It is a bit embarrassing to admit, but in my mind’s ear, Paul Luna and Paul Shaw have somehow merged together. Now, I do really know the difference between these two eminent men: Paul Luna is a typography professor at the University of Reading, and a master theorist and practician. Paul Shaw, on the other side of the Atlantic, is an author, calligrapher, letterer, teacher, typographer, and typeface designer. I have met both Pauls several times. Still, whenever I read any of Paul Shaw’s remarkable Blue Pencil blog posts, the voice inside my head is not Paul Shaw’s own, but rather Paul Luna’s. Thanks to the Internet, you may now hear the sonorous voices of Luna and Shaw for yourself. On River Valley TV, there is video of Paul Luna’s Integrating Latin and non–Latin text: a designer’s perspective talk from the 2007 St Bride Library/University of Reading Non-Latin typeface design conference. Meanwhile, AIGA New York has video of Paul Shaw moderating Navigating the Labyrinth: Unimark International and the New York City Subway System. Sorry, guys … no doubt that I will someday attribute Paul Hunt’s typefaces to my fictional typographic über-Paul.
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5 responses to “Voices in my head, some confusion”
I had similar difficulties with Paul Barnes, Phil Baines and Peter Bain. Now sorted out.
Both Paul D. Hunt and Paul van der Laan just did it right by adding something between the Paul and the (four letter) surname!
Ah, that must be while I can still tell them apart, then. Good point!
Florian, there have also been a few female typographers that I have confused like that. But I really am too embarrassed to write their names down…
Florian, I always thought they are one person. Nowadays, I do better, I think they are two.