Martijn Rijven over at BOLT Graphics in Amsterdam is another one of our PLINC beta testers. He recently featured Hasler Circus —for the “Jarvis Cocker” header— on a recent poster project. Dank je wel!
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Posted by Ken Barber on July 15, 2009
If you’re in the autonomous province of Valencia, Spain this weekend, swing by Alicante for some type talk and a lettering workshop.
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Posted by Ken Barber on May 4, 2009
Plenty of typobabble, fontspeak and letterese in this interview to satisfy even the most ardent type geeks among our esteemed readership.
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Posted by Ken Barber on April 30, 2009
Kaisa Leka, half of the Finnish contingent of the House Factory Team, was recently pictured, along with fellow rider Christoffer Leka, in an issue of MeidänSuomi sporting a prototype House jersey. The pair have the thankless task of rigorously testing House gear, in often unforgiving conditions, during their frequent trans-European tours. Get your House Factory Team gear here.
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Posted by Ken Barber on April 12, 2009
I had originally posted this image thinking that it was from a Photo-Lettering competitor. However, I came across the original the other day and noticed that it is indeed from a specimen book published by Typographic Service, a division of Electrographic Corporation (the parent company who owned PLINC). In fact, it was Amos Bethke and C.E. Ruckstuhl of Typographic Service who were instrumental in Electrographic opening the company’s new subsidiary, aptly called Photo-Lettering, Inc. While the TS monogram remains reminiscent of Benguiat’s work, you can take a gander at some certified Ed goodness here.
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Posted by Ken Barber on April 6, 2009
Thanks to Florian Hardwig for this colorful specimen of Kurrentschrift from a 1911 Swiss primer.
Makes reading Fraktur seem easy.
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Posted by Ken Barber on March 31, 2009
Yet another one from the library.
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Posted by Ken Barber on March 27, 2009
I suppose at some point all those film-lettering joints from back in the day just started running out of names.
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Posted by Ken Barber on March 26, 2009
This weekend, I’ll be giving a lecture and conducting a workshop at CSU as part of the university’s Arts Week. Swing by and learn about the stylistic connection between late nineteenth century “rustic” engraving and the lettering of contemporary LA black metal band logos.
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Posted by Ken Barber on March 16, 2009
