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- What are you listening to?
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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 ... that makes you question what you think you know about the history of western music. The Beatles - Love and Crazy The Beatles - ...
Forum topic - Joe Pemberton - 5 Sep 2007 - 9:54pm - 712 comments - 0 attachments
- Famous Quotes from Type Designers
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... why, it is a surprise. However, we could also put these in the wiki. I'll start: "Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would ... Designer's Type Book, says "Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human ...
Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 5 Jul 2005 - 3:47pm - 142 comments - 0 attachments
- Is God Dead? Is Type Dead? (top forty magazine covers survey)
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This press release just came across the wire... ... dietic I'll leave dietic resuscitation to the clergy and their politician friends. Unless they dumb down the population to the point ... the most functionality, and by far the cheapest prices in history. Type isn't even a carcinogenic and doesn't cause global warming. ...
Forum topic - Sii Daniels - 20 Oct 2005 - 2:36pm - 61 comments - 0 attachments
- Er...what is a font?
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... real understanding of typography. I know very little about the history of typography, it's technological evolutions and the rules of best ...
Forum topic - sebsan - 19 Aug 2005 - 4:24am - 26 comments - 0 attachments
- How do you develop hand lettering aesthetics?
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... "Logo Font & Lettering Bible: A Comprehensive Guide to the Design, Construction and Usage of Alphabets and Symbols" Maybe you ... path-breaking typographic exploration lies. But, what the history of writing has to teach us is more than ductal logic. If you need ...
Forum topic - j_polo9 - 2 Jul 2006 - 8:19pm - 181 comments - 0 attachments
- Post Modern Type?
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... for some information on Post Modern type. I need to know the characteristics, the approximate date of their creation, and an example ... Venetian, Aldine or Egypitine to you? If you study type history a little it can become pretty easy. Look here & you will be ...
Forum topic - sanapres - 1 May 2007 - 10:01pm - 61 comments - 0 attachments
- Inter-library loan!
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... of course ). But then it occured to me - I might tap into the collective wisdom of Typophile about neat things you may have found this way. And I might also remind all & sundry that the Library is a great resource! ... source, I've just found a copy of 'Lettering; the history and technique of lettering as design' by Alexander Nesbitt, ...
Forum topic - ebensorkin - 28 Feb 2007 - 5:32pm - 10 comments - 0 attachments
- political/cultural aesthetics of type
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... of relationships between political/cultural matters and the formal features of a typeface: Relationship 1: the formal features ... a political thing. People in the arts and crafts have a history of being a bit eccentric and not big rote-step followers of political ...
Forum topic - jlg4104 - 15 Feb 2007 - 9:20am - 32 comments - 0 attachments
- Looking for Mr Gill...
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... that scary kid an Who gave that scary kid an axe? The Eric Gill story I am sure will raise a few hackles. When I embarked on the ... In a sense I was thinking about my dad and his art history. The extraordinary thing is that Gill was in this village because of ...
Forum topic - Sii Daniels - 2 Jan 2007 - 9:20am - 79 comments - 0 attachments
- Chirography & Notan in Japanese Calligraphy + Notan in Roman letterforms
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... in letter/type design. Thinking about this I wrote at the time that Japanese Caligraphy seems to have both & without suffering ... the reason, except maybe an artifact of western design history. Maybe what you object to is only the restriction in form that can ...
Forum topic - ebensorkin - 9 Aug 2005 - 11:19am - 62 comments - 3 attachments
