dude smoking a cig by a wall.
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7.26.2011
7.23.2011
7.18.2011
Matthew Carter at Type@Cooper
just got back from seeing Matthew Carter speak on revivals.
Such an amazing experience to see someone being active in the industry for so long.
Genuine Imitations: A Type Designer’s View of Revivals"A number of Matthew Carter’s designs have been based on historical types, ITC Galliard, Big Caslon, Miller, Vincent and the Yale typeface among them. Others, like Snell Roundhand and Mantinia, were derived from non-typographic sources from the past such as handwriting manuals and lettering in the work of painters. In this lecture he explains his debt to the historical legacy, and describes cases where historically-based designs have been adapted to the needs of contemporary clients. His type revivals have varied in faithfulness to their models, which raises questions about the responsibilities of the continuator of traditional forms, about degrees of interpretation, adaptation to current technology, ancestor worship and travesty."
at Cooper Union presented by Type@Cooper (http://coopertype.org)
photo: this is Matthew Carter's back (note ponytail)
poor quality thanks to camera phone.
7.17.2011
New York City
a clock shop in Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan from Brooklyn
Manhattan from Brooklyn (again)
proof
7.10.2011
Fitz, Greek
Fitz is now going into the Greek language. Here is the basic set with a few accents. The extended language set is in the works right now.
alphabet
portions of the Lord's Prayer
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If anyone out there has recommendations for Greek letterforms, I'm all ears. I think the ánō teleía might need to be moved up a bit and the word-final position sigma (ς). I'm also working a better lowercase alpha, a truer single-stroke calligraphic form.
6.28.2011
6.20.2011
bag of money
I drew a bag of money yesterday, just for fun.
I've been drawing a lot more recently. Hopefully I can get some of those drawings polished up and on here soon.
6.10.2011
summer internship: Red Antler
I start my summer internship on Monday at Red Antler.
check out their website at http://redantler.com
birds
Just made a few birds for fun. Very simple forms with angular contours. From the top down is some falcon, macaw, vulture, canary, crow & eagle.
(click to enlarge)
5.20.2011
Fitz sans?
so the alternate glyphs made me think of a sans serif cousin. I put a bit of time into realizing that and now the idea of a Fitz type system is appealing; of making Fitz into a serif copy face and developing a sans serif headline, display version.
The current version of Fitz (serif) has a different uppercase Q and different lower case y. I think these sans serif characters fit the family better.
5.18.2011
5.09.2011
fitz
a few print samples of the typeface I'm working on.
I worked a bit on the kerning today.
this is the final character set. more alternatives not shown.
the font set at 12pt. no punctuation or numerals yet -- but soon.
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5.08.2011
5.02.2011
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