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Re: Does Surrealism have a Typographic Language?
Worth noting that such “automatic drawing” was a key part of Surrealism from the jump—see André Masson, Jean Arp, Joan Miró. IMO capricious letterform variety—pretty much an inherent part of commerci…2 -
Re: How do you teach type design?
I teach type design at the BA level, and to a wide variety of students. Probably fewer than half are Digital Media Arts majors. Essentially none have previous type design experience (very few have Be…4 -
Re: The Place of the Low-waist 'a' in Modern Latin-Based Fonts
I associate this feature with Garamond types, and just like you found with Dair, some revivalists follow suit with the low bowl (e.g. Stempel Garamond, Adobe Garamond) while others even out the count…2 -
Re: Does Surrealism have a Typographic Language?
My more recent release Fillmore takes inspiration from (among other sources) the biomorphic abstract art of Surrealists like Jean Arp and Joan Miró. If I recall correctly, the typography of Surrealis…5 -
Book on typographic hand-mold from Stan Nelson forthcoming
Typedrawers folks may be interested in this book that is coming: From: https://metaltype.co.uk/wpress/advert/new-monograph-on-the-typefounders-hand-mould/4
