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Re: Marsa Serif — type design critique
As mentioned in another recent thread, the most important thing in learning to design type is learning how to look and see. This is one reason why I recommend, as a first exercise in designing type, …7 -
Re: Punchcutting tools: gravers
This may be of interest: a graver that Christian Paput used at the IN that I happen to own (he donated it to the ATypI 2003 fundraising auction). The mark indicates that the blade originated in Germa…1 -
Re: Tiro Typeworks is hiring a font maker
We've posted an update to the (still open) job posting: http://tiro.ca/jobs/170312_Font_Maker.pdf The job title has been changed, mostly in order to correspond more closely with that of similar jobs …2 -
Re: How do you handle the finances of a project?
I begin every project quizzing the customer about their needs, because generally they have only partially determined these. I try to build as complete a brief as possible, both in design and technica…8 -
Re: Graphology
Miles: What Mark, Thomas, and James are putting forward is not rationalism, it is empiricism. Empiricism proceeds from experience, so has room for emotion and even for mysticism. But experimental emp…9