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Last weekend I was invited to teach a workshop called Understanding and Experiencing the Designspace, at the Cooper Union's certificate program Type@Cooper. The students were an inspiration, and the Cooper Union is still simply one of the most gratifying places to teach. Check out the pictures after the jump...
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One of the great joys of being a type designer is when you pick up a book or a DVD and your own font is staring back at you. Yesterday, while browsing Amazon's suggestions this just happened to me: One of my first typefaces, published back in the day with FontShop International, the ffMutilated. Awesome, break out the Coke Zero!
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In early spring 2011 Hannes Famira is going to teach a class which goes by the above title, as part of the Type@Cooper certificate program at the Cooper Union. The dates are January 29 and 30 2011, 9 am – 4 pm.
Update (February 4, 2011):
Check out the photographs from the class.
Kombinat-Typefounders are proud to officially announce our support for the new web font format WOFF. We intend to start selling our complete retail library as soon as software to convert our fonts is made commercially available. We are also keeping a keen eye trained on the software industry's work on full browser support. At this point the type industry is scrambling to get up to speed on the recent developments and declare their support: typefoundries endorsing WOFF.
Typeface Ohm-Bold by Tal Lemming www.typesupply.com.
As we are taking baby steps toward a functional and convenient web site we have just added two new features to the navigation of the catalog section. On any page in the catalog, be it the specimens or the glyph set page, the user can now browse through all fonts simply by clicking the next font link in the navigation bar. The second feature we added is an optional list view on the font overview page. You can now also choose to see each font represented by the letter a or by the ampersand &.
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Here's a captivating, personal article on I Love Typography about the design process of Jeremy Mickel's first commercially available typeface. This is a very inspiring read that I wish I had been exposed to when I started out.
Sketches and the finished Typeface.
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Awesome! The German Robotlab has trained an industrial robot to write a bible of all things... Thanks for the link, Alexandra.
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Letterror is introducing the new and completely reworked ffTrixie with a nice little YouTube video. Just van Rossum on guitar.
Remember Ken Barber's beautiful Studio Lettering Collection? Well our friends over at House Industries have an ampersand t-shirt that will forcefully remove your socks. Also check out their mouse pad with the same motif.
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If you used to love Typoman's adventures you will definitely recognize the style of these t-shirt designs we spotted over at Letterror. Erik van Blokland's illustrations put a witty spin on geeky tech themes like the eternally running webcam in an empty room or the peculiar fascination of sweet gadgets.
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The continuing education department at the Cooper Union is now offering a three-tiered type design program.
- Introduction to type design: Hand drawn type - The Roman Letterforms
- Introduction to type design: Hand drawn type - The Italic Letterforms
- Introduction to Digital Type Design in FontLab Studio v.5
- Introduction to type design: Hand drawn type - The Italic Letterforms
- Introduction to Digital Type Design in FontLab Studio v.5
Continuing Education has re-structured the type design classes again to make more sense for students with different skill levels and interests. This is slowly developing into a miniaturized type design curriculum in itself. Just add a calligraphy class to the beginning, the letterpress class to the end and presto: 5 semesters of intensive immersion in type!
So these are the three type design classes and their boilerplate descriptions. If you have questions please don't hesitate to get in touch.
So these are the three type design classes and their boilerplate descriptions. If you have questions please don't hesitate to get in touch.
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I have had a chance to look over Ken Barber's shoulder for a while and have witnessed the final stage of the development of the Studio Lettering collection. I am baffled by the beauty of this font family. Yesterday it has at last been made available to the public.
House Industrie's Studio Lettering Collection.
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I am excited to announce that this summer Dan Morris is going to teach letterpress printing at the Cooper Union. In my experience a class stands or falls with it's teacher.
Pardon the old image. See more angles of our new letterpress shop here, ...and no this is not Dan in this picture.
Brooklyn seems to be buzzing with stinky, ancient looking trucks that proudly show off their hand painted lettering of varying quality. I think it is actually the combination of the obvious ambition to convey professional gravitas and the amateurish naiveté that fascinates me. So I have decided I should be hunting for those trucks as my new photo-safari kind of sport. It all started with my first trophy.
My new photo-safari kind of sport will be hunting for trucks with hand painted lettering of varying quality.
Since I started teaching in the US I have been asked what type-related places students can visit when traveling Europe. This is the start of a list of venues.
The fall semester is over and this year we have the opportunity to show the work in the Lubalin Center at the Cooper Union.
A panorama of the exhibition space at the Cooper Union's Lubalin Center.
Check out the hand drawn type on this truck. There are still tons of commercial trucks around here with hand drawn type on it. While I am very impressed with the bevel on this one I particularly love the figure three and let's not overlook the pinstriping.
Summer is almost over and at last I got myself a new USB cable for the digital camera. Look what I discovered when I finally hooked it up to my Mac again. Back in May John Downer had come to Brooklyn all the way from Iowa to work on this beautiful sign.
The fascia lettering originally painted in the 1940s
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