What is it about hand-made letters that utterly rocks our world? Are we just so bored with reading and seeing everything digitally nowadays? Or is it because working with type is such a huge component to our jobs as designers that our fascination with typography never ceases? Or maybe it’s just so dang refreshing to see a unique interpretation of the banally familiar. For whatever reason, spicing up the alphabet sure makes looking at letters way more exciting than it ever was in kindergarten!

Jillian Mackintosh curator of the recently launched San Francisco-based art exhibition, The Letter Collector, at Gallery Hijinks adds, “I think hand-made letters have always been popular for artists and letter enthusiasts since the invention of the press…”

Read my article on Print Magazine’s design blog, IMPRINT.