From A Hamburger Today | Last week Serious Eats's Alaina Browne blogged about Value Pack, the typeface made from hamburger meat. Today, I bring you the man behind the meatfont, Robert Bolesta What inspired you to create Value Pack? It was made for a typography class I was taking at Pratt Institute. The project was to make an alphabet out of any found object. I wanted to do raw meat, and hamburger was the easiest to mold and shape into letter-forms. What, if anything, does Value Pack say to the observer? It was intended to be just a type study, but I suppose there are other levels of meaning, if you choose to read into it. I made it before...
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On Serious Eats burger site A Hamburger Today Zoe Hamburger is this week's Q&A subject. Yes: Zoe Hamburger.. Heh. Q: So you've heard a lot of burger jokes in your life—any memorable ones? What's been the cheesiest? A: Aside from you asking what the cheesiest burger joke has been? When I was younger the cable company sent the bill to Bacon Double Cheeseburger instead of Peter W. Hamburger. My family thought it was hilarious. You have to have a good sense of humor if your last name is Hamburger....
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