Ruskin kenjiromanhands Here’s Horace Pippin in 1940

Here’s Horace Pippin in 1940

and as a legendary educator at the Basel School of Design from 1968 to 1997

one can’t help but learn about meat production

This rational “Nieuwe Kunst” (New Art) was fueled by the theosophical movement then in vogue

Ruskin kenjiromanhands Here’s Horace Pippin in 1940When one works on books about slabs, stencils, shadows, and scripts, one needs a lot of examples around. Like, when Louise Fili was working on Scripts, she picked up this ad for French papermaker Louis Muller & Sonss Ruskin sheet. Check that leopard! And spot that spotted script below! A neat thing from the collection of Louise Filiand this is the very item reproduced on pages 58 and 59 of Scripts. Historic!