Sat.Jun 12, 2010 - Fri.Jun 18, 2010

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Learning Typeface Design

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

Learning to draw letters is hard enough, but learning to create typefaces is something else entirely. For those with an interest in both, H&Co’s Sara Soskolne will be teaching “Turning Letters into Type,” a week-long workshop at New York’s School of Visual Arts, July 12–16. Registration is now open , and seats are limited.

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The Murderer Wore Serifs

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

Typeface designers live with the permanent possibility of encountering their work at unexpected moments. Your old college now uses a font that you designed; in a movie, whose story takes place before you were born, your typefaces are used for prop newspapers and storefronts; the intimidating signs that scold you in public places now address you in your own handwriting.

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