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Cutting Bembo
Posted on January 16th, 2011 by steve
Student Mike Thomas went back to basics with his work for my experimental type course.
As part of an 11-week study, Mike explored types created by the originator of italics, Francesco ‘Griffo’ da Bologna (1450-1518).
Mike’s work was produced using a stack of 20 year old, aged paper – and involved media ranging from paint to ink to digital.
His final project (above) was realized by cutting Griffo’s italic directly out of pieces of lead and creating a ‘soot proof’ of the carved letters. Not quite to spec, but challenging nonetheless.
