entries Tagged as [typography]

Carved BERN HARD

‘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

Tschichold and Alta California

Rare Jan Tschichold book design, featuring his use of an early prototype of the Alta Calfornia font.

Cloth cover for Das lustige Buch (The Funny Book), Verlag der Bücherkreis GmbH, Berlin, 1931.

Letter March 2011

‘This is an experiment in carving one linocut letter per day in an attempt to complete an entire alphabet by March 31st. Chosen typeface: Champion Gothic by Hoefler & Frere-Jones. Lightweight was chosen based on a deep rooted affection with its ampersand.’

And so concludes Aymie Spitzer’s March of Letters. Blog here. Calendar archive here.

Found via Campbell BrownKorbel

Camphor

‘clean and cool, modern sans serif’

New from Linotype: Nick Job’s Camphor. Inspired by Edward Johnston’s type for the London Underground, Eric Gill’s Sans and the work of Adrian Frutiger.

Available here.

Butter typography 7

‘Over in Missouri USA, yellow margarine remains illegal to this day’

A look at butter over margarine – animated by Kris Cook at Outside Line for the UK Friends of Butter folk.

Butter typography 6

Set in my own Escoffier Capitaux font. Get it here.

Butter typography 5

Today, I’m wearing Butter. Photo by Holly Hadley.

Butter typography 3

Helvetica cookies, Helvetica cookie cutters.

The work of Beverly Hsu.

Found via Pardeep’s Design Blog

Butter typography 2

Gemma O’Brien’s Leitura ‘H’ cake.

Info here.

Butter typography 1

Was recently discussing with a culinary instructor that it’d be interesting if some of her students took one of my type classes. Imagine what would happen to plated up food with type knowledge floating thru young cooks’ brains.

Then I saw Zeughaus’ butter letters, above.

Original type by Typejockeys, butter cut by Nadine Ruhm. Info here.

Buttermilk font

Jessica Hische’s Buttermilk font. Snag it here.


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