Isn't it better for you to decide for yourself?

just to disabuse you, i am NOT a rockstar. just a guy lucky enough to make some $$$ making type. now Joshua Darden, Christian Schwartz, Ken Barber... there you have some real talent! Oh, and there's one thing i can agree with fontplayer on, Alejandro Paul is a script genius! Other designers that I look up to that frequent these boards (in no particular order): Mark Simonson, Nick Shinn, Hrant Papazian, Stuart Sandler, Randy Jones, Christian Robertson and future rockstar Chris Lozos.
For a fuller listing see Typophile type designers

Is the rumor that Herr Spiekermann himself has, and still does, frequented Typophile true?

By the way, Paul: I saw your Kilkenny typeface. Wouldn't it be possible to have a PDF of it? I see most IHOF faces have it.

I grew a fondness for late 19th and early 20th century faces (which I used to quite dislike) in the last year or so, and I collect material.

I have a Coca Cola tray which reproduces a calendar from 1891, and I always guessed if the face used was a lead type. It's "Kilkenny Swash", so the lead original is probably to pre-date at least of 5 years compared to your 1896 dating.

It's better to decide for yourself because it's better to decide who makes the type you admire most yourself. Then it might mean something. Maybe it's just a semantic difference. If you had asked whose type we admire the most that would be easier to answer. When you write 'rock-star' then it feels kinda creepy.

Ahh gotcha. I mean who do you admire I suppose. Rock star just seemed like it would attract more people to the thread. And party I also was thinking these people are sort of famouse in the type industry so i used the term "rock star".

Gerald Giampa (ex owner of Lanston) was kinda rock star styled and frequented this forums alot until he got to sail the seas.

Héctor

Vince Connare of Comic Sans and Trebuchet fame has to be considered. He rides a motorcyle and runs Alienware too!

The most creepy & useless thread! The Ego season? Just delete it!

Utterly pathetic.

Using the word 'rock star' sends off vibes of the whole American 'celebrity' sickness. But to understand who is posting is useful, as Patty says. Someone may give good or bad advice whether they are still a student or have a record of 40 years of accomplishments. Still, I kind of like to know the context, and I think most people do.

I notice that now Identifont.com has pretty good designer profiles; maybe we should have a place on the profile to link to a profile there or elsewhere. That could also be linked on the 'wiki'

> Why exactly?

Don't take it (too) personally.

Let's see ... Cyrus Highsmith - rock star? What about Akira Kobayashi? And John Hudson?
And Jean Francois Porchez? And...And....

Who are the country stars here?

I think Yves is the only real rockstar on here. :^p

In the late 80s I played sheet metal and oil drums in an industrial percussion band called Puke Theatre. But we were about as un-rockstar as you can get.

> A favorite, and more appropriate metaphor: Shoes.

I wonder who the Imelda Marcos of Type is? ;-P

Plus rock stars have an awfully high fatality rate, which wouldn't be good for the typography industry.

lol. who would have known the term rock star to cause so much trouble :\ well besides hotel managers that is. Makes for an interesting read though!

I am the John Barry of type. Loud, brassy, dramatic.

Oh John, how delightfully wretched. It sounds like a sit-com from BBC.

It sort of felt that way at the time. From one of our concerts, a friend's girlfriend had be rushed for emergency dental surgery because the vibration impacted one of her wisdom teeth. At another ill-advised gig our only audience was an old man who had come in for the cheap beer. I have a recording someplace, but it doesn't do any justice to just how bad we were live.

William's more narrow definition of a "rock star" is interesting and clever.

William’s more narrow definition of a “rock star” is interesting and clever.

Yeah, but I don't think you need to be under 30. I would still call Matthew Carter a "rock star." Truth be told, when I was asked to describe him by some of my designer buddies, that was the actual term I could used.

Rock Star=1. Larger than life persona
2. High level of notoriety in your field
3. A person that exudes confidence and/or charisma
4. One who performs rock music for a living and is astronomically successful at doing so

The term "rock star" in and of itself isn't bad, its just the context that its used. Its kind of like talking about how great your "lawnboy" is at a landscaping convention.

"What does that mean, in-famous?"
"In-famous is when you're MORE than famous. This man, he's not just famous, he's IN-famous. "

I am the only type rock star here. Everyone else is too classy.

Choz Cunningham
!Exclamachine Type Foundry
The Snark

:)

Gig before last was a band logo. My most recent font is dedicated to the DIY libertarian real punk bands of the '70s. My next font is inspired by the work of Korn's Johnathan Davis, as well as a classic book from Innovation comics. So thats rock star type, in a way. Well, more appropriately it is progressive trans-media emulation, but really, isn't rock dead?

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Yves fits Choz's definition.
Perhaps the rest of us are between a rock and a hard place :-)

ChrisL