Category: TypeOff
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First Morris Sans application found
Linotype released my Morris Sans typeface about a year ago, but until a the day before yesterday, I hadn’t seen the fonts in use anywhere. Since I spend most of my time walking through the streets looking at letters anyway, I always held out a little beacon of hope that I might one day run…
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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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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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Surviving my abbreviated Unger week
Following five days in Virginia, I arrived back in England on Tuesday afternoon. Having spent the morning en route in the Netherlands’ beautiful airport, I was ready for some more Dutch things. I made it to the Typography department in time for Gerard Unger’s 4pm lecture on the Didots and Wafflard. Unfortunately, I had missed…
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More sketches from Reading
Since Thursday night, I’ve been in the US for my sister’s wedding, and I should have been sketching for my course at Reading. Instead, I’ve been spending time with my family, and my new MacBook Pro. Where have my priorities gone? After feeling guilty, I decided to take more photographs of some of my earlier…
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UoR Unger workshop #1
I still haven’t been in Reading for very long. On Monday night, I’ll have been here for three weeks. On the other hand, my time here already feels like it has gone on for about half of forever. Maybe that is because each day, as well as each weekend, tends to be remarkably similar. Some…
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Morris Sans shirt at TypeCon
I wasn’t at TypeCon in Seattle this year, but at least my typeface was. Above is this year’s Linotype shirt for the conference, which I did not have a hand in making. The text “city of TYPE,” as well as some of the skyline elements, is set in Morris Sans. Hopefully, a few prominent Seattle…
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Very condensed serif sketch
Back in May, a Romanian designer posted a Type ID query on Typophile for a series of beautiful condensed and serifed letterforms from the 1950s. The letterforms seem to have been hand-drawn, and I fell in love with them immediately. The samples provided were just all caps, so I fleshed out digital outlines for a…
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Come to my Workshop!
Typedesign mit Durchblick Bei der 9. Tage der Typografie: Noblesse Oblique: 7.–10. Juni 2007 Schablonenschriften sind funktionale Schriften; und wir wissen, dass die Formen einer Schrift ihrer Funktion folgen sollten. Aber inwiefern stimmt diese Aussage? Wie zeichnet man am besten eine Form, um die Interpretation der Funktion zur Geltung zu bringen, und Buchstaben zu schaffen,…
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New Page for Blackletter Resources
Recently, I’ve received several requests from visitors asking for good resources on- and offline regarding learning more about blackletter type. After typing out the same bits of information multiple times, I decided to build a static page here on TypeOff. that I could just link to in the future. So, if you are looking for…
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Old Degree Project Abstract
My last semster at RISD was during the fall of 2001, during which time I was also an exchange student at the FH-Wiesbaden in Germany. I completed my degree project while abroad. It aimed to compare narratives implicit within Jewish gravestones in Newport, Rhode Island and those in Worms, Germany. Why Jewish gravestones in Newport…
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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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Lettering “On Lettering” Pt. 2
While I was a student at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, I was involved in an illustration course interpreting letters and the book arts for an exhibition on at the Klingspor Museum. Instead of creating a series of illustrations or an ornamented alphabet, I set out on an eight-week meditative exercise. I did not…
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Vacation Time
Now that I’ve gotten the website back up and running, I’m heading to the US for two weeks. Hopefully, I’ll get some posts in while I’m out of town. Be sure to subscribe to TypeOff.’s RSS-Feed to stay updated!
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