8d1862c89bd749/tumblr_mochz4AzEt1qbmuzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52884521381http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52884521381Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:57:04 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/399d67de302ac8146cf6ba24f3c8c7f8/tumblr_mochpc306F1qbmuzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52884126546http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52884126546Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:51:11 -0500<p>1,000</p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52878014604http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52878014604Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:16:49 -0500<a href="http://blog.keenancummings.com/post/52867365239/i-dream-about-a-kind-of-criticism-that-would-try">Field Study: I dream about a kind of criticism that would try not to judge but to...</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://blog.keenancummings.com/post/52867365239/i-dream-about-a-kind-of-criticism-that-would-try">fieldstudy</a>:</p> <blockquote> <h3><span>I dream about a kind of criticism that would try not to judge but to bring an oeuvre, a book, a sentence, an idea to life; it would light fires, watch the grass grow, listen to the wind, and catch the sea foam in the breeze and scatter it. It would multiply not judgments but signs of existence;…</span></h3> </blockquote>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52867484059http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52867484059Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:03:06 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4672a4782e1df4b9021e79c74d7b3952/tumblr_moc379E5N81qbmuzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A bit of collage to get the day started.</p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52866391935http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52866391935Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:37:57 -0500“A man said to the universe, <br/> ‘Sir, I exist!’<br/> ‘However,’ replied the universe,<br/> ‘The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.’”<br/><br/> - <em>Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Honor</em>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52844632558http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52844632558Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:11:39 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/28628f8b35863848b62c427f6b46f81a/tumblr_mob6ishHHr1qbmuzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Study for ‘Tower of Babble’. I’ve got the dada feels.</p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52834553762http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52834553762Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:52:04 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c97c4eb9e3cb0c86264e9f4ca26a755a/tumblr_moapsl17ka1qbmuzjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Drawing letters to help me think. #drawing #lettering #typography</p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52809793627http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52809793627Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:50:44 -0500letteringdrawingtypography<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/117387e3fb7a2f677f99fd5c59010fc1/tumblr_moaa5mLOEo1qbmuzjo1_500.png"/><br/> Colored spaces in shades of grey, 2013<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/30f29aba253f2da3a0ab7be71376e26c/tumblr_moaa5mLOEo1qbmuzjo2_500.png"/><br/> No man is an island, 2013<br/><br/> <p>Finally all set up in the new apartment and back to making prints. </p> <p><em>Colored spaces in shades of grey, 2013</em></p> <p><em>no man is an island, 2013</em></p> <p><em>4” x 4” prints</em></p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52789524663http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52789524663Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:12:00 -0500typographytypewriterpoetry<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/20f49858c1f54dda01f885a364093b1c/tumblr_mo91xlNjWN1qbmuzjo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>I am pretty sure that, at the time of its creation, the designer thought: </p> <p><em>“F*#k legibility. It needs <strong>more</strong> ampersand.”</em></p>http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52741267705http://blog.brandonalvarado.me/post/52741267705Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:17:00 -0500typographyampersandpoetica