With Christmas nearly upon us, I’ve put together a list of books for the designer in your life. Or just treat yourself.
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With an epidemic of charitably patchy face-fuzz sweeping the country, a group of designers and copywriters have gotten in on the Movember action by offering Hairy Lipsum – a placeholder sure to bring that little bit more manliness to your mockups.
It would, of course, be remiss not to mention my own efforts for the cause – all donations welcome!
ROOTING through the CMYK drawers the other day we found two sheets of A4 featuring some rather shaky handwriting that caught our eye. It was a questionnaire filled in for Caledonia magazine by the maverick poet, singer and harmonium player Ivor Cutler.
The ailing genius’s answers, posted to his native Scotland from his adopted home in north London, never made it into print because Caledonia, a glossy consumer magazine that we had much fun producing for five years, folded shortly afterwards. Two and a half years later, on 3 March 2006, Cutler himself passed away aged 83. But now that his characteristically whimsical responses to the magazine’s standard questions have been rediscovered, it seems only right to share them.
Matt had the ink and paintbrushes out this morning for a spot of custom lettering. Whether any of it will make it to print is yet to be seen but I thought I’d share a teeny snippet.
Always nice to get away from the Mac and draw something when you can.
Check out this fabulous post over on Typetoken showing a great bit of large-scale typesetting. The ‘Comedy Carpet’ was envisaged by artist Gordon Young in response to a commission from Blackpool Council. The typography was by Why Not Associates.
“Linotype: The Film” Official Trailer from Linotype: The Film on Vimeo.
John Boardley is a designer with a passion for typography – so much so, in fact, that he’s making a film about one particular iconic piece of typesetting equipment: the Linotype.
The trailer looks interesting and we’d love to see how this spins out to a full-length programme.
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