Typophile - Scans from Jim Rimmer's Delightful Book - Comments

For what it is worth, my

dezcom — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:07:20 -0700

For what it is worth, my vote goes for doing it. It is a warm face that speaks with a tooled hand. It says craftsman and that is a good thing.

ChrisL

Do you plan to digitize

kegler — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:11:14 -0700

Do you plan to digitize Jim’s “Nephi” face?

We are “in discussions” :^)

Thanks Richard! BTW Do you

dezcom — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:57:20 -0700

Thanks Richard!
BTW Do you plan to digitize Jim’s “Nephi” face?

ChrisL

Here are a few more images

kegler — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:40:24 -0700

Here are a few more images of Leaves from the Pie Tree. Jim has indicated that his edition is now sold out. We have a couple copies left of the P22 co-edition.

I forgot to mention that

dezcom — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:22:48 -0700

I forgot to mention that these scans were made from off sheets, not the book itself. The black page was a rice paper printed with metalic sulver ink. The scan does not show it at its best light.
The photo of the stone was tipped in the book but shows you Jim’s handiwork with a chisel as well.

ChrisL

Can anybody find the

dezcom — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:03:46 -0700

Can anybody find the original post where Jim talked about this? I would like to link to it.

ChrisL

Ben, Don’t thank me, it is

dezcom — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:02:28 -0700

Ben,
Don’t thank me, it is all Jim’s work. All I did was scan and post.

ChrisL

Sharon, I just downloaded it

dezcom — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:01:20 -0700

Sharon,
I just downloaded it from the link with no problem. What version of Acrobat are you using? Perhaps you need to u[grade to a more current reader? This one is saved as 6.0.
It is 30MB so you can zoom in on the detail. Perhaps you have a size restriction for download?

ChrisL

Ah well, I could see the

Sharon Van Lieu — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:44:30 -0700

Ah well, I could see the .pdf listed in your first post but not the one in your third post.

Beautiful work.

Wow Chris. Lovely – thanks

ben_archer — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:01:24 -0700

Wow Chris. Lovely – thanks to you and Jim for sharing this with us.

Thanks for posting this!

Eben Sorkin — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:02:29 -0700

Thanks for posting this!

I can’t open the link on

Sharon Van Lieu — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:06:22 -0700

I can’t open the link on your site, Chris. Acrobat says the file is damaged and can’t be repaired.

Awesome. The last of his

DanGayle — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:14:50 -0700

Awesome. The last of his kind. Great work Jim.

I could only get a low rez

dezcom — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:32:29 -0700

I could only get a low rez version to post on Typophile in the first post. If you want the hi rez version, use the link in the post above this one to the Dezcom site.

ChrisL

No luck posting it again. It

dezcom — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:24:28 -0700

No luck posting it again. It is 13 MB so that might be why.

I have to post it on my site the. Here is the link:

http://www.dezcom.com/RimmerPieTree.pdf

ChrisL

Scans from Jim Rimmer's Delightful Book

dezcom — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:10:18 -0700

A while back Jim Rimmer asked if I would scan a few pages of his book, “Leaves from the Pie Tree”. It is a beautiful letterpress book is printed on fine paper and hand bound by Jim in limited edition. It is available from P22 and from Jim’s own foundry. The types are all Jims own hot metal cuts. I have posted a PDF of the pages I scanned so that you can see them at higher than screen resolution. There was a thread here on Typophile a while back which prompted this post.

One of the featured faces is used to set a story his father told him as a boy. The following is a note from Jim.

“Nephi Mediaeval was my attempt to make a type heavily reflective of the semi roman of Sweynheim and Pannartz, without making an out and out revival of it. I studied the characters of the original pretty thoroughly and then put them away before starting my own drawings. I did refer back to the originals a couple of times and cheated a little, making alterations where I had drifted too far away from the look of the S&P type.

I cut this type in one size only (18 point) since I believed at the time that this was close to the historic type. I named my version after my dad, John, Nephi Rimmer. It has had little use because of the restrictive nature of such an archaic design, but I was able to use it this year in my putting down in words, a story often told to me by my dad from his early memories of boyhood in Bolton, Lancashire.”

Jim Rimmer

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ChrisL