I once found a set of Speedball pen nibs as a kid. I was familiar with conventional pen and ink usage, but had never seen nibs like this before. It wasn’t until taking a calligraphy course in college (with Professor Don Anderson, author of “The Art Of Written Forms”) that I ran across them again and had a chance to try them out. The times have evolved a lot since then and so much of the calligraphic art is becoming lost to digital convenience, but leafing through some vintage
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I once found a set of Speedball pen nibs as a kid. I was familiar with conventional pen and ink usage, but had never seen nibs like this before. It wasn’t until taking a calligraphy course in college (with Professor Don Anderson, author of “The Art Of Written Forms”) that I ran across them again and had a chance to try them out. The times have evolved a lot since then and so much of the calligraphic art is becoming lost to digital convenience, but leafing through some vintage
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I once found a set of Speedball pen nibs as a kid. I was familiar with conventional pen and ink usage, but had never seen nibs like this before. It wasn’t until taking a calligraphy course in college (with Professor Don Anderson, author of “The Art Of Written Forms”) that I ran across them again and had a chance to try them out. The times have evolved a lot since then and so much of the calligraphic art is becoming lost to digital convenience, but leafing through some vintage
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I once found a set of Speedball pen nibs as a kid. I was familiar with conventional pen and ink usage, but had never seen nibs like this before. It wasn’t until taking a calligraphy course in college (with Professor Don Anderson, author of “The Art Of Written Forms”) that I ran across them again and had a chance to try them out. The times have evolved a lot since then and so much of the calligraphic art is becoming lost to digital convenience, but leafing through some vintage
Celebrating 105 Years First published in 1915 by Ross F. George, The Speedball Textbook is the superlative resource for artists and letterers of all ages
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I once found a set of Speedball pen nibs as a kid. I was familiar with conventional pen and ink usage, but had never seen nibs like this before. It wasn’t until taking a calligraphy course in college (with Professor Don Anderson, author of “The Art Of Written Forms”) that I ran across them again and had a chance to try them out. The times have evolved a lot since then and so much of the calligraphic art is becoming lost to digital convenience, but leafing through some vintage
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Letterers go gaga over Speedball ephemera. It may touch a DIY chord. Or it’s perhaps the most primal way of creating commercial lettering that piques the passion of folks like me. I’ve run a few DH columns on Speedball aesthetics (here and here) and so has J.J. Sedelmaier. We all say the same thing: “I once found a set of Speedball pen nibs as a kid.” Anyone, like me, who fancied themselves or wanted to be a letterer got hold of some Speedball nibs, a textbook, some paper and
#bookofkells #uncial #celtic #letterforms One final example also from a noteworthy text the famous SPEEDBALL TEXTBOOK for Pen and Brush Lettering. I have the 20th edition from the 1970s and I think its up to about the 30th by now? Even if you don't do your own calligraphy the Speedball textbook is worth looking at. I still have a set of Speedball steel nibs which I rarely use but cherish! Please support this blog via PayPal.me/JulieVaux
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Images from vintage Speedball Text Books
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