ben, saint loius, envy. one of the places on my list that i still need to visit some day. and not just for the food.

grant:
In the meantime, why don't you build a few end tables or plant stands?

sorry grant, i don't get it. english is not my native language.

Here's my "workspace" at home. It's not very Typophilic at the moment.

Cleaning did not happen. This is pretty much what it normally looks like.

Close-ups of the collection of junk (dust and all) on top of the desk can be found at

http://www.patricialillie.com/junk/

Sweet mother of pearl!

Well,

We are negotiating on new office space. I thought maybe one of you would like to rent space from me. A good lease would help with the payments and raise the money. Take a number, don't push.

And no, I am not joking. People think I always am. I don't know where they got that idea from.

Capt. Giampa,

That ship is a beautiful floating office.

I 'm not sure that you are going to get any work done when you out sailing the in the Turku Archipelago in Finland.

I do not require physical office space in Finland but what would the cost be to use it as a branch office. Would a small brass plaque with a branch office name be acceptable affixed to the ship.
And no, I am not joking.

What great letterhead that would make with the latitude and longitude address of the Finnish branch office.

gln

Gerald,

You want to buy a used font company? And no, I am not joking. People think I always am. I don't know where they got that idea from.

We could talk plaque for sure.

Gerald Giampa

Gerald

I keep telling you that from the moment a boat is launched it spends every waking moment trying to get to the bottom.

But best of luck with this one.

Jim

Patricia

It's Magnificent!


Jim Rimmer

This is my corner at work.



You guys don't want to see my mess at home

Jim: Magnificent is not a word often applied. Frightening, Pathetic. Those I"ve heard. I like magnificent much better.

Grant: That's sort of a cleaned up version of what my sister (whom we refer to as "Martha on Crack." Yes, that Martha.) said last time she was here.

Now you all know why I am so impressed by your spartan neatness.The thing is, I don't even see the mess until something forces me to look at it. Like taking a picture. I'm thinking moving might be easier than cleaning...

patricia: great way to store tomatoes for winter! thanks for the idea! Btw, is that singing bob, the fish, i see there?

Jesus that's better than my little corner in Brixton London... I'll have to get a pic of that soon... it's hot as hell where i sit.. Air Conditioning? what's that?

New here, but I suppose this works as an introduction. Since Patricia paved the way, and since I apparently have no shame, here's my chaos. Sorry the pic's so big, but there's a lot of chaos.

I like your rationalist quotes.

hhp

After procrastination, it's what I do best.

your windows look like the flat...apartment I had in Fremont... in 2000........ you ain't on 39th and between FremontAve and near the George&Dragon???

Ha -- no, I'm on the other end of town (south), in the Columbia City neighborhood. I know exactly where you're talking about, though. Used to live just across the canal from Fremont.

Vincent,

nice tv. what's going on with Liverpool?





David Hamuel

...and which red wine does one serve with Pringles, anyway? A hearty chianti, perhaps?

Well I was on the south hill in Queen Anne near Tower for a good 6 years or more.. can't wait to eat and see my friends at Uptown China near the Key arena.. after seeing so many bridges in London I HATE Fremont bridge.. My favourite London bridge is Vauxhall Bridge since it is where the MI6 and James Bond building is..

http://www.explore-london.co.uk/vaube.html

Which flavor of Pringles?
Certainly the regular flavor is too mild for anything but a Beaujolais Nouveau.
The season's coming up in 2-3 months, so stock up on your Pringles!

hhp

Hrant, in Vincent's photo it looks like the regular flavor. Beaujolais Nouveau it is, then.

Vincent, I had my fill of the Fremont bridge too. Every time I was late for a meeting, the bridge seemed to know, and choose that moment to go up. Never failed, I tell you.

Liverpool playing my Spurs.. right now.. 0-0...ManU v Wolves...Wolve are going back down...

Tv is Sony showing Fox baseball A's v BlueJays on NASN..(North American sports network).. Paul Allen owns it... thank god!

Wine is a ok Tesco Chianti (denominazione de origine controlatta e garantita) .. yes.. had some nice reds in Tuscany at the beginning of Aug.. Rather have a nice German or Seattle beer thought.

yeh because some twat thought, oh I have... to move my little boat with BIG mast across the street.. Pringles are Original.. they say Crisps on them and 'savory snack' that word 'savory' is very English and bugs me... and the can is English.. but the website on it only has USA, Germany, Italy and Russia on it..!!!! What could there be on a Pringles website????

I miss the Fremont Bridge :-( I'd take it any day over that engineering marvel the I-90 floating bridge I take to work every day.

But I'm sure both Meredith and yourself would agree that N. Seattle easily beats S. Seattle in terms of quantity and quality of bridges.

Si

Yeh Si but I love driving over the Vauxhall bridge looking at the MI6 building better than being hit by the water from lake Washington...and slipping in the grooves of 590 Bridge..(shite did I forget it's name already?)

Meredith: Wow! Thank you for posting that. I knew I wasn't the only one. You are quite brave. I didn't dare show the rest of my room, which is no better than the desk area. I can obviously relate to "maybe tomorrow."

aeolist: The other lamp contains action figures from "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," hence the tomatoes in its mate. And, no, that's not a talking fish. It's carved and painted wood and I have no clue where I got it or why I have it.

I'm looking at all these pictures thinking, "I want big windows," and "I want big tables." Then I realize I'd have to wash the windows and big tables only provide more surface for clutter. However, my favorites are the hammock and the boat.

Capt. Giampa,


"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.

The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.

The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Minnow would be lost, the Minnow would be lost

The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan, The Skipper too,
The millionaire and his wife,
The movie star,
The professor and Mary Ann [and Typophile]
Here on Gilligan's Isle....
.......







David Hamuel

Vincent Quote: "Well I was on the south hill in Queen Anne near Tower for a good 6 years or more.. can't wait to eat and see my friends at Uptown China near the Key arena.. after seeing so many bridges in London I HATE Fremont bridge.. My favourite London bridge is Vauxhall Bridge since it is where the MI6 and James Bond building is.. "


MI6 is real? Heh. I've been watching MI5 on A&E for the last couple weeks, and I've heard of MI5 before, but when they mentioned MI6 I was confused. Are there also MIs 1 through 4?

David,

Thank you so very, very much for reminding me of that stupid song.
Now I'll have it stuck in my head for days. :-(

Oh, well. Did you know you can sing it to the tune of Amazing Grace?

You can also sing "Amazing Grace" to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club song. And many of Emily Dickinson's poems can be sung to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas."

useless trivia,
Meredith

Mark,

you're welcome!

by the way - during the first season - the second to last line was "and the rest" - since Dawn Wells & Russell Johanson didn't have it specified in their contracts that they would be credited up front with the rest of the cast.

[closing credits]

So this is the tale of the castaways......






David Hamuel

Some little-know facts about the Castaways.

* The Professor was a mean Linotype operator...
before being shipwrecked.

* Mary Ann was one of the original Alphabettys.

* Ginger was Pierre Bezier's model for his first bezier curves.

* Gilligan was an intern at Photo Lettering.

* The Skipper worked at ITC and released more than 100
typefaces with obese x-heights, before that was fashionable.

* The Howells, they were rich, and had no connection
to the type industry.


file this in the "sorry, I couldn't resist, I'll regret it later" category.


bj

I notice that Meredith also has an Aeron chair. Aren't they just the best chairs! No matter how messy your workspace gets, you can still smug 'Heh, I've got an Aeron chair'. (And yes, this may be the first use of smug as a verb.)

Aerons are pretty great -- a lot of my RSI problems cleared up after getting it. Is yours blue, or is that the rug showing through? I got sandstone (brown), as my office has a wood-and-beige thing going on. Well, it does when it's clean, anyway.

And Patricia, don't sweat not having big tables. They don't solve the clutter problem -- they enable it. (cf. my office)

My Aeron chair is black -- well, a kind of charcoal grey actually. It was the only colour in stock, but that's okay because everyone knows that if something is black it goes faster.

Black makes things worth more, too.

OK David,

You signing on for the crossing or what?

Did you look at the ship that is not for sale.
http://www.lanstontype.com/HelsinkiShip.html

Gerald Giampa

BJ,

"sorry, I couldn't resist, I'll regret it later" (You bet you will)


Geezus, just what I hate, a bunch of landlubbers.

Probably you all wear umbrellas and galoshes when you take a shower. Enjoy your athlete's foot.

No more booze for you BJ, I'll be striking you off my yachting list.

Gerald Giampa

MI5 = FBI
MI6 (SIS) = CIA

nice pic of the MI6 building..
http://www.five.org.uk/security/mi6org/

Beaujolais Nouveau:

Something I cant stomach.

Now this: http://www.wine.com/product/display.asp?PProduct_ID=BWNLAFITERD_2000&apl=Bordeaux&vrl=Red+Bordeaux

A WS 100? Are you kidding me?
I actually had the bottle of '95, a serious wine.
That is a real juice. ;)

If I had a little more money right now I would pick up that bottle. Gonna be worth some SERIOUS money in another decade.
hildebrant.

> Something I cant stomach.

You have to be in the mood. Try it in Paris in November.

hhp

don't really occupy one in particular very often, often its the sofa, the barstool, the cafe, the library...too much of a floater perhaps. but:

Aquatoad Worldwide, employees: 1
Here's the new headquarters.
BTW, that quilted wall hanging was
handmade by my grandmother.
She was a pretty hip lady.

Randy

My god, people, where do you put all your paper?!

;)

> You have to be in the mood. Try it in Paris in November

Your such a player Hhp. ;)

I still have never had a glass I would consider drinking by myself, and I have been to two or three of the celebrations.

hildebrant

Here's the summer studio. Dial-up Internet only, but the apples are lovely.

....and the letter A/Alef







David Hamuel

Well, here's another score for the PC users. I was going to wait until I cleaned, but that's not happening in the near future. It's not messy so much as it's just plain squalid.

Nathan:

Too few people today place due value on a bit of really good squalor.

I have no means to scan a photo to add this thread, so I escape being exposed. My workplace, by its hardware nature is always a tad messy. Your place looks warm and creative.

Don't let anything upset its fragile ecology.

Jim Rimmer

After I've cleaned it, my current studio looks remarkably similar to Nathan's living room (perhaps we are kindred spirits). My previous studio, however, had another type of charm. This photo is taken from the studio, looking East toward Mt. Baker, at about 6:00 in the morning during Summer. The strip of red/orange near the bottom is Haro Strait, which separates Vancouver Island from mainland Washington state and the province of British Columbia. I was encouraged to send this in after seeing John Hudson's beautiful studio view. No aeron chair, no apples, but loads of inspiration.

As you can see, a bit of a fetish for steel...

mmmmmm, Aluminum Group.

Fine, this is how it looks when i have to draw letters, i settle up a small intermitent paradise.

What's that book?

hhp

Manual de Dise

Hey, I have that! It's a great work indeed.
It looks like I need to go through it again...

hhp

wow i carnt belive how messy some of youre places are i thought my place was a dump mess but my place is a place compared 2 some of youres but on over hand some of youre places do look coll sometime ill post mine

I think I need some funiture and something up the walls.

--Jacques

So what's that "g" about? It's my favorite "g" structure, and extremely rare.

hhp

I am busy working on a narrow transitional face.

--Jacques

Your 4 type samples in your website are quite nice! good job Jacques.

Merci Jean-Fran(ccedille)ois,

tes polices ne pas mauvaises non plus, :

So how did you decide to do the "g" like that?
BTW, assuming you're interested in precedents, you might like to look at Oxford/Monticello and ATF Clearface (the original metal, not the later ITC version) for that extremely rare feature. In comparison, the Baskerville and Kelper forms are almost apologetic.

hhp

I once made a handdrawn transitional face for a corporate design (first presentation). I liked the vitality and character of it.

It had to have some humor and whit. Now I am trying to translate this and the vitality of tha handdrawn version into a face. Which should be narrow, but readable.

I always liked making this kind of g's. (And you gain a little bit of space, by making the ear on top)

--Jacques

PS: I love fleischmanns g as well.

> It had to have some humor and whit.

And the ear does that well.
But to me the open-bottom bowl actually makes the letter fit better in the Latin alphabet as a whole.

hhp

But to me the open-bottom bowl actually makes the letter fit better in the Latin alphabet as a whole.

When I am deciding, if a g should have an open bowl or not, this depends on the design. I am more a subjective designer than a theoritical one.

For example, I would probably prefer a closed bowl for a design, based on expansion strokes. But that depends on the given problem, for which the face is being made. Like sometimes making an italic g in a roman face is the better solution.

--Jacques

I enjoyed this thread very much. So I took a pic of my small corner at the living room.

Romesh, I know this slightly off topic, but does that bit of wood help much with heat dispersion with your TiBook?

Not really, David. only when I use small programs.
BTW. Jaques uses the same techique.

David, the Ti book is hot sometimes, but, I can assure you that it work well, with temperature for higher that 35

I suffered only minimal overheating, which I think was due to my technique.

---jacques

R

Thanks guys for the interesting view into your offices and work spaces.
Great to see it and think its all around the world gathered by one thought (even if in different directions): type.
Wonder what Bodoni or Goudy would have said...

Cheers
Stefan

They would probably curse those demonic machines everyone has sitting on their desks. ;)