POSTCARDS AMUSEMENT…

About

Born and raised at the Almanaque magazine’s office, this Amusement  with Punctuation Marks happens when Alexandre O’Neill, standing before the precious “treasure box” of designer Sebastião Rodrigues, opened his ear to the embarrassed silence of those typographic elements and started recording its voices. The result would be published in 1960 in the book Abandono Vigiado, with this dedication: “To Sebastião Rodrigues, who enjoyed himself perfecting this amusement. To the composer and printers who worked on this book. ”

One of the most noble tributes that literature has paid to our design.
José Cardoso Pires

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AUTHOR

O'Neill (Alexandre), dark skinned Portuguese, raven's wing hair was born on December 19, 1924, in Lisbon, and died on August 21, 1986 in the same city. In addition to the poetic craft, Alexandre Manuel de Castro Vahia O'Neill Bulhões worked regularly in advertising, allowing him to, as he used to say, "live from verses and survive from advertising." Founder of the Surrealist Group of Lisbon, that he would leave later, Alexandre O'Neill always lived from his writing, whether in advertising, television, cinema, theater or as a columnist for several newspapers, signing regular columns in the Diário de Lisboa, A Capital, as well as in magazines, as it happened in historical Almanaque magazine (1959-61), where he was part of the distinctive editorial team that included Sebastião Rodrigues, José Cardoso Pires, Louis Sttau Monteiro, Joao Abel Manta, among others, and where one day it was born this "Amusement with punctuation marks" that we now publish.