Type design critique, 1909

Stephen Coles
Stephen Coles Posts: 1,029
edited October 2014 in Type History
London bookshop Collinge & Clark has an archive of Stephenson Blake drawings and correspondence. I got a kick out of reading E.B. Hanson’s typewritten reactions to SB’s suggestions. Things moved slower back then.

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  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,460
    Socratic method?
  • Craig Eliason
    Craig Eliason Posts: 1,476
    I loved seeing this! Especially after working this afternoon to revise a type design based on feedback sent to me by a fellow designer in a list rather similar to this. A century later things aren't all that different (though our email exchanges never ended with "I remain, yours obediently")!
  • Chris Lozos
    Chris Lozos Posts: 1,460
    OBEY!
  • Vasil Stanev
    Vasil Stanev Posts: 785
    Hey, I finish letters with "Yours truly"!  :#

  • Theunis de Jong
    Theunis de Jong Posts: 112
    What strikes me is that in between the formal introduction and signing off, the points in between would not look out of place in any of the Critiques in here. Some things haven't changed, regardless of the topic (hand-drawn sketches vs. bézier curves) or medium (ink vs. electrons).

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