Member Ric… Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Typecrime Typecrime Nineteen eighty four... So... it's off to the Ministry of Type with you, mate! "The Ministry of Type was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Type, nor within half a kilometer of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons." (This is Orwell's description of the Ministry of Love, but I've substituted a couple of words!) Link to comment
Member Bru… Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Kvetcha Yoga: purification through bitching Hilarious, kentlew! Dez, would the character's name happen to be Bobby? Link to comment
Member dez… Posted February 19, 2009 Author Share Posted February 19, 2009 You betcha, Bruce, but not Bobby Slimbach :-) ChrisL Link to comment
Member Ess… Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 My girlfriend would like to know if there’s a text offenders register??!!! Stef Link to comment
Member dez… Posted February 19, 2009 Author Share Posted February 19, 2009 Yes, you have to put a poorly written sign on your door :-) ChrisL Link to comment
Member par… Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 This one is serious! Do ‘ears’ start with an ‘e’ in Spanish? Link to comment
Member Ric… Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Nope... "ears" in Spanish is "orejas". Link to comment
Member dez… Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 Is Policía the same in Italian? ChrisL Link to comment
Member spe… Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Polizia in Italian. Link to comment
Member dez… Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 Grazzi! ChrisL Link to comment
Member Typ… Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 I hope you guys and gals like my version. I was inspired by ChrisL type cop. This is what the type police south of the border looks like. Creative people all over Latin America take their type serious just as much as North American's do. Spanish+Italian=Romantic Language Guerrizmo+Design Link to comment
Member AGL… Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 “ Shot! Shot! Shot! Aggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... .... .... ” Link to comment
Member par… Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Where is the Typolice when you need it?http://www.weatherby.info/shazam/generalrubbish/PirateDog.jpg Link to comment
Member AGL… Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Tarjeta de Indentificación Personá der Agente Púbrico Link to comment
Member Jua… Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Hi Typophiles, My blog is actually called Type Police! Its funny to see this compositions, I have been working on a logo/masthead for my blog but it is nothing like this. Anyway this is awesome, good idea! Well, now you can check the Type Police blog, its kind of a new blog, so there's not much in there. Thinking about showing all those crimes to typography that go unnoticed or unpunished...http://typepolice.wordpress.com Link to comment
Member Ale… Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 On a side note, I designed a T-shirt for the plagiarism police ; the making was inspired by a faculty meeting… Link to comment
Member dez… Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 Alessandro, that is funny! What is the story behind it? ChrisL Link to comment
Member dez… Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 Thanks for chiming in, Juan. I assume you teach typography? It looks like some good projects from your students. ChrisL Link to comment
Member Jua… Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Chris, Well, I'm actually taking the Advanced Typography Certificate at the Langara College in Vancouver, BC. This program has been put together by Dr. Shelley Gruendler of Typecamp http://www.typecamp.org/ So all the exercises are made by me... Cheers, Link to comment
Member Typ… Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Hi Juan Im also named Juan and your blog is interesting. Where you from Juan? Alessandro, I dig the t-shirt. Guerrizmo+Design Link to comment
Member dez… Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 @Juan, Shelley is a very fine typographer. I am sure you learned a great deal. ChrisL Link to comment
Member Ale… Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Chris, plagiarism was one of the 7/8 topics covered at the semester faculty meeting; now it appears we have a committee (a group of four colleagues) to deal with such matters – especially for interior architects and fashion design students, for their paying someone out of the school to make their modelling, etc. Anyhow, my T-shirt is what you see it is (with the quote from Malcolm X), and only for fun, yet I whole heartedly agree with Professor Aaron M. Brower when he says that "students must read for knowledge and write with the goal of exploring ideas. If students developed a genuine interest in their field, grades would take a back seat, and holistic and intrinsically motivated learning could take place. Source: NYTimes.com Link to comment
Member Ess… Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 http://www.ascendercorp.com/april/2006/fontpolice.htm Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now