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TYPE BATTLE: Week 9 (20 March)

... PST on Friday. Anyone may submit a design response to the challenge. You may enter as often as you wish. Post anytime. Critiques and ... function includes pushing, reworking, molding, incising, carving, etc..... Many people have written about the mystical ...

Forum topic - Christian Robertson - 19 May 2006 - 6:54am - 56 comments - 0 attachments

(x) Cooper Looser - Midas {Mark S}

... night took a photo of it: I really like the "bravado" - to me this is a more charming Cooper Black. I'd like to find ... I suppose in ancient times I would have been consigned to carving minutia, if so lucky. And, likely, I would have been very happy doing ...

Forum topic - hrant - 13 Jun 2007 - 7:15am - 64 comments - 0 attachments

Robert Bringhurst

... , a frequently-updated book widely considered to be the definitive handbook for contemporary typographers. He also extensively ... with letterpress printer Peter Koch on Carving the Elements , a commentary on the Fragments of Parmenides . He ...

Wiki - negativespace - 14 Feb 2007 - 6:26pm - 0 comments

The good ship Notanic

... glyph pair, or come from non-digital sources such as stone carving, calligraphy etc. Who's first in line? Have you changed the Have you changed the whites? Yes, but barely—it could be less that ...

Forum topic - ebensorkin - 7 Nov 2006 - 4:18pm - 129 comments - 0 attachments

Africa poster

Hey, what do you guys think of this poster, the graphics, and/or any of the issues associated with it (the West's neglect ... one in text and one that Africa is a juicy steak ready for carving up (btw many of the responses didn't seem to get the rotting concept). ...

Forum topic - ER - 6 Nov 2006 - 6:34am - 114 comments - 3 attachments

The Romantic period (18th & 19th C)

Does anyone know of any typefaces from the Romantic period besides Bodoni? Or where I could go about finding such ... does more than Scotch. hhp >? Bringhurst, Elements, The >? Bringhurst, Elements, The Romantic Letter, 7.2.7 ... lapidary-derived serif being pushed technically by stone carving and engraving into a region that the pen cannot write, and type will ...

Forum topic - vinylcut - 9 Nov 2005 - 2:57pm - 76 comments - 0 attachments

Helvetica and "new media designers"

A quick question, why is all the "new media designers" (quotes because the title is absolutely ... work for Martha Stewart and anyone that has a penchant for carving letters into there skin should work for Sagmeister. I see what you are ... would rather be an all around mature designer that used elements of design to compose real works of art. am i allow to label design as ...

Forum topic - sevenfingers - 6 May 2005 - 7:55pm - 122 comments - 0 attachments

What's a good typeface for a grave stone?

... for gravestones? All things being equal, I would have the Johns Stevens Shop in Newport carve me a stone. My question here is ... were so much more angular. None of that painting-then-carving-over balderdash; content first; pragmatic; human. hhp I ...

Forum topic - dan_reynolds - 26 Oct 2004 - 12:34am - 25 comments - 0 attachments

Scandinavian ornament wanted

... for a nice Scandinavian ornament. Some types have the French Lily or any other ornament as a decorative element. I'm looking ... die, only the writing system. Hrant, the wood carving was in the "Early Swedish Sans" thread somewhere. BTW ...

Forum topic - Characters - 10 Nov 2003 - 1:04pm - 37 comments - 0 attachments

Archive through August 25, 2003

... a serious Serif Typeface for print and i decided to design the complete characters on paper scketches first. Drawing by hand let me ... the 'M' in M formula stands for Marionette. While carving marionettes, Dwiggins discovered that exaggerating smooth, rounded ...

Forum topic - Miguel Hernandez - 19 Feb 2003 - 3:20pm - 62 comments - 0 attachments