Letters in a changing world DAVID QUAY The Art Workers’ Guild, London Wednesday 15 October 2014 Letters and the way they are viewed have changed over the past 50 years. David Quay’s approach to letters has also changed from pencil to computer, from calligraphy to type design. He will show how he started at drawing letters when he was 10 and the challenge that type designers faces today in a commercial world. After a spell of designing typefaces for ITC, he set up The Foundry with Freda Sack … [Read more...]
Emil Rudolf Weiss – The Typography of an Artist
Jerry Cinamon and Graham Moss Emil Rudolf Weiss: Master of Letters – a book and its making– by the author and publisher. There is something magical about the collaboration of master publisher / private press owner Graham Moss and the designer / book historian Gerald Cinamon. Added to this they have presented the Fine Book Press world with a monograph on an important figure in German Book Arts: ER Weiss: The typography of an artist by Gerald Cinamon. Graham Moss owns Incline Press, a private … [Read more...]
26 Explosions: Why Brody is not always nice to the alphabet
Well?Why?I'm sure Brody Neuenschwander will reveal all at his talk at Letter Exchange this Wednesday 16th October at The Artworker's Guild in London at 6.30pm Brody Neuenschwander will show recent work in many media and talk about how he films the pen in motion. This is what I think is true: While studying his master in art history at the Courtauld Institute Brody decided to enrol at Roehampton at the same time. He began a love affair with calligraphy - but judging by his title, this is an … [Read more...]
Retro lettering
I am working on the poetry collaboration between lettering artists and poets. Laura is "my poet" and we drew the word "Lino". Laura has written a poem looking back at her Grandmother's lino floor and setting the poem in the mid-fifties and then moving to the present time. It was shortly after this "magical time" that I could have been sitting at Granny's table, aged 14, laboriously copying out lettering from my Speedball catalogue. With this in mind and a cue from one of my favourite … [Read more...]
Half-tone Roses – Lino poem
Yesterday I showed my retro rose design and I thought you may be interested in some behind-the-scene details. Here is the fabric design I used for my rose and the final result as it will look once it has been screened in carmine. First I scanned the rose on the left in and isolated three areas of pink in separate files - dark, medium and light. Each of those areas were then converted to grey scale and of course there were 3 different shades of grey. I then went to Filter/ pixellate/ half-tone … [Read more...]
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