{"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":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"395\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jKPQw17XimQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jKPQw17XimQ&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"395\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;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.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Student Tony Wang&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hermann_Zapf\" target=\"_blank\">Hermann Zapf.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It culminated in the above video &#8211; vector-based drawings\/tracings of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zapfino\" target=\"_blank\">Zapfino<\/a> caps. <\/p>\n<p>Each drawing was hand rendered (no live trace) in Adobe Illustrator. (For my <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/323\" target=\"_blank\">beginning courses,<\/a> students have to draft letterforms by hand with pencil\/compass. Tony&#8217;s beautifully realized final is the next logical step in the process.)<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Zapfino: Really fast\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/17877\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;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.&#8217; Student Tony Wang&#8217;s final project from my experimental typography course at The Art Institute of California Sacramento. Tony spent the past eleven weeks doing a multifaceted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,50,49,127,51,120],"tags":[126,67,58,123,122],"class_list":["post-17877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design","category-education","category-fonts","category-illustration","category-typography","tag-education","tag-fonts","tag-graphic-design","tag-illustration","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17877"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17907,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17877\/revisions\/17907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}