Jim Rimmer of New Westminster, B.C. is one of the greatest typographic treasures that Canada has to offer. For nearly 60 years he has been working in the field of Graphic Design in newspaper, advertising, and layout, as a pressman, compositor, typesetter, designer, lithographer, illustrator, bookbinder and teacher. However, it is his impressive contribution to [...]
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The Canadian Revival of a Great American Typeface
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Canada truly is a cultural mosaic, accepting and actively encouraging the expressions of a multitude of nations. At the beginning of March Canada Type, who has been responsible for reviving many great international typefaces, added another historically important face to their roster with the release of the first digital version of Ronaldson Old Style. Ronaldson [...]
Who would play you in a movie?
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Have you ever wondered who would play you in a movie? It’s one of those conversations that pops up from time to time when you’re out with friends and you start talking about books you’ve just read or films you’ve just seen. Well, a recently posted piece at Design Observer has been growing steadily over [...]
Hoy there little Spiggie!
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Norwegian Designer Torleiv Sverdrup has added his name to the ranks of the International House of Fonts (IHoF), a division of the P22 Type Foundry in Buffalo, with the release of his first two typefaces, Hoy and Spiggie, named after places in the Orkney Islands. Hoy has a very uncial feel, not dissimilar to Colmcille, [...]
Get Rid of Stereotypes
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Not all of the people in this industry are fixated on type and design 24/7, some of them have serious hobbies and alter-egos. Karl Thomson, who is our first Speaker in the upcoming Calendar, is somebody who wears two hats extremely well. Not only is he an extremely talented designer, but he is also a [...]
It’s a Boomerang Man! It says Return to Sender!
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Brand New has just posted a brief on the re-branding of the Capital One Logo. Why any financial company would want to use a big red boomerang to enhance their brand is beyond me. What is the message? It’s all coming back at you? Return to Sender? It worked for Nike, why not us? While [...]
The Pelicans Have Landed
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Things magazine has just posted an amazing chronological gallery of historical Pelican books covers, called The Pelican Project. Pelican was a branch of Penguin Books added in 1937 to “cover serious contemporary issues” such as History, Sociology, Economics and Politics.
Michael Bierut: 79 short essays on design
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Michael Bierut, a partner at Pentagram and a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art published a book last May called Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design from Princeton Architectural Press. Unlike your standard book of Essays, each one of these is set in a different typeface: some picked at random, some [...]
