http://typophile.com/node/16440 Comments for "Bruce Alcock" en http://typophile.com/node/16440 <p><strong><a href="/wiki/Indices" class="wiki">Indices</a> : <a href="/wiki/Designers" class="wiki">Designers</a> : Bruce Alcock</strong></p> <p>Bruce William George Alcock was born in 1964 in Corner Brook, on Newfoundland&#8217;s west coast and raised in that city, as well as St. John&#8217;s, the capital of Newfoundland. Despite the fact that he was an avid visual artist from childhood, he obtained a degree in Music (tuba performance) at the University of Toronto. His academic career continued with another degree in comparative literature. </p> <p>He designed the charming hand-lettered font <a href="http://www.fontshop.com/?fuseaction=catalog.fontpackage&amp;searchby=manufacturer&amp;displayfontid=FF.7072.0.0">Soupbone</a> as an ideal restaurant menu typeface, but it has proved more versatile than that, seeing use in multiple contexts, including advertising, children&#8217;s books, and broadcast.</p> <p>Bruce is currently a commercial and animation director at Global Mechanic, a production company he founded in Vancouver BC (<a href="http://www.globalmechanic.com" title="http://www.globalmechanic.com">http://www.globalmechanic.com</a>).</p> wiki Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:46:07 -0800 nwoolridge 16440 at http://typophile.com