David Shields

@19cwt.bsky.social

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Designer & typographer & archivist & professor & (accidentally?) historian. I’m author & designer of the monograph _The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: A History and Catalog_ published by UT Press. Image focused @19cwt-obscura.bsky.social

Wood type border with square and star pattern printed in black in on cream uncoated stock.

Numeral 5, set in 50-line Gothic Condensed on back cover of c.1890 Morgans & Wilcox specimen catalog, held in Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University.

Cactus with yellow bloom.

Overlapping typographic forms from 1854 Wells & Webb wood type specimen catalog. Cream colored stock with low contrast tonal value letterforms.

Paperback cover. Black silhouette of crow filled with book title and author name set in a geometric san serif centered on a yellow field.

Donald Judd concrete box high contrast shadow against bright blue sky.