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Linotype: The Film – Final Push
Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary centred around the Linotype typecasting machine. We are excited to announce a second Kickstarter project to help us cover post-production expenses. We...
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Stop Motion Video Introduces The Vocabulary Of Typography
When looking at the Letterpress video which I wrote about last month, I stumbled on another lovely instructional short on letterpress on Vimeo. Type High is an introduction to the principles of...
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Linotype: The Film – A Special Opportunity
We would like to share about a unique opportunity that has been presented to us. We have been given seven 16mm educational films from the Mergenthaler Linotype Company from the 1950s and ’60s. They are...
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Expert Class Type Design Graduation And Exhibition
Saturday, September 10, I attended the graduation ceremony of the Expert class Type design (EcTd) at the Plantin Institute for Typography which is being lectured by Frank E. Blokland. The course is...
View ArticleLetters Have The Floor
Long before the invention of printing, hand painted letter boards were widespread as teaching material in schools. ABC tablets made of wood were already mentioned in an English manuscript as early as...
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Learn How To Kern Like A Pro With KernType
There really should be more games like this. This weekend a tweet by designer, author, teacher, and wayfinding and typography expert Ralf Hermann led me to KernType. The website – brilliant in its...
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Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals Explores The Space Between The...
I have said this numerous times over the past few years – now is a great time to be into typography. Typographic production is at an all-time high, digital font technology allows for unequalled...
View ArticleStudent Film Looks At Typography From Paper To Screen
With the current interest in web fonts the title may be misleading, because this time we are talking about type from paper to the movie screen. Set to the music of Claude Debussy and Georges Delerue,...
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