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Re: Reviving Type
The success of, and the opinion about, Gerard Unger’s types and idiom deserve a dedicated topic on TypeDrawers, I reckon. I consider Gerard’s view on revivals in the context of Reviving Types only re…1 -
Re: Reviving Type
As mentioned, Gerard was not very fond of revivals. However, he intensively researched historical material for a couple of his typefaces, including, for example, DTL Paradox. In the introduction of t…1 -
Re: Reviving Type
Hi Hrant, it is a fact that Gerard was not really a fan of revivals, as was, for example, Van Krimpen. However, even if one is for this reason not interested in Céline’s and Nóra’s final interpretatio…3 -
Re: Reviving Type
Hi Claudio, yes, Céline and Nóra were KABK LetterStudio students of mine, who did for a couple of semesters research in the context of the ‘Revival of a historic Renaissance typeface’ module. Hi Scot…1 -
Re: Glyph Collector
For their Renaissance type revivals (and the related investigation of archetypal patterning and systematization), my KABK LetterStudio students select and photograph source models at the National Lib…3
