july 2023, week 3

today i discovered searchsystem, which has a huge archive of historical material (posters, logos, technology, architecture, etc) that can be sorted by year! it only goes back to 1950 (mildly disappointing to me, as a person who loves historical ephemera from the late 19th/early 20th century especially), but it's a really impressive resource and i wish i'd found it before doing my last comic project, which involved a lot of 1950s research.

a friend posted on bluesky last week about morbid anatomy's online lecture events, and i immediately signed up for five of them. a bunch of them are free and they cover really interesting topics! i went to the first one i signed up for (a lecture on depictions of blackness in mid-1900s comic books) earlier this week and it was fascinating; i'm super excited for more.

on the subject of lectures: cooper union has a ton of recordings of past typography lectures posted for free online that i'm excited to dive into.