Search results

What are you listening to?

If you like the Strokes , you'll like The White Stripes even more. Happy and delicious. >What did you think of the new Fugazi album? I say don't fix what ain't broken. ... peter paul and mommy (children's) album. art by milton glaser (not anything great, but hey), and puff the magic ...

Forum topic - Joe Pemberton - 5 Sep 2007 - 9:54pm - 712 comments - 0 attachments

Sloped roman and italic in the same family

... and italics for emphatic speech? Or would you avoid the sloped roman, as Bringhurst suggests? Just some random thoughts... ... news face than it is in a coffee-table book about Italian art. Cursiveness brings an informality to the setting that might or might not ...

Forum topic - Chris Rugen - 2 Apr 2004 - 1:10pm - 54 comments - 0 attachments

Obituary: Town's Sole Stonecutter, Apparently

... money they could've just sold those deer carcasses to the local sausage factory. hhp Is that a punishment? Is that a ... it's viewed out of context. It's a beautiful piece of folk art to me and there are thousands more out there just like it. There would be ...

Forum topic - hrant - 11 Feb 2007 - 4:36pm - 66 comments - 0 attachments

Famous Quotes from Type Designers

... why, it is a surprise. However, we could also put these in the wiki. I'll start: "Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would ... contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is ...

Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 5 Jul 2005 - 3:47pm - 142 comments - 0 attachments

Books

... Books A wealth of information has been published about the art of type. "The Triumvirate of Typography"—selected primary works of ...

Wiki - circehouse - 2 Jul 2011 - 11:17am - 0 comments

SoCal Type Fanatics

... www.fontalicious.com some others in the LA area include Jill Bell ( www.jillbell.com ) Corey Holms ... Jens Gehlhaar (Cal Arts) teaches typography at Art Center (Pasadena). Sibylle Hagman (emigre, cholla) is art director of the USC School of Architecture in Los Angeles. bj (old information ...

Forum topic - hrant - 25 Jan 2003 - 11:59am - 51 comments - 0 attachments

Stylistic Alternatives - Indesign ?

The font I'm working on, I wanted to have an alternative "i", so I used the ... salt { sub @i by @salt ; } salt; First of all, is this the correct way to go ? Everything works great within ... now many specialists were required. Printers had lost the art of designing their own work and were soon to lose the proud privilege of ...

Forum topic - RachelR - 20 Mar 2007 - 8:26am - 92 comments - 0 attachments

Postage Stamps by Type Designers

I'm in the process of assembling a collection of postage stamps designed by type designers with ... the case, but years ago in the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, there was a display showing some Winslow Homer pencil sketches of the ...

Forum topic - KatRanPress - 15 Apr 2007 - 8:04am - 24 comments - 0 attachments

Nazi Taint - Redirect from: Design >> Overused Typefaces

{Over in the Design area, there's a thread called "Overused Typefaces"* ... Tuesday, June 10, 2003 - 10:41 am} > a revival of blackletter may be helped along by its role in an interesting historical ... with the advent of Gothic Architecture. As French art and culture (including gothic architecture) spread across Europe by ...

Forum topic - hrant - 12 Jun 2003 - 1:44pm - 96 comments - 0 attachments

Paul Renner and Futura: The Effects of Culture, Technology, and Social Continuity On the Design of Type for Printing

... I appreciate any serious commentary and input. The abstract follows: This thesis reviews the circumstances that led to ... identity came to be associated, in the metaculture of art and design around the world, with the Weimar-era modernism typified by ...

Forum topic - Charles Leonard - 23 Feb 2006 - 4:57pm - 55 comments - 0 attachments