Published on February 8, 2010
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Maple Valentype Blocks from House Industries
I must apologize to all (2) of my blog readers for neglecting making type gift suggestions when the winter holidays came around. To atone for my inattention, let me make suggestions of a select few items that will be sure to charm your sweetheart or that you can give yourself as a special treat.
On the top of the list (as always) is the latest holiday offering from House Industries. Pictured above, you can see the lovely, screen-printed Valentype blocks. If you think you might want one or more of these, you better act quickly as they are only available until the 14th of this month. Be sure to get them while you can! Continue reading ‘Sweet Type Gifts for Valentine’s Day’
Published on July 14, 2009
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we love typography
I have impeccable tastes. It’s true. This was confirmed to me when I was invited to be a contributor to the highly-exclusive type and lettering archiving website, welovetypography.com. Actually, I was quite humbled and honored to be included as a part of this project. If I had invites to share with you, I would, but unfortunately the scope has been kept intentionally small. I hope you’re not too jealous of me. One nice little feature is that I can add tags to the photos I’ve shared and often I’m sharing images of things I’d like to be able to buy. If you type ‘merch’ in the search field, you can find some purchasable items, since I seem to be posting shopping suggestions less frequently these days.
And now I have to clear the air on a recent occurrence that has happened in connection with me being a contributor to the welovetypography website. It appears that several blogs have credited me for the photography of one of the images that I submitted. The fact of the matter is that I am not an accomplished photographer. I wish it were so. The photo that has been the cause of this confusion was actually taken by one Marieke Wijntjes, more information on this particular image can be found here.
Continue reading ‘Typographic tastemaker’
Structurosa by Paul D. Hunt
I got a complaint about my blog from one of my friends when I was home in Arizona last. She told me that it was ‘boring’. I assumed that the reason was because that I don’t post enough personal information on this blog. I guess that I’m of the opinion that my Facebook page is more of my personal platform for my own private and political pabulum. Also, I’ve been accused for not feeding my blog enough. So this post is meant to remedy both of these problems.
Firstly, a bit of old news: I moved from the UK back to the US in December and landed in San Jose, California in January of this year to begin working for Adobe on their typeface development team. I wrote a brief life history to explain how I got to that point for those of you that might be interested.
And of more immediate vintage, I just completed an interview for FontShop’s FontFeed, detailing my involvement with FontStruct. This might prove interesting to you if you were able to read through my Adobe biography above without falling asleep.
Lastly, I wanted to take this opportunity to shamelessly mention that I have recently tried to monetize this blog by adding a link to my Amazon A-store, which includes some handpicked items on subject of type and typography. If you haven’t clicked on the link in this paragraph, you can always find the store through the widget showcasing books (many on sale!) on the top, right of this page. If you like any of my recommendations, then buy something!
More news soon, I promise!
Mens Ampersand T from House Industries
This will likely be the last round of gift ideas I pass on for the year, but I just had to pass along that House Industries now has Ampersand Tees back in stock! I already bought myself two, so no need to buy one for me, but make sure that you get these for your loved ones before they sell out again. House has lots of other interesting merchandise, so be sure to check out their selection with everything from cutting boards to handbags.
If you liked the Fleet Street print that I blogged about a few weeks back, but found that none of the options really fit your budget, you’re in luck there too. The artist is publishing an open edition of tiny prints for £20.00 a pop.
Lastly, I must advocate the purchase of any products you can get your hands on by the extremely talented artist, illustrator and letterer Ray Fenwick. He has a load of products you can purchase on his site. It seems that I missed the boat for finding this bedding with my favorite ‘Quiet, Please’ print, but if someone tracks them down, please let me know! Tiny Showcase also has a range of Fenwick merch, including the Hall of Best Knowledge book, bookplates, and more.
I hope that’s got you covered for gift ideas for all your designer friends and friendesses. Happy shopping!
P.S. How could I forget?! Another essential item for every font lover is P22 Playing Cards for $10 per set, or free with any purchase over $100.
Published on December 1, 2008
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Helvetica Rotalic by Filip Tydén
I brought up the word ‘rotalic’ in a conversation with my old boss, Richard Kegler, when we got together for his birthday and I was surprised to find that this term is not yet common parlance, so here’s a new (and really useful) typographic term for all of you to incorporate into your everyday vocabulary. I myself first learned of this useful term from the seminal typography blog i love typography.
Apparently, the following article was originally found on Wikipedia, but it has since been scrapped, and I had to rescue it from Wikibin. I an effort to preserve and promote such knowledge, I’m reposting the thing here:
Continue reading ‘The Ever-useful Rotalic‘
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