Try contacting the folks at House Industries. They purchased the Photo Lettering film fonts collection. From their site:
HOUSE PURCHASES PHOTO-LETTERING COLLECTION
House Industries has purchased one of the largest collections of film based display typography from New York-based Photo-Lettering, Inc. Photo-Lettering was a mainstay of the advertising and design industry in New York City from 1938 into the early 1990s. PLINC, as it was affectionately known to countless art directors, was one of the earliest and most successful type houses to utilize photo technology in the production of commercial typography and lettering. It employed such design luminaries as Ed Benguiat and sold type drawn by the likes of Herb Lubalin, Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast. The company is best know by most of today's graphic designers for its ubiquitous type catalogs it produced.
If you're fortunate enough to be hanging about London next week, Rich Roat of House Industries is giving a presentation at Typotechnica 2005 entitled Photo-Lettering: Back To The Future.
More information is available on the Linotype site.
Photo-Lettering: Back to the Future House Industries purchased the what remained of the Photo-Lettering display type collection in 2003. They have since partnered with dutch type master and visionary Erik van Blokland and prolific designer Christian Schwartz to revive the collection and create a new portal for vending the timeless classics as well as new creations. Rich Roat describes how the PLINC partnership will combine the timeless creativity of the original PLINC contributing artists with a modern technology to make some of the more unique elements of the collection available again.
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8.Feb.2005 4.36pm
Try contacting the folks at House Industries. They purchased the Photo Lettering film fonts collection. From their site:
HOUSE PURCHASES PHOTO-LETTERING COLLECTION
House Industries has purchased one of the largest collections of film based display typography from New York-based Photo-Lettering, Inc. Photo-Lettering was a mainstay of the advertising and design industry in New York City from 1938 into the early 1990s. PLINC, as it was affectionately known to countless art directors, was one of the earliest and most successful type houses to utilize photo technology in the production of commercial typography and lettering. It employed such design luminaries as Ed Benguiat and sold type drawn by the likes of Herb Lubalin, Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast. The company is best know by most of today's graphic designers for its ubiquitous type catalogs it produced.
http://houseind.com/house.php?page=news
9.Feb.2005 10.19am
Thanks Marc, if nobody else can help me I guess House Industries is my only chance to get the information I requested.
9.Feb.2005 2.14pm
If you're fortunate enough to be hanging about London next week, Rich Roat of House Industries is giving a presentation at Typotechnica 2005 entitled Photo-Lettering: Back To The Future.
More information is available on the Linotype site.
http://www.linotype.com/8-2358-8/linotypetypotechnica2005.html
9.Feb.2005 6.39pm
Did anybody happen to notice this tidbit?
Photo-Lettering: Back to the Future
House Industries purchased the what remained of the Photo-Lettering display type collection in 2003. They have since partnered with dutch type master and visionary Erik van Blokland and prolific designer Christian Schwartz to revive the collection and create a new portal for vending the timeless classics as well as new creations. Rich Roat describes how the PLINC partnership will combine the timeless creativity of the original PLINC contributing artists with a modern technology to make some of the more unique elements of the collection
available again.