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Trajan & Hebrew & Arabic, oh my!

Last year I wrote the texts for four new digital specimen books for extensions to Adobe Originals typefaces, and just last week Adobe posted those specimens online. All of them are additions to...

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The Briem Report

Last year, after a highly entertaining turn as the keynote speaker at the ATypI conference in Reykjavík in 2011, designer and lettering artist Gunnlaugur SE Briem asked around 100 practitioners of...

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Back on the wall

It’s gratifying to see, from a story on the TDC’s website, that the three-dimensional typographic mural that Lou Dorfsman constructed in 1966 for the cafeteria at CBS headquarters in New York City has...

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TypeCon2014 | Washington DC

This year’s TypeCon, which went by the name “Capitolized” but really seemed to revel in being “Redacted,” was very enjoyable. It was a great reunion of colleagues and old friends, and a fine way to...

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Sprinting into the future

My e-book essay “What is needed” has just been republished on the website of “Sprint Beyond the Book,” a project of Arizona State University’s remarkable Center for Science and the Imagination. In May,...

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Translated serifs

My little book Hanging by a serif caught the eye of Bertram Schmidt-Friderichs, co-owner of Hermann Schmidt Verlag in Mainz, Germany, a fine small publishing company that specializes in books about...

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Traveling & listening & talking: Typo Day

“I can’t believe this is your first time,” said the young Indian woman with whom I was sharing the auto-rickshaw. “It is, though,” I replied, calmly clutching a handhold as the three-wheeled vehicle...

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The Letterform Archive

I recently had my first chance to visit the remarkable Letterform Archive in San Francisco. This is the fruit of thirty-five years of collecting by Rob Saunders, all of it related to type and lettering...

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Eyemag

I just got the latest issue of Dennis Letbetter’s Eyemag, his more or less quarterly series of magazine-size books that showcase different aspects of his long and notable career as a photographer. (I’m...

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More writing

I have just added a couple of complete essays to the rather minimalist “Writing” page on this site, and links to several others. That page has so far consisted of short, and I hope intriguing, excerpts...

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Farewell to Jack the printer

“The splendid dawns — how many more of them will the gods toss into your basket of days?” – Horace, Carminum Liber IV, trans. Michael Taylor Jack Stauffacher died on Nov. 16, a month shy of his 97th...

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Facing the world, typographically

On Dec. 1 & 2, Stanford University hosted “Face/Interface,” a small conference on “Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction Beyond the Western World.” The conference was held in conjunction with...

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Sam Hamill

Sam Hamill would have turned 75 on May 9. He had planned to celebrate his birthday with a publication party for his final book, After Morning Rain, on May 15, but in the end he realized that his health...

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Reading Le Guin

A few months back, I got the second two-volume set of Ursula K. Le Guin’s work in the Library of America, “The Hainish Novels and Stories.” (She is one of the very few writers to have their work...

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TypeCon 2018 Portland

At the beginning of August, I was in Portland, Oregon, for the 20th anniversary of TypeCon (which was also TypeCon XX, thanks to their having skipped 1999, the second year). As one of the few who...

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Adieu, W.S. Merwin

The wonderful poet W.S. Merwin died two weeks ago. I had the pleasure of meeting him once and being in his presence twice, and I had the honor of designing one of his books (Flower & Hand: poems...

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In search of ATypI

This is the text of the talk I gave yesterday at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo, about the project I’ve been working on for the past year: a history of ATypI. A draft of the first part of the history is now...

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Designing the Poets’ flexible logo

When Tree Swenson asked me to create a new visual identity for the Academy of American Poets, the brief included creating a new logo. Tree was then Executive Director of the Academy, which was (and...

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Farewell to Jack the printer

“The splendid dawns — how many more of them will the gods toss into your basket of days?” – Horace, Carminum Liber IV, trans. Michael Taylor Jack Stauffacher died on Nov. 16, a month shy of his 97th...

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Facing the world, typographically

On Dec. 1 & 2, Stanford University hosted “Face/Interface,” a small conference on “Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction Beyond the Western World.” The conference was held in conjunction with...

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