More new TypeCon images are up

More new TypeCon images are up

http://www.flickr.com/groups/typecon/pool/

Not quite done yet but I’m getting there.

Jovica Veljovic at the SF Public Library!

Will you be going to see Jovica Veljovic at the SF Public Library? I will be!

A slide lecture by Jovica Veljovic, calligrapher, printmaker, teacher and word-renowned type designer, from Hamburg, Germany. Cosponsored by the Book Arts and Special Collections Center.

August 28th

5:30 reception
6:30-7:30 presentation.
( Lower level, Koret Auditorium )

For more info: contact Susie Taylor at The SFPL rare book room.

What a great TypeCon!

What a great TypeCon! I even got to have coffee with JP at the end today.

I am plenty tired but also very happy.

My thanks to everybody who made it possible & especially the kind folk at p-22!

Cheers!

Typecon off to a fine start!

Typecon is off to a fine start - IMNSHO. My thanks to Rob Keller and Atilla Korap for a very useful class today!

I'm Looking forward to seeing the Carey Collection at RIT tomorrow

I’m Looking forward to seeing the Carey Collection and meeting David Pankow at RIT tomorrow. I saw the TypeCon Hotel today. Looks good!

I am going to AtypI in St. Petersburg, Russia. Any advice?

I am going to AtypI in St. Petersburg, Russia to give my talk on Contextual Alternatives in roman text face design. I am very happy about this! :-)

In the meantime as I prepare, I wonder: do you have any advice for me about St. Petersburg? AtypI? Cusine? Pre-AtypI tourisim? Anything else?

Feel free to reply here or to contact me privately.

Thanks!

My first book design - complete with a faux marbling job.

I am interested in any comments praising or otherwise.

This is an obviously faux old-book; complete with a faux marbling job done with screenprinting.

I designed this from afar and the good folks at Objective Press Canada published - well really - made this with their own hands. It uses P22’s - LTF Calson Pro Long.

See more here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebensorkin/2505088220/

Antonella, thanks for the photos!

Rapid Application/Portfolio for entry to Reading University's Type Design Program

I am in the middle of making a rapid Application/Portfolio for entry to Reading University’s Type Design Program. If anybody has any advice they want to give me I am all ears. Feel free to comment here or to contact me offline. I am typing typing typing.

And another thing...

I have been showing an image of 3 Aldine (Griffo) r shapes around. You may have seen them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebensorkin/2416920076/in/set-72157604556594...

But today I noticed something else. All three of the bases are quite different too. This is starting to look less & less circumstantial to me now. What do you think?

Images of the Original 15th C Subiaco type (repro dots)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebensorkin/sets/72157604955393401/

Images of the Original 15th C Subiaco type as distinguished from the revival (UK) Ashendene version. These image come from Cicero & St. Augustine (pre 1465 & 1467) in reproduction ( hence the dots ) taken of the Book "The Ashendene Press" by Colin Franklin. This is a marvelous book in many many ways. Highly recommended.

What is interesting about these images is that they show plenty of contextual alternates being used, and they are very very obvious. Just to get started have a look at the "ra" and "ta" and then look at an "a" in another context.