Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 17, 2009
I have for exactly one year been waiting to open up the monumental copy of Ornamented Types of L. J. Pouchée that we have in the office, to find the example of the delicately curlicued shamrock type that historian James Mosley attributed to an unknown punchcutter he designated “Master of the Creeping Tendril,” and to post it here. This is not that type.
Illustration Art
MARCH 9, 2009
Cosmic disturbances sometimes engulf our planet in violent magnetic storms, yet you can sit there calmly sipping your jasmine tea and munching cucumber sandwiches, oblivious to the vast drama going on around you because our senses can't detect magnetic storms. You'd have to look at a compass and see the needle going haywire to figure out that something was taking place.
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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 12, 2009
Type designers are accustomed to approaching the line between homage and parody with great care. It’s especially daunting when its subject is a living colleague, as was the case last Friday when our own Tobias Frere-Jones presented an award of his own design to Wim Crouwel , winner of the 2009 Gerrit Noordzij Prize. (In keeping with the tradition , the current holder of the prize designs the award given to its next recipient.
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 3, 2009
Tobias is the fourth and current holder of the Gerrit Noordzij Prize, which was presented to him in 2006. Every few years, the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague celebrates an individual for his “unique contributions to type design, typography, and type education,” qualities which honor both the recipient and the prize’s namesake: Gerrit Noordzij, as an instructor, a designer, and a type designer, has influenced generations of typographers, and has been singularly instrumental i
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Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 30, 2009
Some would argue for Bleak House, others Middlemarch. The Great Gatsby has its proponents as well, along with Lolita and Heart of Darkness. But for me, it is none of these: there is a clear winner in the category, a single book that is the finest work of literature written in the English language. It is English As She Is Spoke , an 1853 phrasebook by Pedro Carolino, offered to Portuguese speakers as a guide to the English language.
Fonts by Hoefler&Co.
MARCH 5, 2009
One charming aspect of the Gerrit Noordzij Prize is the design of the award itself. By tradition, it’s something created by the current prize holder, and presented to the incoming awardee. Past winners have used the occasion to create something that not only encapsulates their own work in some personal way, but postulates some connection to the interests of the next designer in succession.
Illustration Art
MARCH 22, 2009
Some artists try to honor sacred texts by translating the holy words into pictures. The result is not intended to be read like a conventional book, but rather experienced as visual art. For example, some Korans from 17th-century Turkey, Iran and North India are so elaborate and ornate they are virtually impossible to read except as a visual embodiment of the beauty of the words.
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