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ALL THINGS TYPOGRAPHIC | MARCH 2011
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>> Missing Font Mysteries - Solved At Last!
>> TypeTalk: Script Typeface Dos & Don'ts
>> Making of a calligraphic album cover
>> Typographic Maps
>> Three Special Upcoming Events
>> Bring Gourmet Typography to your venue!
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Missing Font Mysteries - Solved At Last!
Have you ever experienced the frustration of opening an existing document and being confronted with a prompt for a missing font that you have not used in the document? Or, have you on occasion found unused fonts listed in the Fonts in Use / Usage directory of your document and wondered how they got there? Read on...
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TypeTalk: Script Typeface Dos & Don'ts
Q. Do you have suggestions for using script fonts?
A. There are many script typefaces to choose from, and those that are in the OpenType font format may have dozens, even hundreds, of alternate characters. Script typefaces can be expressive, eye-catching, and fun to use, but if you are not careful, it's easy to misuse them, leading to unattractive, unreadable type. Read on...
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Making of a calligraphic album cover
Don't miss this stunning video on the making of Frank Ortmann's lettering for an album cover for the record Max Goldt - L'Eglise des Crocodiles.
View video...
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 Typographic Maps
Axis Maps is pleased to announce the release of their mapping / art project Typographic Maps. Created as a labor of love, these unique maps accurately depict the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of the city using nothing but type. Only by manually weaving together thousands upon thousands of carefully placed words does the full picture of the city emerge. Every single piece of type was manually placed, a process that took hundreds of hours to complete for each map. Take a look at their blog for more on how these maps were made. Read on...
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Three Special Upcoming Events
Gourmet Typography Workshop
RGD Ontario | Toronto, Canada
March 28, 2011
Gourmet Typography returns to Toronto after selling out the November 2010 session! Every creative professional, including the most seasoned designer, can benefit from learning to communicate more effectively with type.
HOW Live DesignCast: Type on the Web
March 31, 2011
Live WEBCAST
Join me in part 2 of the HOW Learning Series of WEBINARS as I talk about what you need to know about designing with type on the Web.
Think Like A Type Designer
Thinking Creatively Conference, Union, NJ
Saturday, April 09, 2011, 10 am to 11:30 am
Join me for this fun, educational and enlightening hands-on session and learn to see type like you've never seen it before. Don't let the title fool you! This session is for designers, students, and educators of all levels of experience (as well as typeface junkies, of course!)
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 These are some of the groups that The Type Studio has worked with or appeared at:
Time Inc. | Essence Magazine
Hachette | Grand Central Publishing
MeadWestvaco
Whole Foods
Harlequin Books
Integrated Marketing
Fisher-Price
Hasbro
GO Transit | Toronto
Nationwide Insurance
London Life
Alliance Atlantis
AIGA Boston
AIGA Philadelphia
AIGA Atlanta
TDC (Type Directors Club)
RGD Ontario
HOW Design Conference
USDA Conference
TypeCon
View our complete client list here: Let us know if your group is interested. For more info, email or call me at 203.227.5929. Ilene
"I want to thank you for the great workshop last Friday. You dusted off and reinforced all of those typographic rules that I have, and have not, lived by in all my years as a graphic designer."
"Your down-to-earth approach to type made the session breezy and fun, and I couldn't help but visually re-spacing all the headlines I had the time to linger on during my bumper-to-bumper drive back to home. Thanks again for reigniting my spark for type!" |
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NOTE: In opposition to my constant typographic badgering, you might notice the lack of smart typographic conventions in this emailing, including smart quotes, en and em dashes. This is due to the limitations of the email marketing service currently being used.
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