R. L. Bruckberger
Viking Press, 1959
Book Club Edition
Jacket design
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Thursday, January 1, 2026
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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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
David Ismar Archive, photographs; click Next to see her cards
Letterform Archive, The Women of Photo-Lettering
Museum of Chinese in America
Monday, November 24, 2025
Jeanyee Wong’s “Genie” Typeface
“Genie” was released by Photo-Lettering Inc. and advertised in
Art Direction, July 1958.
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Friday, September 12, 2025
Friday, September 22, 2023
Oriental Meditation
Edited by Harold Whalen
Peter Pauper Press, 1976
Lettering and illustrations
(Next post on Friday: The Fountain Overflows)
Friday, July 14, 2023
Friday, July 7, 2023
Intertextuality
Friday, June 30, 2023
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. ...
(Next post on Friday: Intertextuality)
Friday, June 23, 2023
Jeanyee Wong’s Marriage License
On October 7, 1946, Jeanyee Wong and Waie Lew
applied for a marriage license in Manhattan. They
married the following day at the Municipal Building.
(Next post on Friday: AIGA Award Certificate)
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Life with Letters—as They Turned Photogenic
Edward Rondthaler
Hastings House, 1981
Page 76: 1951
The there was a lull, broken a few years by an unprecedented renaissance in calligraphy. This brilliant renaissance, encouraged by professionals such as Paul Standard, Jaenyee Wong [sic], Ismar David, Paul Freeman, Guillermo Rodriguez-Benitez, Bob Boyajian, Sandi Governali and others, reached far down into grass roots America. It reached down even to the Croton high school where I, caught at last by the calligraphic bug, took a night course in company with other enthusiasts of all ages.
(Next post: Jeanyee Wong’s Marriage License)
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
China Boat Boy
Malcolm Reiss
J.B. Lippincott Company, 1954
Calligraphy and illustrations
(Next post: Jim Lee’s Chinese Cookbook)
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Friday, September 17, 2021
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
seventeen
Jeanyee Wong hand-lettered the seventeen logo. It’s not clear how many people were involved in the logos’s development. On the contents page, the staff included Helen Valentine, editor-in-chief; George E. Neil, art editor (the third issue said technical editor); M.F. Agha, art consultant; and Maria Ojrzynska, art assistant. Some of these people may have been involved with the logo’s design.
The first issue had the cover date September 1944.
The Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, October 17, 1944, said a trademark submission was filed on August 22, 1944.
(Next post: Harold Nicolson, The Later Years 1945–1962)
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
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