Designers Louise Fili and Steven Heller compile 60 years of stencil type from 8 countries and reveal why the primitive style still reigns. The stencil is one of the world’s most primitive printing ...
The first U.S. patent (no. 1,767) for “settable-unit stencils” was filed in 1840 by Edwin Allen, who designed stencils of individual letters that could be joined together to form words. This and other ...