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Re: My book is out!
Very well done—congratulations! Some remarkable coincidences here: My late friend Mordecai Bauman, the singer closely associated with Marc Blitzstein, and his wife, Irma, were intimately involved wit…1 -
Re: The future of type
Chris beat me to some of this, but . . . Though I hate to admit it, I'm old enough to remember something about the production of phototype. Yes, there was drawing, but it was drawing with a lot of as…1 -
Re: Type design hot takes
Just to inject a bit of accuracy here: I, too, love Joseph Blumenthal’s Art of the Printed Book, which had a great influence on me as I was entering this field in the mid-1970s. The plates were print…6 -
Re: Type design hot takes
It’s certainly unpopular with me! Very well made photographic reproductions are the best method for the reproduction of print typography. Two of the samples here, the 17th-century Dutch book and the …1 -
Re: A new character?
I had always associated this kind of unnecessary accenting with the byways of U.S. commerce. There was a Chrysler car in the 1970s called the “Volaré,” as if the name needed an acute accent to get th…2
