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Posted by Andy Martin in
22 Feb 2007 — 9:57am
22 Feb 2007 — 9:57am
Hi I was never good at describing myself, but I'' give it a go.
I'm from a town called Rochdale in England. I'm a fully trained Graphic Designer and my work consists mainly of font design and typography. I'm here to learn and give advice if I can.
Cheers for listening.
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22 Feb 2007 — 10:22am
Hi Andy, welcome home :-)
ChrisL
22 Feb 2007 — 10:24am
Ah, Rochdale: immortalized in a wonderful song by 10CC.... ;-)
22 Feb 2007 — 10:37am
Thankyou for making me feel welcome, I'm an admin on a graphics forum so the conversation is as you guessed about Graphic Design, for the most part. It will be nice to mix with people who do the same work as me and share the same interest - type.
Thanks again
PS - Linda, Rochdale should UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE be immortaized.
22 Feb 2007 — 11:17am
If you were a typeface, which one would you be? ;-)
22 Feb 2007 — 11:30am
It would either have to be one of these
Monogram English,
Big Caslon
Bank Gothic
I'm torn between the three.
22 Feb 2007 — 11:49am
Muy money was on Bank Gothic :-)
ChrisL
22 Feb 2007 — 12:12pm
It's a real struggle to choose. I wonder what an amalgamation of the three would look like…
22 Feb 2007 — 2:00pm
That would be a bizarre transpolation experiment :-)
ChrisL
22 Feb 2007 — 2:02pm
Big English Gothic!
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22 Feb 2007 — 2:32pm
Maybe I'll try when I have some time spare
22 Feb 2007 — 3:01pm
Welcome Andy.
Or should that amalgamation be Caslon's Bank Monogram? So many choices, so little time...
Presumably you're not up for any Mike Harding jokes either? I can't remember what it sounded like, but it's a fun picture.
22 Feb 2007 — 3:20pm
10CC….
You mean the one that goes " i don't like cricket... I love it."
22 Feb 2007 — 4:10pm
That guy looks like my mate down at my local.
22 Feb 2007 — 7:22pm
You mean the one that goes ” i don’t like cricket… I love it.”
Right album, wrong song. You're thinking of Dreadlock Holiday -- the album is Bloody Tourists. ;-)
It's been digitally remastered to CD and has an extra track from the playlist -- brilliant album....
22 Feb 2007 — 9:29pm
I remember the Bloody Tourists ads in Creem magazine... pretty funny ads as I recall. Most likely Hipgnosis were behind 'em, as they did a few 10cc album covers.
And welcome to Typophile, Weeman!
22 Feb 2007 — 9:36pm
Rochdale, hmm. My whole family are from there, and most of them still live there.
23 Feb 2007 — 8:34am
Have they been known to frequent the Baum (off Toad Lane), if so I probaly know them.
Thanks for the warm welcomes everyone, it's most appreciated.