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I love typography

On 26 September, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Typography

I bought some books from Book Depository the other week and two of them were typography related, Mike Perry’s Hand Job and The Handy Book of Artistic Printing. I really relish these books because I don’t often by them for myself, and I’d [...]

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Save handwriting!

On 22 September, 2009 · 1 Comment · In Design, Typography

This quote from Drawn! makes me sad:
The decline of cursive is happening as students are doing more and more work on computers, including writing. In 2011, the writing test of the National Assessment of Educational Progress will require 8th and 11th graders to [...]

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Lettering by hand

On 28 July, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Typography

Lately I’ve really been getting into hand lettering. I’m totally inspired by Marian Bantjes, Linzie Hunter and Chris Piascik amongst a few others. For a long time I’ve felt either overwhelmed or just flat out imprisoned by computer fonts, so I’m enjoying the freedom of shaping my own words.

These are a few of my [...]

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I’m about to betray myself…

On 17 August, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Typography

I am a really daggy font nerd. I was browsing through a bridal accessories brochure today, and I came across the most amazing typeface. After doing a little bit of digging, it was identified as Affair, by Umbrella Type. It looks like it could have been based [...]

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