Instagram Lately: May 2014

Behind the ScenesCalligraphy
Written By Molly Suber Thorpe
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Clockwise from top left:

• Photography studio Vera in August applied the logo I recently designed for them onto wooden USB drives. (Photograph by Vera in August.)

• The process of envelope addressing from a pile of handwritten lists and Excel sheets to a neat stack of calligraphed envelopes.

• Lyrics from a client’s wedding song calligraphed in black with shimmering gold accents.

• A snapshot of my May 17th Boston workshop.

• White on black—my all-time favorite combination!

• A passage by my favorite author, Virginia Woolf, from The Waves. When I took the snapshot of it outside on my porch, the railing cast a beautifully-appropriate shadow across the page.

Molly Suber Thorpe

A calligrapher, teacher, and author, Molly’s work spans both modern lettering and historical script. She writes about calligraphy and handwriting as creative disciplines—shaped by tools, technique, habit, and attention—and considers what it means to write by hand in a digital age. In addition to designing custom lettering for clients, she creates books, free resources, and online classes for people who want to develop their calligraphy and handwriting, whether as a creative outlet, a professional skill, or both.

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