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Memorial Stadium Lettering
Memorial Stadium served as the principal venue for Major League Baseball and NFL Football in Baltimore for decades. Built as an expansion of previous stadiums on 33rd Street, Memorial Stadium was dedicated in 1950. Its most impressive external element was a large ornamental facade. Designed by L. P. Cook and Company Architects, the facade stated…
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Next Year In Brighton
Just Announced: Next year’s ATypI’s conference will be hosted in Brighton, in the UK, sometime in Septmber. More details will surely follow… on the ATypI website, and elsewhere. The news release on the ATypI mailing list mentioned the specific location, too: the Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton. TypeOff.’s ATypI 2006…
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Go to this Conference!
Endlich ist es soweit: die neue Website für die Tage der Typografie 2007 ist online! Klick hier, um dich anzumelden. Das Motto wird »Noblesse oblique« sein, und einige Referenten bzw. Workshops stehen schon fest. Ab jetzt könnt ihr euch anmelden – es gibt wieder einen Frühbucherrabatt bis einschließlich zum 28. Februar 2006. Die Veranstaltung selbst…
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Next Stop, Bucharest
On November 22, a colleague and of mine and I will give a presentation at the first BrandCamp conference in Bucharest, Romania. Entitled “Face It. Keys to Success,” the presentation will deal—oddly enough—with Corporate Type and branding. Our presentation’s description: In a dialogue concerning your brand’s success, Linotype reveals the key Corporate Type factors to…
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Offenbacher Helvetica Vortrag
Ein Vortragsabend findet am Donnerstag, den 30. November 2006 um 19.00 Uhr im Klingspor Museum statt. Dr. Walter Greisner spricht zu dem Thema: Die Schrift HELVETICA. Ein weltweiter Erfolg Langjähriger Vorstand der D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt am Main, ist Walter Greisner, der vor seinem Jurastudium Schriftsetzen und Drucken lernte, mit der Geschichte der Schrift eng…
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Some Letters in Cologne
Last week, I was in Cologne (or Köln), and I felt the need to take a lot of pictures. I’ve been to Cologne about a dozen times over the past five years, but I rarely have found the time to photograph much of anything. Cologne has a rich history, going back two thousand years, and…
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No, It Isn’t…
This picture to the left may be the most delightful typographic oxymoron I’ve yet to encounter. A sign for an art gallery in Cologne, which seems to be called “Antiqua,” its text is set in Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch. I like to see this sign as one sort of big inside joke; a gift to all…
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My Awesome Staircase
The nicest part of the building I live in is the entry staircase. When we move out, I will miss this the most; it’s prettier than our whole apartment! I don’t know exactly when it was made, but I assume that it was put together sometime around 1900. The metalwork on the staircase itself (not…
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Carved Blackletters from Strasbourg
On a recent visit to Strasbourg, I made several photographs of carved blackletter inscriptions from the city’s cathedral. Strasbourg is the capital of Alsace, in the Alsace–Lorraine region of France. Almost directly across the Rhine from present-day Germany, Strasbourg and the surrounding territories were diputed for centuries, passing hands between the French and German states…
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TYPOSITION./Spatium im Klingspor-Museum
Am Samstag, den 28. Oktober, ab 15.00 Uhr stellen Peter Reichard und Tanja Huckenbeck die neue spatium Ausgabe »Hamburgefonts« im Offenbacher Klingspor-Museum vor. Nach der Begrüßung durch Dr. Stefan Soltek, Leiter des Museums, wird Prof. Ulrike Stoltz von der Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Braunschweig in das Thema einführen. Neben dem Magazin selbst sind…
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Letter Drawings From Lisbon
Some type designers make beautiful drawings. Some of these make their beautiful drawings everywhere they go. Restaurants who have paper tablecloths or paper napkins are likely to inspire them, especially if they brought their pens with them. A beautiful series of letter drawings from the 2006 ATypI Conference’s Gala Dinner is on display at http://fontme.net.…
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Free Font Manifesto Discussion
Rarely is there a time that I can manage to be articulate enough to carry on a sensible discussion when the topic of free fonts is brought up. Because of this, I am often quite relieved to read the contributions of others on this subject. In response to Ellen Lupton’s Free Font Manifesto, presented at…
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Bonsai Trees for Every Gorilla!
Each way on my daily commute to work, I walk through Frankfurt’s central train station. I see a lot of posters and billboards there, most of which tend to change every week. This one seems to have been staring me down for some time now, so I finally photographed it (click on the image to…
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New P22 Blackletters
P22 has recently brought two Blackletter fonts onto the market – or three, if you add P22 Declaration, which was released on the Fourth of July. All of these typefaces are of the handwriting variety. It is no secret that script typefaces are among the most popular fonts at the moment. Blackletter styles have been…
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