Member Cel… Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform Hello Typophiles Does anybody have some basic biographical information about Joel Kaden, designer of the light and medium weights of ITC American Typewriter in 1974 ? Thank you very much. Link to comment
Member Geo… Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Check the "Best Answer" reply at this link for more info: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061109142243AAbj7h8 HTH Link to comment
Member Cel… Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 I've already tried it, I'm afraid — two of the links are dead, one is irrelevant, and the last one (to the Linotype website) doesn't bring much… But thank you anyway. Link to comment
Member HVB… Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 I'm sure you've found that there was a Joel Kaden, born Feb 12, 1914, SSN issued in New York State, who died in Orlando, FL on July 12, 2003. Some of the genealogy sites (most with 3 days to two weeks free one-time trial access) indicate that they have more information. At least one site indicated that there was an obituary in the Orlando Sentinel, but at the newspaper's site I did a search for the name with a date range of all of 2003 and it found nothing. Link to comment
Member Cel… Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 No, actually, I hadn't found that — this is definitely a lead and I will investigate that. Thank you very much. St. PS : if this is the man, he would have been 60 when he designed American Typewriter. Amazing. Link to comment
Member HVB… Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 From what I've found, he worked with ITC's Tony Stan on American Typewriter, who lived from 1917-1987 or 1988, similar ages, which of course proves nothing. Link to comment
Member Cel… Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 Can you imagine these two sixtysomethings plotting American Typewriter ? Funny. Link to comment
Member HVB… Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Why do you seem so astounded that people past their 20's can accomplish something? Link to comment
Member Cel… Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 It's definitely not what I meant : my idea was more that the whimsical qualities of American Typewriter are not readily associated with old, seasoned professionals. But those were the 1970s, so who knows ? Link to comment
Member HVB… Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 And you don't think that seasoned professionals like George Burns, Groucho Marx, Don Rickles, Milton Berle, Phyllis Diller, and on and on can have and professionally use and capitalize their whimsical qualities? Link to comment
Member Ren… Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Better Betty White than the examples cited. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/betty-white-snl-muffin-vi_n_570... Link to comment
Member pic… Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 In fact, American Typewriter is pretty sophisticated. I couldn’t imagine a novice type designer working on it. Besides this, I think I will more or less start doing something good when (and if) I get older (I am 43). Link to comment
Member hra… Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 My father says a man's 40s is his golden age. But I feel I've mostly wasted the first 4 years of those... hhp Link to comment
Member pic… Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 You have wasted too much time on Typophile, that goes for sure! LOL Link to comment
Member hra… Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 But I've learned so much, and not just about fonts but people too... hhp Link to comment
Member hra… Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 You might have been kidding but there is truth in it! :-/ hhp Link to comment
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