{"id":1455,"date":"2011-08-01T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2011-08-01T14:25:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T21:25:30","slug":"alex-steinweiss-1917-%e2%80%93-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Alex Steinweiss, 1917 \u2013 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just having returned from vacation, I discovered that while I was incommunicado Alex Steinweiss\u2014one of my heroes and the inspiration for my Steinweiss font\u2014had passed away. So I&#8217;d just like to add my voice (belatedly) to the chorus who have recognized him as one of the giants of 20th century design, who has influenced countless people in the design and illustration fields, and brought delight to millions of others through his beautiful work. The world is indeed a lesser place without him. R.I.P. Mr. Steinweiss.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1456\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/default_407a_ce_steinweiss_05039_1107181803_id_485380.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1456\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1456 \" title=\"default_407a_ce_steinweiss_05039_1107181803_id_485380\" src=\"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/default_407a_ce_steinweiss_05039_1107181803_id_485380.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"967\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Promotional card sent to Steinweiss&#39; clients, ca. 1952. Image courtesy of Taschen Publishing.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just having returned from vacation, I discovered that while I was incommunicado Alex Steinweiss\u2014one of my heroes and the inspiration for my Steinweiss font\u2014had passed away. So I&#8217;d just like to add my voice (belatedly) to the chorus who have recognized him as one of the giants of 20th century design, who has influenced countless people in the design and illustration fields, and brought delight to millions of others through his beautiful work. The world is indeed a lesser place without him. R.I.P. Mr. Steinweiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[24,29,97,125,128,161,310,347,351],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-notes","tag-alex-steinweiss","tag-alphabet-soup-type-founders","tag-design","tag-font","tag-font-design","tag-illustration","tag-steinweiss-script","tag-typeface","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alphabetsoupblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}