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Type design notes
Some work and some thoughts on type design, typography, and other issues.
25 October 2015
Jumbling up different-width variants of letters – constituting the heart of The New School's new identity designed by Paula Scher.
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11 January 2013
Slipcase cover for William Eggleston's
Los Alamos Revisited.
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11 February 2012
Fraktur letters which I made for The Brill typeface designed for the publisher Brill by John Hudson.
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20 December 2011
Tiptoe accompanies Frans Masareel's woodcuts in new editions of
La Ville and
Mon Livre d'heures.
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11 November 2011
Slipcase cover for William Eggleston's
Chromes.
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25 October 2011
The gilded lettering on the front side of the Opera in Paris features an interesting inconsistency, differently constructed O and Q.
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6 October 2010
Giovanni de Faccio's and Lui Karner's df Rialto dancing with DecoType's Naskh in Robert Bringhurst's
Everywhere Being is Dancing.
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10 September 2010
A little KLTF discount coupon, nicely printed by Letterpress 77, in the ATypI 2010 goodie bag.
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12 August 2010
Tiptoe, Litteratra and Grotext in
Typodarium 2010.
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31 October 2008
Not about type design or font production, yet:
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23 July 2007
Not about type design, strictly speaking, but about digital typography: about WPF and 'flow documents'.
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3 May 2007
An early version of Grotext on and in Christoph Heuer's comic adaptation of Klaus Kordon's
Der erste Frühling.
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11 October 2006
Litteratra on the impressive banner for ATypI 2006 Lisbon at the Faculdade de Belas Artes.
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7 September 2005
Spacing Issues is s text on fine typographic spacing and the merits of spacing punctuation marks generously. Since English speaking typographers claim that this may be ok for European but definitely not British or American typography, I try to show that until just a few decades ago, punctuation marks indeed were spaced in both British and American books.
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1998
Customized digital books on demand · Issues in the creation of a flexible document format suggests a document format which combines the typographic finesse of PDF and the flexibility of HTML/CSS. (Some ten years later, Microsoft's WPF appeared to be
my dream come true, if only for a while, followed by HTML5/CSS3.)
The article can be found in
Visible Language, 32.2, Rhode Island, 1998, pp 128–149.
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