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Typography Weekly #37
Welcome to the Infill Font Foundry
After a Twitter discussion following a Fontstand article about Emigre, Kris Sowersby published a detailed comment about the interview and state of type design/distribution today.
klim.co.nz
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Display phototype in New York: folks, firms and fonts
By Peter Bain. There was probably no place that photocomposition had a greater effect than on the New York advertising scene in the mid-20th century. The liberation from the limitations of metal type … provided the typographic designers and type directors of the city with more possibilities”
academic.typeculture.com
Suggested By Member Ric…
How a Minneapolis font designer helped Prince make his mark
“You may not know Chank Diesel as a person, but you’re likely well-acquainted with his work. If you’ve glanced at The Hunger Games‘s cover, seen last year’s World Series logo, or picked up a box of Crayola crayons, you’ve already spent time with the font pioneer”
blog.thecurrent.org
Suggested By Member Ric…
The calligraphy of Alice Koeth
“New Yorkers or any of the city’s millions of visitors who walked along Madison Avenue in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s know her masterful posters for the Morgan Library. Scribes in the U.S. and abroad know her through her celebrated workshops. She is Alice Koeth, known professionally simply as Alice”
www.kickstarter.com
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Suggested By Member Ric…
The Univers of Helvetica: A Tale of Two Typefaces
“How did Helvetica become the typographic celebrity that it is today… and why didn’t Univers land the role instead? In this piece from Print’s Spring 2016 Issue, Paul Shaw takes us on a guided tour through type history.”
www.printmag.com
Letterform Archive is the new home of Emigre’s archive
“The renowned digital type foundry’s collection includes the original paste-up for the Emigre logo, paste-ups for Emigre magazine and a complete run of the publication, as well as audio tapes of interviews, merchandise, ephemera, typeface development files, and type catalogs.”
letterformarchive.org
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