I may be pointing out the obvious here but I think ideally your goal should be to find originals, rather than asking strangers for scans and hoping they’re good enough. I don’t know where you’re loc… (View Post)
For me Designing Type seemed very helpful for about a month when I first started learning to draw type, haven’t opened it since. It’s in a way a condensed substitute/supplement for just looking at a … (View Post)
If we’re talking about relative newcomers, stressing the need for originality might not be the most helpful or pressing thing. Sure there’s an element of vision, of a fresh take etc, and concepts sho… (View Post)
A bit tangential to this but fascinating in its own way, a curious look from outside the field proper: Douglas Hofstadter’s Letter Spirit project https://web.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/hofstadte… (View Post)
I can’t remember the exact title of that thread, haven’t been able to dig anything up :(. What I did find locally was this image I made for that thread (December 5, 2009, in case that helps for findi… (View Post)