Alexander Girard by House Industries

"House Industries presents the oeuvre of Alexander Girard with a suite of fonts and objects. Sunny faces beam from a set of childrens’ blocks; hand-made dolls speak volumes about relationships among designers; wise men preach tolerance in a nativity set; snakes, fish and foxes form a puzzling menagerie; an illustrative legacy challenges the intellect with a 72-piece memory game."

[#1 posted by jennybean42 , February 23, 2009 5:55 PM]

I must be missing something.
a $320.00 memory game? Huh??

[#2 posted by Boeotian , February 23, 2009 7:00 PM]

Nice music in the video!

The blocks and the puzzle are great, too.

[#3 posted by sirk , February 23, 2009 7:44 PM]

I love this stuff! It is beautiful and I was looking at buying a couple of these... What's that #1? $320.00?

I love my kids, but I guess they will have to live in the land of unoriginal font blocks. I will teach them to use their imaginations and pretend they are as cool as Girards.

[#4 posted by siradambeck , February 23, 2009 8:08 PM]

I liked the shot of Marilyn Neuhart in front of all of her dolls stuck to the wall. She looks like she stepped out of 1912... which isn't a bad thing.

[#5 posted by gobo , February 24, 2009 5:18 AM]

I can almost understand a $320 memory game.. but Goodwill-remnant cotton dolls for $100 each?

Sigh. At least their fonts are still top-notch.

[#6 posted by pidg , February 24, 2009 10:07 AM]

Really? The first thing I thought when I saw the fonts was "Microsoft Creative Writer, circa 1993".