Category: Education
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On the hunt in London for Indian newspapers
Today Yvonne and I went to London in search of Indian newspapers. Specifically, she was looking for examples in the Telugu language, and I was looking for Hindi. I was quite lucky to be with Yvonne, actually. She already knows the city quite well, and has been to the research locations before. First we went…
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Four Reading designers in STEP
I received my copy of the January–February 2008 issue of STEP Inside Design while I was away for the holidays. Inside is an article by Allan Haley entitled “type… four more emerging talents.” This profiles the work of Alice Savoie, Tim Ahrens, myself, and Sandra Winter. I’m studying at Reading now, while the other three…
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What January has been likes so far
I’ve been quiet for a few weeks. After three-quarters of a month in Germany, I returned to England on Tuesday, January 8th. The submission date for our first essay was Monday, January 14th; by the time I arrived back in Reading, I was already in the midst of the writing. So what’s been going on…
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On rain
“One day it started raining, and it didn’t quit for four months. We been through every kind of rain there is. Little bitty stingin’ rain… and big ol’ fat rain. Rain that flew in sideways. And sometimes rain even seemed to come straight up from underneath. Shoo, it even rained at night.” —Forrest Gump
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Fun with Vista
Yesterday, I partitioned my MacBook Pro’s hard drive and installed Windows Vista via Boot Camp. The installation process itself was actually very easy; it was only the preparation that was time consuming. After I decided to add Windows to my Mac, the first step was decide upon a version. I ruled out XP quickly for…
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Uncharted territory!
Well, Devanagari font support on Mac OS X is virtually non-existent. Sure, you can use Monotype Devanagari, but nothing else, at least if you are working with Unicode-encoded text. Monotype Devanagari’s an AAT font; OT isn’t supported yet. But you can’t use AAT on Windows, now can you? In order to make samples of OpenType…
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Happy new year
This isn’t a New Year’s card. Many people seem to enjoy sending out a mass e-mail to everyone they know, wishing them a merry Christmas, a happy Hanukkah, a good new year, or what have you. I appreciate the thought, but I never read these (sorry :( ). A hand-written—or at least hand-typed into the…
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My dissertation proposal
A view of Hindi newspapers and their typefaces In my M.A. dissertation, I will investigate Devanagari text typefaces currently used in Hindi newspapers. This research will allow me to compare the types and their appearances in print, as well as enable me to develop conclusions regarding which design features make certain Devanagari typefaces more appropriate…
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And now I’m even older…
Friday night, three days after my birthday, I threw a small party in my apartment to celebrate. From Tuesday through Friday, we had another busy workshop with Gerard Unger, and by the time it was over, I think we all needed a drink! By my imperfect count, about 15 people came by, from 10 different…
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A tale of two Kreuzbergs
Tomorrow is the second Sunday of Advent. St. Nicholas’s feast day has come and gone—at least for my classmates from Dutch and German-speaking countries—and decorations are slowly going up on houses in my neighborhood. Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas. People here ask me if I’m going to go home for Christmas. This…
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Hold back the rain, Mr. Unger!
Outside, it is raining. But this is England, and mentioning this sort of weather is akin to saying that “the ice in the soda is cold.” No matter; inside, the typography is hot! This week marks the third visit that Gerard Unger has made to the department since we began in October. By now, we…
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First Non-Latin Workshop results
The pressure is on! Even though it isn’t the case that each typeface design student at Reading has tackled a non-Latin component as part of their work, it feels like it. Last week, we rolled up our sleeves and drew out sets of non-Latin scripts for the first time, or at least the first time…
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Tuesdays at Reading
Tuesdays prove more difficult to describe than Mondays. Our schedule includes one constant fixture, followed often by something more vague, whose timeslot cannot be as easily predicted. The constant of course is the weekly lecture by James Mosley at noon. You know James Mosley from The Nymph and the Grot. He also might have the…
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Thanksgiving in Old England
Paul, Dan, and I celebrated Thanksgiving this year in the Oakland’s apartment complex, where Paul, Dan, and Michi are living this year. We invited a big group over; there were 10 of us all. Thankfully, I cooked enough stuffed turkey to feed about 20. Each guest brought something unique, including salad, stuffed mushrooms, sweet potatoes,…
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