"typography is what language looks like"
[ellen lupton director at the mfa program at the maryland institute college of art]
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___ ex-libris stands for ___
typography [designed, typed, sprayed , found or lost], books and libraries [on-line, off-line, under-ground], quotes, texts [or sexstes], visual culture research and feminism [french, american, israeli, radical] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . //
___ About Me ___
- merav perez
- typographer, researcher and educator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . //
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___ about the origin of the term 'ex libris' ___
ex libris comes from the latin for 'of books' or 'from the books of.' it has been used extensively as a phrase of introduction for the personalized name plates of scholars, book lovers, and libraries for over a millenia. when a book was purchased and added to a collection, a premade stamp or piece of parchment would be applied to the inside cover of the book stating: ex libris (owner's name). the artwork, styling, and rendering of this further personalized the book's owner. over time, these name plates came to be known simply as "ex libris."