Member Rya… Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform It's hard for me to imagine someone only creating one typeface and no more. It would be like someone only painting one painting, or someone writing only one song. To gather enough passion for something to do it completely and in whole once, but at the same time not enough passion to want to even do it one more time before you die, seems like a hard spot to land on. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 Passion can be for quality rather than quantity. hhp Link to comment
Member Nic… Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 In the past, many lettering designers would have liked to have had more than one kick at the can, but even that was a rarity. Max Miedinger worked for 30 years as a graphic designer and typographer before he joined Haas. Link to comment
Member qua… Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 From the title, I thought this thread was about something like like the "one hit wonder" in popular music; a type designer who, unlike Frederic W. Goudy, Morris Fuller Benton, or Hermann Zapf, only designed one successful face that anyone remembers. Many amateur designers might well just make one font and decide it's just too much work. Link to comment
Member Jan… Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Only designer I can think of is Otl Aicher: Rotis. Link to comment
Member Rya… Posted October 25, 2012 Author Share Posted October 25, 2012 K. Sommer: Dynamo. Link to comment
Member alt… Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Did Bruce Rogers do any generally-released typefaces besides Centaur? I know he did Montaigne but as far as I know that was only used for one or two in-house jobs (in one point size) and was never made generally available... Link to comment
Member dum… Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 Why wouldn't someone make only one face? Maybe one face is all that they need. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I know a guy who only made 1/2 a face: Stanley Morison. hhp Link to comment
Member old… Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Peter Max’s Riverside Drive… Link to comment
Member Jam… Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 > like the "one hit wonder" in popular music Or in movies where some actors may have been in many movies but are remembered mostly for one role, like Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Linda Blair (Exorcist), or Margaret Hamilton (witch in Wizard of Oz). Link to comment
Member hra… Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Yes, typecasting! :-) Which brings me to something I've been wanting to do for a while: would it be possible/useful to make a list of type designers showing what they're best at and/or best known for*? For example Alejandro Paul would have "script fonts", James Montalbano might get "highway signage", Gerry Leonidas and Maxim Zhukov would obviously get "Greek" and "Cyrillic" respectively, etc. Although there's a risk of pigeon-holing it would also be useful to direct people to specialists. Maybe? * No snide remarks about yours truly please. :-) hhp Link to comment
Member HVB… Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Is Ryan suggesting that other type designers are two-faced? Link to comment
Member Nic… Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Gerry Leonidas and Maxim Zhukov would obviously get "Greek" and "Cyrillic"… Have they ever designed or published any typefaces? Link to comment
Member dez… Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Michael Jordan never scored a touchdown but he was one hell of an athlete just the same. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 I think Maxim has, but it sort of doesn't matter because they get paid good money to consult on those scripts by many foundries, all of whom can't be that stupid or magnanimous. BTW, I don't pretend it would be a one-to-one mapping; clearly more than one person could end up with a "Cyrillic" tag or anything else. hhp Link to comment
Member Rya… Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 Margaret Calvert -- "Calvert"http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/calvert-mt/ Link to comment
Member Nic… Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 http://www.dezeen.com/2012/11/25/calvert-brody-typeface-by-margaret-calv... She also had a hand in a much-used highway sans. Link to comment
Member Rya… Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 yeah, idk, should government sponsorship really count? Link to comment
Member Rya… Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 The little red dots.. strange.. the only place I'd use them, the 6 and the 9, they aren't there Link to comment
Member Rya… Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 Jackson Burke -- "Trade Gothic" Link to comment
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