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Allan Haley: “Not everyone is equally impressed by Michael Bierut’s typographic expertise. He likes to tell the story of explaining to his daughter how he intended to handle a complicated new design project. After his detailed description, she quipped, ‘Oh, you mean you’re going to handle it like the Saks logo? Just cut things up and shuffle them around?’”
From the site: “Juho Sado is an 89-year-old master calligrapher. For most of his life, he’s honed his technique, as muscles and tendons in his body make the slightest of micro adjustments to turn words into art. You could copy his work with a scanner, but you couldn’t ever just re-create it at will. Or could you?”
From the site: “Japanese researchers have found way to preserve the centuries old tradition of calligraphy. They have created a robot that memorize artist’s brush strokes and recreates art and calligraphy.”
From the site: “[An] animated short starring a likeable monster named Harold. In this melancholy love story, Harold falls for a new coworker, who unfortunately falls harder for someone else. Voiced by Canadian legend Gordon Pinsent and animated by Hector Herrera — Typesetter Blues is written in the nonsense poetry tradition of Edward Lear and Shel Silverstein.”
San Francisco’s The Bold Italic pays a quick visit to the studio of Jessica Hische and Erik Marinovich.
Another week, another trend. The inimitable David Sudweeks takes a gander at hand painted typography for the FontShop blog.
From the press release: “Hatch Show Print, the iconic letterpress print shop owned and operated by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, will move from its current location at 316 Broadway into a new, custom-designed space within the expanded museum, museum officials announced today. The move will take place in late 2013.”
A rounded sans in the arts and crafts vein. Consisting of six weights, three widths, plus italics — it’s a natural extension to Jeremy Dooley’s already volunimous Ashemore superfamily series.
