Thursday March 27th, we are pleased to present Andrew and Matt McCracken of Doublenaut. Doublenaut is a Toronto Design House with a foundation in Music Graphics. Working with Bands and Promoters, the McCracken brothers have carved a comfortable niche doing an incredible array of show posters, cd packaging and websites. (Continued)
Jim Rimmer and the Pie Tree
Saturday, March 15, 2008
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 type design that I’m writing about today.
The Pie Tree Press, his imprint these many years, is named after the tree in his yard that the neighbour’s kids would come and pick apples from for their pies. The Press occupies part of his basement, a hand built addition to the back of his house and a small bindery/studio opposite the entrance to the press room. At the entrance is an alphabet of Jim’s Duensing Titling face carved by him into a printer’s stone. Inside are his presses, casters, cases of type, a machine shop for building and repairing equipment (which he does himself), and a collection of typographic objects. His main printing press is a 14 x 22 Colts Armory Platen that he literally rebuilt by hand with many homemade parts.
1) The Entrance to the Pie Tree Press; 2) Duensing Titling, carved by Jim (Continued)
Taming the Written Form
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Michael Clark is a renowned Calligrapher and winner of 2 TDC Awards. He is a teacher, lecturer and frequent panelist for anything Calligraphic. He is also a Tamer of Wild Words.
He will be speaking at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday March 11th at the Arts & Letters Club.
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 was originally designed in metal by Alexander Kay for the MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan foundry of Philadelphia in 1884 and was one of the first great American faces and a very interesting story.
Get Some Personality: Branding with Custom Type
Friday, February 29, 2008
Join us on Thursday, March 6th, 7:00 p.m. at the Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm St. to hear Peter Zak & Barry Lavender -Get Some Personality: Branding with Custom Type
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Karl Thomson of Compass360
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Join us Tues. February 26th, 7:00 p.m. at the Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm St. to hear Karl Thomson of Compass360
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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 the past couple of days. Fifteen Minutes of Fame compares photos of famous designers and the actor(s) would likely be the best fit to play them in a film.
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, though not quite as Art Deco in style. Spiggie is a much more Art Deco style Sans Serif with a Peignot feeling, though it has wider characters and has a clear lowercase with the exception of the cap style “e”. Both would make clean display faces and are a fine addition to the P22 Library.
