AGDA Talk

I saw Tobias Frere-Jones talk at the Maritime museum tonight. wow. Plus a sweet specimen book. wow. ... fuck yeah.

Be you tiful

Slowed on posting of late. Taking a break from the typeface for awhile to regain my objectivity about it. Still sketching though, scans to come. Until then, my entry for National Youth Week 09.

B

Hola!

Gday everyone. I have some pleasing progress. 9 Characters left (K,k,W,w,X,x,Y,Z,z) until my first roman weight is drafted. Numbers and punctuation too, of course.

More steps forward

Today I got a big chunk of the upper case done. About 15 letters still remain to get the first draft of the regular weight cut. Trying to get the hang of using a broadnib too.

Rollin'

Today I spent most of the day recreating grids from The Typographic Grid by Bosshard, published by Niggli, a documentation of some really fantastic grid systems and how they were made, with specific details about the typesetting. Learned heaps, especially about subdivision. Highly recommend it if you can get your hands on a copy.

Lowercase c,y and e have been drafted. That leaves 4 lowercase still to do. This week I hope to get through a substantial chunk of drafting the uppercase. Another sketch page on the side too.

Uppercase rocks up

Today's changes and additions. Thanks to Thierry who helped with the following.

H and O added (capheight and ascenders tweaked)
r width reduced
dot height and width changed
top of t changed
f arc reduced (just lookin at the jpg now, the terminal needs to be darker)
g bowl altered
s 'leaning to the right' fixed (hopefully)

Lookin forward to getting more done over the weekend.

Welcome some new characters to the family

Today's progress.

44 letters to go

G'day, today I began digitising some sketches from my book and I'm really enjoying it so far. Nothing too big/detailed yet, as I'm definitely still deciding on things. I'm trying not to get caught up too much in minor decisions at the moment and just get momentum. Luckily I now know a few short cuts from my last experience. Still drawing in illustrator not fontlab though, gotta shake that habbit. At least this time I'm drawing at the right scale.



On another misc note, check out Kutiman's music. What a talented guy.

Gettin' there.

First, apologies for not updating, I left my sketchbook at work. So this (the first pic) is the first sight, after a moleskine and a bit, of something I could foresee turning into something worth spending time on (digitally). I hope I can turn it into something worthwhile. The rest of the stuff is just progress bits and pieces.

More to come.

D&AD to Australia

Just a quick poster idea, a twist on the Design and Art Directors Club logo that eloquently expresses how I and many other designers feel about it. If you don't get it, here's the original

Go Font Urself

The lovely GO had a few kind words to say over at her blog about the exhibition last night. I had a great time checking everyone's work out, catching up with friends I haven't seen in ages, meeting new people and drinkin' free booze. Thanks for everyone who helped organised it.

It was a great chance to start my experiment, Good Type. It's easy to perceive design as self serving, egotistical even. Design wank. Type nerd. Who cares if it's Arial or Helvetica if I can still read it? Sadly, it's often true.I accept this but it's a point I'm unwilling to concentrate on. I don't have time to write a thesis on the effectiveness of design. It was, however, the spawning moment for the experiment and anyway, you can talk or you can do.

I want see what can be done with type, to achieve good things. So, to start it off, the Victorian Bushfire Appeal will be receiving all profits from the sale of A-Z. Unfortunately I don't know the figure, as the paintings were silently auctioned but I do know it was bid on.

If you're a typographer, type designer or letter lover, this is my challenge to you. Set some Good Type! For those who couldn't make it along, my entry (photo and typography by G.O):

Marblin'

Obviously inspired by Si, thought I'd have a play, nothing I'm gonna pursue though.

Ahoyhoy

Things are good. Fell off my bike yesterday in the wet so I'm a bit sore.

OH NO!

I go you go we go

Getting busy, hopefully I don't slow down. Today at the cafe.