lettering warm-up: walt whitman, “year that trembled and reel’d beneath me,” 1865

whitman’s everywhere here in south philly. he spent time in philly and lived, kissed oscar wilde, and died in camden, across the walt whitman bridge, a stone’s throw from my house.

i was gonna photoshop this — that’s why there are multiple takes on the lettering of his name and one of the commas is whited out — but i liked it better as a raw scan. one more of these, with epigrams instead of a poem, is forthcoming.

2:32 pm  •  30 January 2012  •  10 notes