Grandia in fine print.

This post marks the first anniversary of my blog and the end of my year at the University of Reading, where I furthered my education in typeface design via their Masters degree program. It has been a good year and I learned much more than I could have anticipated. To view the results of my work and my classmates’, you can visit typefacedesign.org and view PDF specimens of each typeface, including a group specimen that we had printed up. If 1) you are interested in a copy, and 2) I know who you are, I just might see that you get a copy if you ask very nicely.
Have a look at Grandia and Gandhara and please leave any comments you have on the typefaces here. Thanks for having a look!

Gandhara in Sanskrit text.

Grandia/Gandhara language “cloud”

a is for Albertus, originally uploaded by pauldhunt.

… and not a drop of ink! This week in the department, the finishing touches were being painted on the walls at the building that houses the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication. The pièces de résistance came in the form of ginormous brightly painted letters, yum! Perhaps they chose this week to give us struggling MA students a perk as we are in the last hours of writing and finishing our dissertation work. In any case, the cheery new department building will be all ready to welcome a new crop of budding designers the first of next month. I wish I could do it all over again.

From sketches to digital proofs and transformations. Gerard commented that he felt this was quite a resilient design.

The original version (not quite narrow enough for our experiment).

Some “quick and dirty” transformations.

I had joked that I would flesh these out a bit over the weekend and have them to MyFonts by Monday, but more likely these will never see the light of day.