Category: Interviews & Reviews
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Geo.Type history in Slanted 7
The newest issue of Slanted, the über-typography magazine from Karlsruhe, Germany, is now out. This is their seventh issue, and the first of 2009. Three more are planned to be released before Christmas, making this their year, hands down. Slanted can better be described as a phenomenon, rather than any specific thing. Begun as a…
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Best Christmas mail ever
Speaking for myself (at the very least), I get very little in the way of Christmas mail directed to me at Linotype. But today, coming into the office for the first time since before Christmas Eve, I had a great little package waiting for me from Prof. Ralf de Jong. Here are some pictures to…
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Out now: slanted magazine #6
The sixth issue of slanted magazine has been released at the German bookfair in Frankfurt, Germnay. For the first time the award-winning typography magazine has been issued in offset. We could upgrade the previously recognized type- and image-quality of slanted – our partner E & B Engelhardt and Bauer is one of the most high-performance…
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This title might get lost in translation…
The fifth issue of the German Slanted magazine is finally for sale, and you’d best hurray and place your order today; as far as I know, there are less than 200 copies left. Slanted.de is a blog run by a nest of collective graphic design energy eminating from the southwestern German city of Karlsruhe. A…
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On the terror of glyphs and the joy of reading
What is it like to be a typeface design student? It is both wonderful and wonderfully depressing. You can—and will—spend days looking at a few letters, knowing that their design is bad. They are neither what you had intended nor even what you had managed to to capture fleetingly in a quick sketch (this is…
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Addition to my library: U&lc
Here is the newest addition to my library: U&lc: Influencing Design and Typography. A bit late, I know… the book was published back in 2004, and since then I’ve seen it numerous times at various conferences and bookstores. I kept putting an acquisition off; I figured, there would always be time (and money!) to buy…
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New Linotype Matrix issue!
One of my favorite Linotype projects has always been the Linotype Matrix! Linotype releases this journal “from time to time,” and the third issue is now available. I have the privilege to co-edit and art direct the Linotype Matrix together with Nadine Chahine and Otmar Hoefer; this issue’s cover story is a 20-page article on…
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Small East German writing manual
Yesterday in a small used bookstore on the Oranienstraße, I found a small booklet on lettering in the Buchwesen section. This is Karl-Heinz Lange’s Schrift: schreiben, zeichnen, konstruieren, schneiden, malen. Eine praktische Anleitung. The book was published in Leipzig by the VEB E.A. Seeman Verlag in 1965. It’s dimensions are 19cm high by 11.9cm wide.…
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Monotype Recorder v36 n1
My newest toy arrived in the mail yesterday – volume 36/number 1 of the Monotype Recorder, from 1937. The issue’s cover story is on “Blackletter: its Origin & Current Use.” The article is a short summation of how blackletter developed out of the Carolingian Minuscule, and how French blackletters from the 15th century would be…
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Recent intervew
A few months back, Jon Nagle, a graduate student at Savannah College of Art and Design, interviewed me for a type design class project. Here it is… When Dan Reynolds, born in Baltimore in 1979, went off to the Rhode Island School of Design as a freshman in 1997, he had no desire to become…
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Typography with feeling
The newest edition of Slanted arrived in my mailbox this week! This is the fourth issue in what is turning out to be quite an important element of the German design scene. Slanted is the only German design magazine that is not dedicated to celebrating boring corporate studios and their portfolios, announcing who has become…
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Post Typography; Baltimore rocks
I was born and raised in northeast Baltimore, Maryland. But I never worked as a designer there; I went to school in Rhode Island, and pulled stints working in Chicago, Providence, and Washington, DC before settling in Germany. While I was at RISD, I learned that Ellen Lupton was creating a graphic design program at…
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Hear Doyald Young
On February 2, Debbie Millman interviewed Doyald Young on her American radio program, Design Matters. Doyald Young may be the don of American calligraphers and letterers. A long-time professor at Art Center College of Design in California, he is a slightly younger contemporary of Hermann Zapf. Listening to Debbie Millman’s interview, it seems that 2006…
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Slanted 3—Now For Sale
My copy of the newest Slanted just arrived in the mail. Like the last issue, this one features an article of mine. The article recaps a lettering project I undertook in 2004 at the HfG Offenbach, which has been written up on TypeOff. twice, here and here. The issue, Slanted #3 Handmade Custom Script may…
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