Category: Interviews & Reviews
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Buy Spatium #5
Two years in the making, the fifth issue of Spatium magazine is now being shipped. Named »Hamburgefonts«, the issue tracks the state of type specimens. Following on the heals of issue four—a smaller piece that represented Spatium’s first venture into serious typographic theory—»Hamburgefonts« was worth the wait. Having played a small role in the development…
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It’s Out Now!
The Press Release Text The third issue of Building Letters is dedicated to Sri Lanka and Thailand, and it features interesting articles by Tom de Gay, Nick Shinn, Max Kisman, Fiona Ross and Donald Beekman. As usual, it also contains a CD with 25 free fonts, this time donated by Pieter van Rosmalen, Seonil Yun,…
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Writing Lessons from the Koch Book
Das Schreiben als Kunstfertigkeit About a year and a half ago, I purchased a copy of Das Schreiben als Kunstfertigkeit online. A German book on calligraphy, perhaps the German book on calligraphy, DSaKf (an acronym I just made up…) was written by Rudolf Koch during the early 1920s. The book’s title could be roughly translated…
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Buy this Magazine, #2
Linotype began distributing the second issue of the Linotype Matrix at TYPO Berlin 2006. This issue’s cover story reports on the life and work of W. A. Dwiggins (the article was written by Paul Shaw, and designed by Tiffany Wardle). But you should really buy the magazine to read my photoessay on historic type specimen…
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Buy this Magazine!
The second issue of Slanted.de’s print magazine was released just before the TYPO Berlin conference. Topping off at almost 200 pages, it revolves around western fonts. I contributed a short article on two of Adobe’s woodtype faces, Mesquite and Rosewood. The magazine is available directly from its designers. Order it today! I must admit that…
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First samples of Mountain in use
I’ve just received a copy Mountain’s first use in a printed publication. The beautiful book Bastard: Choose My Identity uses is on a few of its lushus pages. Below is my favorite spread: The type also appears in two other locations… here… …and in the specimen section. Order the book at the Bastard project website!
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Der Typ, der immer alles schräg stellt
Interview mit Uwe Loesch 11. Juni 2005, von David Borchers und Lukas Schneider. Anlässlich der Ausstellung „Hans Hillmann. HaltMale – vom Plakat zum Bildroman“, die vom 17. April bis zum 12. Juni 2005 im Klingspor-Museum in Offenbach zu sehen war, besuchte Uwe Loesch, Professur für Kommunikationsdesign an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, mit seiner Klasse das…
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Die Wallau Schriftprobe
Between 1924 and 1930, Rudolf Koch designed the Wallau type family for the Klinsgpor foundry. Wallau is a rotunda-style blackletter face (rundgotisch) with two sets of capitals: a gothic (deutsche Großbuchstaben) and an uncial version. The gothic is quite “old-German” in its appearance, while the uncial works more like an odd Italian sans serif. The…
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