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The Alphabet Cities . Book and Prints Collection

Created by Mr Cup

The Alphabet Cities Collection is a project to explore the legacy of insurance maps typography in a book and limited edition prints.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Better late than never
about 1 year ago – Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 10:41:52 AM

Hope you are fine. Believe it or not, the latest large poster is finally printing! I should have them in early October and start shipping soon after. 

Thanks you for your patience. 

3 new books in the making

I have been working on 3 new books collection for the past weeks and I just launched it on Kickstarter!

Discover and support the project here

I hope you will follow me in this new adventure.

Thanks for your support

Fabien @iammrcup

Alphabet Large print sent next week...
about 2 years ago – Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 03:28:53 PM

Hope you are fine. This quick update to let you know that the Alphabet large prints are finally in my hands and I can start shipping them at the end of next week. Sadly, the Cities large print is not ready yet and I hope it will be done very soon now new printer accept to print them. But he needs to find time to print them. 

So if you are waiting for the Alphabet print and order only that, it will be sent next week. If your order includes the Cities large print, I will send both prints together so you need to wait a little more. 

Thanks for your patience and support. 

Fabien /  @iammrcup / mrcup-shop.com

2 large prints : good and bad news (but solution is coming)...
about 2 years ago – Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 03:04:21 PM

I hope you are fine. Sorry to haven't updated you before. I would never imagine these 2 prints would be so long to produce. So, let's start with the good news! 


The Alphabet is finally printed... 

What the printer did not expect is that many details and it was complicated for him to do it, but he did it!   Some photos...

I will have them shipped to me very soon and so on shipped to you just after...


... but not the cities poster!

Sadly the Cities poster has even more details and they just tell me they can not do it on their machine. I found a solution with my other letterpress printer which has a bigger machine and we are working on a solution... I update you as soon as I have more info.


Address change 

If you are waiting for a large print and need to change your address please contact Anaïs at [email protected]


Pre-order shop for the new books

The reprint of the Alphabet Cities book was a great success, and I am now working on the 2 new books. If you missed the campaign you can pre-order the books and a lot of other things in this shop. If you just want the 2 new books there is a special bundle with them. 

Visit the Type Art Archives Pre-order Shop


Here are some pages of the Atlas book!

Visit the Type Art Archives Pre-order Shop


Thanks for you patience and support

Fabien @iammrcup mrcup-shop.com

Large Prints update / Type Art Archives Books Collection
over 2 years ago – Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 03:27:51 PM

Hope you are fine. 


I am really sorry to haven't updated you about the large prints. To explain to you the delay, printing with so many details needs a lot of work from the printer. They asked my all original files from the maps to get sure they get the best of it. It took me a lot of time to provide them with the files and they get a lot of other orders on their side. Anyway, we have now set a delivery date for the end of July. 


On the other hand, the book is sold out for weeks, I decided to do a reprint as a lot of people ask after it now they saw photos of it. But I get ideas for more books so instead of just reprinting, I launch a new Kickstarter to print not one, but 2 more books. The project is now live, and you have a special early bird option for the 2 new books.  



Check the project here. 


Thanks for support and patience. 


Fabien mrcup-shop.com

Still working on the large prints...
over 2 years ago – Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 12:56:10 AM

Hope you are fine. We are still working on the large print, at last, the Alphabet and Cities names one.  The NY ones have been sent.  The reason why is longer is that it is a composition with a lot of details and I want to be sure, as well as L'atelier letterpress who is printing them, they have the quality we want. 

But I do not want to let you wait more for the other items. So starting today I will ship the other rewards, books, postcards, and small prints. The large print will come when ready. 

Thanks for your patience and support. 

Fabien www.mrcup-shop.com