Jeanyee Wong in the Alphabet Thesaurus Nine Thousand

In 1960, Alphabet Thesaurus Nine Thousand was published by Photo-Lettering Inc. The women letterers included Daisy Alcock (page 229), Shirley Smith (page 249), Jeanyee Wong (pages 226, 551) and Margaret Yakovenko (page 525). Page one listed their names with their signatures on the opposite page.

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Jeanyee Wong’s “Genie” Typeface

 

Further Reading and Viewing
David Ismar Archive, photographs; click Next to see her cards
Letterform Archive, The Women of Photo-Lettering
Museum of Chinese in America

Jeanyee Wong’s “Genie” Typeface

“Genie” was released by Photo-Lettering Inc. and advertised in  

Art Direction, July 1958.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Genie

The Fountain Overflows

Rebecca West

Viking Press, 1956

Book Club Edition

Jacket design

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oriental Meditation

Edited by Harold Whalen

Peter Pauper Press, 1976

Lettering and illustrations

 

 

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Child of the Northern Spring

Persia Woolley

Inner Circle, 1987

Map

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Intertextuality

Intertextuality: New Perspectives in Criticism

Credit

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AIGA Award Certificate

Bookbinding & Book Production, March 1947

... The award was hand-lettered by Jean Yee Wong on a sheet of Invictus paper, imported from England, and supplied by Stevens-Nelson Paper Co. ...

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