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Category Archives: Typography

Positive Space Creates A Negative Outcome

25-Apr-08

One of the most popular posts (so far) on this blog is a piece I wroted and quoted about the Fedex Logo and its designer, Lindon Leader, way back in early September 2006.
Looking at my blog’s stats, I notice that over 16,000 people have stopped by to have a look at that one article [...]

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Günther Reindorff & Villu Toots

23-Mar-08

Evening Landscape, Günther Reindorff, 1944
(Clickety, clickety to make it biggety!)
I think I came across this beautfully wistful mezzotint on Bukowski’s auction website. I can’t be precise because I was not using the researcher’s friend, ClipCache Pro at the time.
Google didn’t yield much on this Estonian artist apart from some rather badly scanned prints. An [...]

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Hans Bacher, Typographer

13-Mar-08

“Architec” Typeface. (Bigger versions of these pictures are available when you click on the thumbnails)
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise, but Hans Bacher has turned his hand to producing a few typefaces in his time.

“Tuscany” Typeface.
When I saw these faces, I had a sort of “Aha!” moment, which was rapidly supplanted [...]

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Clearing The Cellar - David Dabner of the LCP

08-Jan-08

For once, here’s a YouTube video with some intelligent comments appended to it. The subject is the Typography tutor at the old London College of Printing, David Dabner, or “Debner” as the slightly 1950’s style voice over artist pronounces it. The LCP is now known as the London College of Communication, and it’s [...]

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TypeFaces (Type - Faces Geddit?)

28-Sep-07

Figaro; Primer Two Line Ancient; Eight Lines Elongated Sans Series No. 3
From “Typefaces You Won’t Recognise”, a series of witty postcards produced by Paul Belford for the London Type Museum.

Five Lines Pica No. 2; Anglo Saxon; Granby

Eight Lines French Antique No. 1; Seven Lines Open No. 1; Doric No. 3

Eight Lines Thorncliffe No. 2; Expanded [...]

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