Man Ray painted his first letter “Y” in 1923 as an homage to his friend Yves Tanguy. Even earlier, he contemplated creating an alphabet of Rayographs (photograms) but gave up the idea as too lengthy.

The 32 year old concentrated his task in the Australian state of Victoria and took just six months to find every letter, from an A-shaped field to an E-shaped building. The time-consuming challenge ...

Trinidadian artist and graphic designer Nicholas Huggins recently completed an interesting experiment. There's an annual online project called 36 Days of Type, which “invites designers, illustrators ...