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Gustavo Ferrari

20 May 2019
Typography, Visual culture

Sam Roberts reports from Tokyo Letterheads, an international ‘meet’ for letterers and sign painters

Last month’s Tokyo Letterheads event ended with an auction. One of the items (won by…

30 July 2017
Design education, Illustration, Typography, Visual culture

A report from the informal annual gathering of signwriters, pinstripers, calligraphers and other lettering experts. By Helen Ingham

Last month the ‘Letterheads’ met for their annual meeting, which this year took place in…

7 July 2016
Design history, Illustration, Visual culture

A vernacular folk art has become synonymous with the visual identity of Buenos Aires. Gustavo Ferrari explains this extraordinary craft

Fileteado porteño is a traditional Argentinean artform, which began as simple decoration on the trade…