Natalie Schorr

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Talking Typography

I enjoy typography, which strangely enough, never comes up in casual conversation.

I spent some time with my good friend Mr. Thesaurus to come up with a list of words that were appropriate for the piece. You’re probably wondering what the piece is, so I’ll go ahead and tell you it’s called Echo Chamber. If it doesn’t make sense, then you probably are one of those people on Parlor. Not that there’s anything wrong with being conservative. Just with being naïve.

Let me not digress. I pulled out the usual suspects for interesting letters: 1953 Fortune Magazine, True - the Magazine for Men, Early 1960s McCalls Magazines, and early 1970s Playboy Magazine, for that bit of funk. And then I started composing, which is not as easy as it looks. Typography takes a lot of time.

By this point, I had cut the whole thing out, and adding the lettering started to bring it together for me.