[a letter from Wolfgang Weingart]

You know how when presidents sign a piece of legislation they write each letter of their name with a different pen so that more people can get “the” pen that was actually used for the signature? Wolfgang Weingart sorta took the same approach when writing letters to friend. In this 1986 letter to his pal Tom Strong he used three markers and a pen to let Tom know that he’d be in New Haven and would stop by the office. A sweet, pre-digital document from one design legend to another. (FYI: Tom designed the highway signs on Connecticut’s Merritt Parkway. When we were young, the Merritt is where we fist encountered self-flushing urinals and toilets. It felt like the hight of sophistication. We think of Tom every time we’re at a rest stop on the Merritt—or, anywhere, really.)