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thicks and thins, lines and shadows
 

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from advertisement (5/6 page) for World Views, Bloomingdale’s new shop for designer sunglasses. The New York Times, March 21, 1989 (A5)
art director/photographer unknown.
full view

have used this in teaching typography: curves, weights.

The sexiest thing about glasses is that they come off.

ex David Shields, Optical Illusions, Vogue (April 1995): 120, 124
reprinted in his Remote, 1996
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12 July 2012
tags: glasses; sunglasses; lines; shadows; NYT; David Shields