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Post Graduate TypeDesign Education

Hi. I am curios to know your opinion and recommendations about the different offers in advanced/post graduate education for Type Design. I am aware of the programs at Reading University in England and the one at Royal Academie in Holland. Are there ...

Forum topic - Giovanni Jubert - 22 Feb 2008 - 1:58pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

TypeDesign: Tools & Books

I’am a graphic designer and in near future i’am considering to create a Font. So i have to watch out for good design-tools - I know TypeTool, but what you think about FontLab? I used TypeTool to integrate some customer logos - but i gues ...

Forum topic - ag_alexgrimm - 16 Nov 2007 - 11:38am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

Newbie in typedesign: Please comment on my work- Polo

Hi all, I am a graphic design student and new in the field of typography. Your suggestions and comments on my work will really help me a lot. The fonts I worked on are inspired from the shape of Polo mint. Regards, Typomaniac Attac ...

Forum topic - typomania - 26 Oct 2007 - 11:58pm - 1 comment - 4 attachments

The perfect LaserPrint for Typedesign

Hello to every one. I need to purchase a good b/w Laser print for test my first humanist sans design (texts for magazines and newspapers, 8-12 pts) so im looking for successful testimonial history. The closer offset emulation, the better... I ...

Forum topic - Miguel Hernandez - 20 Jan 2007 - 7:26pm - 3 comments - 0 attachments

The 'magic' of type-design.

In light of recent events...I have been asking myself a question. That maybe someone would give their 2 cents. 1. How is the character of a new type ’extrapolated’ from it’s purpose. How lets say, a text type for a newspape ...

Forum topic - Eric_West - 15 Dec 2005 - 1:09pm - 31 comments - 0 attachments

Typedesign subjects in Barcelona??

Im going for a 4 days holding-hands-with-my-wife-without-daughter-between-us-trip to Barcelona in Februrary. Does any of you know good places to go? anything would be of interest. Design, typography, THE restaurant, art, loving people, etc. Ni ...

Forum topic - nicolaj - 27 Jan 2004 - 6:04am - 7 comments - 0 attachments

Imprimerie F.Schmidt, 1908

Hi there, I’m starting a Revival Project and I fell in love with a very nice French Type from a book made in the 1908, the editor is Louis-Michaud, the “Imprimerie” is F.Schmidt and they were working in Paris. I would like to know ...

Forum topic - lookleft - 2 Oct 2007 - 9:45am - 4 comments - 0 attachments

Sofa: a cosy typeface

Dear forum members, besides Terra Nova , I have started another Typeface out of an urge to do “something different”. After doing some pencil-drawings of some letters, I started working on “Sofa – a cosy typeface”. It ...

Forum topic - Sebastian Nagel - 25 Jun 2008 - 1:28pm - 70 comments - 16 attachments

Cut and then curved

I am looking for examples of typefaces that that use the curve & cut interior shapes shown here. Urbana is one. This sample is from Malaga by Xavier Dupré It looks a little like a calligraphic interior married to a typographic ex ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 4 Feb 2008 - 6:50pm - 104 comments - 0 attachments

Looking for wooden/decorative type

I’m looking for wooden/decorative type similar to the white text in the H&F-J logo on their site. Anything similar to this style would we very useful. I’ve trawled through dafont and a few other free font sites and haven’t been abl ...

Forum topic - smongey - 25 Jul 2008 - 12:24pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments