Typophile - Mi little red book - Comments

Hmmm...interesting. I can

TypoJunkie — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:27:52 -0800

Hmmm...interesting. I can only say it was human error… I guess I did not pay as much attention to it as I should have; for most ligatures I used the alternates, which worked fine for the “ct” and “st” ligatures, but the “fi” one should appear on its own; not sure about the “ft”. Great eye for detail Kent! I’ll fix right away.

Cheers!

An interesting project. I

kentlew — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:09:57 -0800

An interesting project. I have one picky comment/question about your typesetting. All of the f-ligatures in your text look like long s-ligatures were employed instead.

One particularly extreme example is the beginning of the ’o’ entry:

This says “sisteenth,” not fifteenth.

I’m quite curious; I just judged a book show and there was one entry that also had this strange behavior (also Adobe Caslon), and I was just wondering: How does something like this happen?!

— K.

I think the Arch is my

TypoJunkie — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:27:51 -0800

I think the Arch is my favorite piece, just because of the beautiful letters!

And yeah, Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs were especially extensive. Although there are LOTS of objects with writing on them in the Museum, there are some rooms without a single one (a nice surprise while I was cataloguing) and some rooms were closed for refurbishment during the project, so I had to skip those, luckily.

I enjoyed reading your

jacobh — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:37:57 -0800

I enjoyed reading your booklet; and I’m glad that someone else out there likes “The Triumphant Arch”!

The remainder of your project must have taken an impressive amount of effort. Pretty much every object in the museum has writing on it in one form or another and some of it is quite obscure (the deliberately antiquated cuneiform particularly comes to mind)!

-Jacob

My pleasure guys, sadly it

TypoJunkie — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 10:07:28 -0800

My pleasure guys, sadly it looks better once it’s printed. I had it done in an off-white, slightly textured paper, hand bound, and I used a dark red thicker card for the cover, with gold stamps.

Obviously, if you go to (are in) London, take it to the British Museum and look for the pieces themselves, as nothing compares to the real things. Also, a trip to the Roman and Greek inscriptions is well worth it!

Interesting stuff indeed.

solfeggio — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:21:14 -0800

Interesting stuff indeed. Thanks.

Regards,
Ernie

I’ve only had a chance to

Tomie — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:03:11 -0800

I’ve only had a chance to scan it Antonio, but it looks a marvellous piece and I’ll enjoy reading it a little later.

Thanking you kindly for making it available.

I really like that ’A’.

smongey — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:59:47 -0800

I really like that ’A’. Interesting studies.

Well spotted Don, Thanks.

TypoJunkie — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:22:35 -0800

Well spotted Don, Thanks.

Nice. A typo on line 7 of U

Don McCahill — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:30:59 -0800

Nice. A typo on line 7 of U (related), in case you want a clear copy.

Thank you all. I had a blast

TypoJunkie — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:11:15 -0800

Thank you all. I had a blast making it and I’m really glad fellow typophiles like it!

Cool. I like that a lot. pbc

Paul Cutler — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:08:53 -0800

Cool. I like that a lot.

pbc

Yes, thank you! It was very

Sharon Van Lieu — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:43:35 -0800

Yes, thank you! It was very nicely done.

Sharon

Thanks for that. I enjoyed

Ken Messenger — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:06:08 -0800

Thanks for that. I enjoyed reading it.

Mi little red book

TypoJunkie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:09:22 -0800

Hi guys,

A while ago I mentioned a little book I designed for an MA project on the history of writing. Here is the finished thing (which unfortunately I could not complete in time for the final assessment). The idea, originally, was to design a map to guide type designers through the British Museum to every piece of writing in order for them to get inspiration for typefaces based on historical records. To get it into context:

The project was about the evolution of writing from the very beginnings up until the present days. I mapped the location and characteristics of all the pieces in the British Museum (the ones I could find) that had some for of writing on them. Once I had all the information, I produced a catalogue, which showed the location, characteristics (origin, description of the subject, classification of the object itself, etc) and chronological order. These lists were then divided accordingly in different scripts. The end result was a 20 chapter book listing all the pieces in the Museum, their location and characteristics and a brief introduction to show the reader how every script works/ed (how the characters evolved, where they came from, the culture they developed from, etc.)

Ok, enough rambling.

After the MA, I went back to the British Museum to see what I had learned and went to visit my favourite pieces, copying one character from each. I had LOTS of favourites, but limited myself to five for reasons I won’t go into.

Hope you like it: