I contain multitudes
Mar. 30th, 2005 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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In my new piece for the AIGA Voice, Letraset as Aleph, I manage to sound like a 65 year-old graphic designer misty-eyed for the 1970s Letraset catalogue (and verging on some sort of Jewish mysticism with his vision of the dry transfer lettering system as a sort of "aleph", the magical point from which everything in the world can be seen simultaneously). Well, if I can pull off the 25 year-old Williamsburg brat voice in my pieces for Vice, why can't I be a 65 year-old designer for AIGA? I contain multitudes, you know.
Sorry I don't have anything more exciting for you today... I'm finishing off my Thames and Hudson photoblogging book, setting up a summer art show in New York, and preparing a piece for tomorrow's Design Observer. It's just as well I contain multitudes, because otherwise all this stuff just wouldn't get done. This multiple personality disorder thing is productive. Why don't we tell Nick that he's not a chicken? Because we need the eggs.
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Date: 2005-03-30 11:58 am (UTC)Also, my Cementimental (http://www.cementimental.com) logo was actually made from scans of a sheet of 'Block Up'!
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Date: 2005-03-30 12:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-30 02:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-30 03:15 pm (UTC)When I was a kid, letraset was leaving the professional sphere and dropping rapidly in price. I remember one time in an electronics surplus store when I was about 15, finding a huge stockpile of Letraset in all kinds of groovy fonts for $1/sheet. My school projects and book reports had the best typography ever. Motter Tektura (http://www.paratype.com/pstore/fonts/Motter-Tektura.htm) was the inspiration for an entire city design in Urban Geo that won an award in grade 11. :)
When I went into television I started as a Chyron operator, designing the credits and name titles for public-access cable TV shows on an aging 1981-era character generator that had 8 fonts and 256 colors, but I managed to hack it to make gradient-filled letters.
More recently, in 2002 I started doing letterpress, going way back to the roots of typography, arranging letterforms in trays and pressing them on a Vandercook roller press on thick, handmade paper. And truly learning what a genius Jan Tschischold really was.
Alphabets have always embodied potential and mystery to me.
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Date: 2005-03-30 04:29 pm (UTC)I have something exciting for you today
Date: 2005-03-30 06:48 pm (UTC)http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/
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Date: 2005-03-30 08:50 pm (UTC)You don't have to be 65 to appreciate Letraset catalogs.
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Date: 2005-03-30 10:14 pm (UTC)when, where, how????????????????????????????
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Date: 2005-03-30 11:46 pm (UTC)Newly wed Zizek
Date: 2005-03-31 12:27 am (UTC)It makes me happy and terrified in same time.
Taku
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