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Carved BERN HARD

Posted on April 2nd, 2011 by steve

‘I was working on maintaining the quality of Bernhard’s handdone type while taking a new and different approach to it’

Student Lesley Gaesser’s large scale final project from my experimental type course at The Art Institute of California Sacramento.

Lesley did an 11 week study on the work of designer Lucian Bernhard (1883-1972) – which culminated in a final linocut-inspired project.

Bernard’s Antiqua type was traced onto Speedball carving blocks, cut by hand, inked and printed on large sheets of watercolor paper.

My next experimental course begins April 8.


If student hangs roughs low on the wall, one can only critique if lying on the floor; Photo by Daniel Mendez

tags: design, design history, education, fonts, photography, typography // 2 comments  . . .   

2 Responses to “Carved BERN HARD”

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    […] Carved BERN HARD Bernard's Antiqua type was traced onto Speedball carving blocks, cut by hand, inked and printed on large sheets of watercolor paper. My next experimental course begins April 8. If student hangs roughs low on the wall, […]

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