Late Night with David Letterman premiere, February 1st, 1982
Photo: Nancy Kaye/AP
I’ve been a fan of David Letterman for years. Back when he used to guest host the Tonight Show and he did a long, long bit on how thick the chili was in the NBC commissary, when he once mentioned that the word ‘snacks’ never, ever appeared in the Bible, and asked a store called ‘just light bulbs’ if they sold anything else. [Read more →]
I used to use ‘The Kroy Machine’ for the Monday Morning Blues.
The Blues was a college zine. I was editor and designer. We had no Macintosh, only an old Apple II with a basic word processing program hooked up to an inky typewriter-like dot matrix printer. Most articles were typed on an actual typewriter because that was sometimes easier.
The Kroy was a lot like a large Dymo labeller. And it was a BITCH to work with, the kerning sucked (the dial on the bottom was for kerning/tracking, but you couldn’t easily see what you were doing), the letters jumped around a lot – the gum on the labels was very sticky/not repositionable. But you could make little headlines on transparent tape – and it was a huge step up from rub off lettering.
Learned to hate the Souvenir and Stymie fonts while using that thing. Cooper, LOTS of Cooper Black!
Here’s more info about this particular machine, via our design studio uses only the finest state of the art technology.
The work of Niels Shoe Meulman, via Some Type of Wonderful
This comes up a lot in my type classes. Urban lettering – graffiti – is often practiced by students in my typography courses. The work is typically great, however, where things tend to fall apart is when I’m teaching traditional form, such as script or italic.
As one student put it, “in this class I learned not to be gangsta . . . . ” [Read more →]
“Our second film is Monster From the Ocean Floor. This movie is so bad that it was delivered to Channel 2 in a brown paper bag. When we’re through showing it tonight, it will be part of a garage sale in Alameda tomorrow.”
Bob Wilkins was this incredible host of a late night horror television show back in the 1970s. And he really hated horror movies, which made the show all the more sublime. [Read more →]
Roman lettering study by James Yassie from steve mehallo’s beginning typography course, Fall 2005
I’ve gotten a lot of questions about the type courses I teach. [Read more →]
I like to think globally (or at least, I think I do).
This morning I ran across this analysis of the United States – via Gawker, published in Der Spiegel.
I find the P.O.V. fascinating to digest, and decided to repost it – wondering what other opinions would be. It has some inflammatory comments, but I appreciate the blunt language and directness of the text. It is an opinion piece – one agrees, disagrees, digests.
What do you think?
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