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Can Anyone Identify the Font in this Logo?
I thought this was Didot but the serif on the lowercase “k” is different than either versions of Didot that I have.
Also, the lowercase “w” serifs are connected.
Can anyone identify this for me?
READABILITY ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
This article was brought to my attention:
http://www.reidreviews.com/reidreviews/
(SEE ARTICLES AT BOTTOM OF PAGE, “A Side Note on Macintosh Computers and Text Readability” and “Zooming Reid Reviews With Macintosh OSX”)
So I turned to my favorite type guru for his expert opinion, Steve Matteson, Ascender, Corp. He was gracious enough to answer and allow me to post his response:
“Hi Nancy,
Boy you’ve really stepped in it with this one! :-) The skinny on this
link is that type on screen is truly a big fat mess. There’s a lot of
bad speculation on this blog but a grain of truth. The variation of
rasterizers is much deeper than the author initially suggests.... he
doesn’t even mention Adobe applications which override Apple and
THE LANGUAGE OF DISASTER
The first call was from my assistant who always has on the TV at home, she said something strange had been reported about a plane hitting one of the twin towers, and should we go to work at my studio in the Soho district of lower manhattan, but on the east side (the towers stood on the west.)
Then my husband called from 57th Street and Park Avenue. The man from whom he bought his coffee each morning on the way to work also had a TV on and he, the man, was ranting. Something about a plane hitting one of the Twin Towers.
We had no TV nor radio then, so I said I would call Christine, my assistant. We decided that everything was okay, I called my husband, told him there was no more information, and went in to take a shower.
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FOR DESIGNERS AND TYPOGRAPHERS (THIS IS NOT A JOKE)
1. Displaced Designer, a website, data base created durin Hurricane Katrina which has been re-activated for Gustav. It is more like a clearing-house of information and resources.
http://www.displaceddesigner.com/
2. Forms you might want to fill-out and keep with you during evacuation, they list all of the vital information you will need in case of emergency (like contact information, insurance, software licenses, and etc.) This was prepared by AIGA New Orleans post-Katrina.
(SEE RUReadyTools.pdf BELOW)
3. This document was prepared by AIGA after Katrina. It is available to board members of AIGA chapters, but I am attaching a copy here. It is filled with usefull informaiton about evacuating and restoring your business should a disaster strike.
TEN MORE THINGS TO DO WHILE WAITING FOR GUSTAV, THE OTHER FIVE
6. Arrive at evacuation site safely.
7. Watch the weather channel.
8. Drink.
9. Watch the weather channel.
10. Drink...
TEN MORE THINGS TO DO WHILE WAITING FOR GUSTAV (OR HANNAH...)
1. Go for final walk on the St. Tamanny Trace, record indigenous typography:
2. Look for the big-ole spooky owl that lives there, the water moccasin, rabbits, the pair of young eagles courting last spring and cat squirrels who usually gambole around in the trees. But find more typography:
3. Look at all of the standing trees already compromised from Katrina; all of the bare sticks that had been 80 foot pines and remnants of exposed root balls more than 6 feet in diameter that came down in 2005. But chose to take pictures of typography, instead:
TEN THINGS TO DO WHILE WAITING FOR GUSTAV, post II/IV
6. Try not to go to the Weather channel.
7. Look at nostalgic, old pictures from Katrina:
Recall that if you superimpose the approximate diameter of this sucker onto the north Atlantic coast it would cover Virginia through almost Hartford, CT.
8. Thank John Beilenberg, Kodiak Starr, Jessica Helfand, William Drenttel, Liz Danzico, Kenneth White, Ric Grefé, Denise Wood, Chopping Block and everyone else who helped all of us New Orleans ’creatives’ the last time:
http://www.stepinsidedesign.com/STEPMagazine/Article/28614
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/aiga-launches-disaster-relief-task-force...
POST I/IV: Ten Things to do While Waiting For Gustav
1. Identify favorite type faces. Mine are Akidenz Grotesk, Bembo and Sabon. Do not ask which cut nor foundry, I am too busy freaking out.
2. Buy “Bunny Bread” white, not whole wheat or honey wheat—comfort food is all. (Credit: Lori Reed, AIGA New Orleans president, ex officio.) This is great with peanut butter and jelly.
3. Identify favorite type less than one hundred years old. (Okay, if I must, Helvetica, its older than me but not by much.)
4. Find “Disaster Handbook” we wrote for AIGA post Katrina with all the nifty forms, charts and hyperlinks one might need if the dumb jerk (Gustav) proceeds.
5. Realization that (a.) I can no longer find them on the “web” and (b.) if you think I am going to look for them you are crazier than me.
Mark Making
Daniela Marx, my great collaborator and friend, and I are working on a paper for the upcoming SECAC (Southeastern College Art Conference) conference here in New Orleans.
http://www.unc.edu/~rfrew/SECAC/
Our “paper” is revisionist history of graphic design, specifically we are re-writing the notion that our history—the history of typography and, therefore, graphic design—was made on the fossils of dead, white, western European males. To do this we have video interviewed a dozen practitioners, ages 21 through 96, living and working in south Louisiana. We call this our “design giant” project, because, we believe there are so many unsung heros of type and design, someone should start to document them.
Heraldic Devices and Funky Type and History
Periodically I am called upon to identify and re-use some family artifact that has lost its meaning. Usually this is a sweet, endearing gesture on the part of a family member to rekindle family ties or pride.
I do not do a lot of this type of work, primarily I deal directly with type. But, my clients are smart, articulate and inquisitive people so their wishes usually interest me.
This crest is from a client planning her wedding. It is the icon for women in her family—”loosely the meaning is [that] Kelly females [are like] busy bees [we] make [the] best honey...
...Or, Irish women pick the best men, do the best work, and raise the best children. or something like that.”
