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Posted by Celeste in
6 Jan 2013 — 3:24am
6 Jan 2013 — 3:24am
Hello Typophiles
Does anybody have some basic biographical information about Joel Kaden, designer of the light and medium weights of ITC American Typewriter in 1974 ? Thank you very much.
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6 Jan 2013 — 7:05am
Check the "Best Answer" reply at this link for more info:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061109142243AAbj7h8
HTH
6 Jan 2013 — 7:14am
I've already tried it, I'm afraid — two of the links are dead, one is irrelevant, and the last one (to the Linotype website) doesn't bring much… But thank you anyway.
6 Jan 2013 — 7:39am
I'm sure you've found that there was a Joel Kaden, born Feb 12, 1914, SSN issued in New York State, who died in Orlando, FL on July 12, 2003.
Some of the genealogy sites (most with 3 days to two weeks free one-time trial access) indicate that they have more information. At least one site indicated that there was an obituary in the Orlando Sentinel, but at the newspaper's site I did a search for the name with a date range of all of 2003 and it found nothing.
6 Jan 2013 — 9:16am
No, actually, I hadn't found that — this is definitely a lead and I will investigate that. Thank you very much.
St.
PS : if this is the man, he would have been 60 when he designed American Typewriter. Amazing.
6 Jan 2013 — 11:11am
From what I've found, he worked with ITC's Tony Stan on American Typewriter, who lived from 1917-1987 or 1988, similar ages, which of course proves nothing.
6 Jan 2013 — 11:34am
Can you imagine these two sixtysomethings plotting American Typewriter ? Funny.
6 Jan 2013 — 11:52am
Why do you seem so astounded that people past their 20's can accomplish something?
6 Jan 2013 — 12:25pm
It's definitely not what I meant : my idea was more that the whimsical qualities of American Typewriter are not readily associated with old, seasoned professionals. But those were the 1970s, so who knows ?
6 Jan 2013 — 5:47pm
And you don't think that seasoned professionals like George Burns, Groucho Marx, Don Rickles, Milton Berle, Phyllis Diller, and on and on can have and professionally use and capitalize their whimsical qualities?
6 Jan 2013 — 7:06pm
Better Betty White than the examples cited.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/betty-white-snl-muffin-vi_n_570...
7 Jan 2013 — 12:20pm
In fact, American Typewriter is pretty sophisticated. I couldn’t imagine a novice type designer working on it.
Besides this, I think I will more or less start doing something good when (and if) I get older (I am 43).
7 Jan 2013 — 12:33pm
My father says a man's 40s is his golden age. But I feel I've mostly wasted the first 4 years of those...
hhp
8 Jan 2013 — 9:47am
You have wasted too much time on Typophile, that goes for sure! LOL
8 Jan 2013 — 10:12am
But I've learned so much, and not just about fonts but people too...
hhp
8 Jan 2013 — 11:08am
I was kidding… :-)
8 Jan 2013 — 11:49am
You might have been kidding but there is truth in it! :-/
hhp
9 Jan 2013 — 3:54am
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