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Recent New Yorker article about type designer?
Posted by bowfinpw in
14 Jul 2006 — 12:16pm
14 Jul 2006 — 12:16pm
Someone told me they had seen an article about a type designer not too long ago the The New Yorker magazine. Anyone know who it was about? What issue it was in? (Apparently the New Yorker doesn't believe in having an online index to their magazine issues, so I found nothing with any searches there or with Google.)
Thanks
- Mike Yanega
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14 Jul 2006 — 12:23pm
http://typophile.com/node/16495
14 Jul 2006 — 12:55pm
14 Jul 2006 — 1:04pm
Thanks Justin. That must have been it, although he didn't think it was that long ago.
Chris, nice poster, but 'Trajan'? Why not 'Galliard', or something designed by Carter?
- Mike Yanega
14 Jul 2006 — 1:30pm
Chris - you are one of the best things to happen to Typophile in '05.
Mike's got a point. Mantinia would be perfect here. The anti-Trajan by the Man himself.
14 Jul 2006 — 2:05pm
pure genius!
14 Jul 2006 — 2:33pm
Thanks guys.
Why Trajan? Two reasons: one, it was the font used in the original "Rockstar" movie; two, it is such a cliché movie font. I guess I was going more for comedy than for something that was done by Matthew (three, I don't have Mantinia:-) although now I see how gorgeous it is, I am tempted to buy it!).
"...best things to happen to Typophile in ‘05." Does that mean I have outstayed my welcome? :-)
ChrisL
14 Jul 2006 — 2:44pm
You continue to be a great thing. But you can't always be the best. The best thing to happen in '06 was image upload.
14 Jul 2006 — 2:44pm
Oh wait. That was 2005 too. Uh. I got nuthin'.
14 Jul 2006 — 2:50pm
It's only July - the best is yet to come!
14 Jul 2006 — 2:56pm
Thanks Stephen!
and Image upload gets my vote too!
ChrisL
PS: and Si gets my vote for his "Backyard Sportsman" TV stint! Si, you da' man! Now you can run for governer of California :-)
14 Jul 2006 — 6:59pm
On a similar note there's a Canadian publication called Azure that had an interview with Jonathan Hoefler a couple of months back I seem to recall.
15 Jul 2006 — 8:03am
' The best thing to happen in ‘06 [or '05] was image upload.'
Now you have hit on a sore point for me! Image upload only works with new operating systems. Mac OS9 doesn't cut it any more, but the 'old' Typophile could handle it just fine. It's techno-discrimination I tell you!
- Mike Yanega
15 Jul 2006 — 12:58pm
I hear ya, Mike, but in this cruel democracy we gotta benefit the vast majority at the expensive of the few. I'll bet the population of Typophile OS9 users doesn't exceed 5%.
Sadly, you're worth more than the average user. Who's going to donate an OS X Mac to the great Mr. Yanega!? I'll donate the time to train him!