{"id":17877,"date":"2010-06-15T23:33:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T06:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=17877"},"modified":"2010-06-15T23:59:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T06:59:58","slug":"zapfino-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/17877","title":{"rendered":"Zapfino: Really fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘Real time: 1 hour 28 minutes, footage was recorded nonstop in one sitting. I was going as fast as I could so there are some imperfections here and there.’<\/em><\/p>\n

Student Tony Wang’s final project from my experimental typography course at The Art Institute of California Sacramento. Tony spent the past eleven weeks doing a multifaceted study of the work of Hermann Zapf.<\/a> <\/p>\n

It culminated in the above video – vector-based drawings\/tracings of Zapfino<\/a> caps. <\/p>\n

Each drawing was hand rendered (no live trace) in Adobe Illustrator. (For my beginning courses,<\/a> students have to draft letterforms by hand with pencil\/compass. Tony’s beautifully realized final is the next logical step in the process.)<\/p>\n\r\n\t

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