{"id":24880,"date":"2011-01-16T09:41:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T17:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=24880"},"modified":"2011-10-15T14:04:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T21:04:46","slug":"cutting-bembo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/24880","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Bembo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Bembo01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Student <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mendomas.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Mike Thomas<\/a> went back to basics with his work for my experimental type course. <\/p>\n<p>As part of an 11-week study, Mike explored <a href=\"http:\/\/new.myfonts.com\/fonts\/adobe\/bembo\/\">types<\/a> created by the originator of italics, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francesco_Griffo\"target=\"_blank\">Francesco &#8216;Griffo&#8217; da Bologna<\/a> (1450-1518).<\/p>\n<p>Mike&#8217;s work was produced using a stack of 20 year old, aged paper &#8211; and involved media ranging from paint to ink to digital.<\/p>\n<p>His final project (above) was realized by cutting Griffo&#8217;s italic directly out of pieces of lead and creating a &#8216;soot proof&#8217; of the carved letters. Not quite to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Punchcutting\" target=\"_blank\">spec,<\/a> but challenging nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Bembo08.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Bembo06.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Bembo05.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Bembo03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Bembo04.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Bembo02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Bembo07.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Bembo09.jpg\"><\/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=\"Cutting Bembo\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/24880\"  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>Student Mike Thomas went back to basics with his work for my experimental type course. As part of an 11-week study, Mike explored types created by the originator of italics, Francesco &#8216;Griffo&#8217; da Bologna (1450-1518). Mike&#8217;s work was produced using a stack of 20 year old, aged paper &#8211; and involved media ranging from paint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54,49,127,51,120],"tags":[121,126,67,58,122],"class_list":["post-24880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-design-history","category-education","category-fonts","category-illustration","category-typography","tag-design","tag-education","tag-fonts","tag-graphic-design","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880","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=24880"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29830,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions\/29830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}