Filed under: Design,Inspirations,Letterpress | Tags: Bethany Heck, End Grain, typography, wood type, woodtype
I love typography and woodtype, Bethany Heck and her End Grain blog, fulfills a void for me where I want to run out and spend my entire life savings on all the gorgeous wood type I can find, but realistically shouldn’t. It is a wonderful exploration of letterforms and letterpress. End Grain found a niche and I love to fall right in it everyday.
ps. I am thinking of changing up what I blog on Thursdays, obviously I love typography and letters, but I am also currently over inspired by the others out there doing handmade. Etsy has stolen my heart again lately and I am finding a lot of things that I would love to chat about … we’ll see where it goes … it may turn into oTHURsday around here for a while.
Filed under: BirdDog Press,Design,Inspirations | Tags: alphabet, letters, montessori, reading, typography
C is really taking notice of letters these days. Letters, sounds, words, reading, uppercase, lowercase, reading, writing – it is a LOT to take in now that I’m immersed in it. I am noticing with C that he really recognizes letters by their pure shape. He will mistake a U for a C – and really if you look at it sideways … it is! or W for M, L for 7, A for V, u for n, 2 for Z … I am fascinated by the way children learn, especially my own. Do all children see letters this way? How do you keep this ability to see things in their purest form and still function in society to read & write? Some days I would love to see the letters for what they really are. To not have too much meaning, sound, label or correct/incorrect attached to them, ahhhh, but then a lot of that is the beauty – typography, books, language …
Apartment Therapy’s Ohdeedoh blog recently posted this Montessori alphabet and received some really interesting comments on the subject of teaching the alphabet to children.
Filed under: BirdDog Press,Letterpress | Tags: Birdwood Press, broadside, lead type, poetry, Tom Parson, typography, wood type
My piece for a collaborative project that I contributed at the request of Gail of Birdwood Press honoring the poetry of my letterpress mentor, Tom Parson {a poet, kind soul & typophile} – Just for him, I hand-set 8 lines of tiny 9pt Bodoni, which first had to be sorted into a type case. In case you’re wondering, it took a LONG time. But letter by letter, I learned the layout of a traditional California Job Case. Hopefully, Tom will be proud. Choosing a poem titled Whipoorwill, because it conjures wonderful imagery and sounds from my southern upbringing, I combined a trio of color and a tri-fecta of photopolymer, lead type and {my favorite} wood type. I owe a lot to Tom and still have a ton to learn from him. He is truly an original and I appreciate him to the core.
a little game on a type thursday. what is your type? i am architype van doesburg. i’ll have to say the questions were kind of hard because i’m a little of each. this font reminds me of what you see on an eye chart. i like that it was created by an architect.
Filed under: BirdDog Press,Handmaiden Papeterie,Letterpress | Tags: wedding, typography, chipboard
Simple chipboard with a typographical design and pop of color with the orange envelope completes this ensemble for a down-home celebration on the family farm.
Filed under: Bozeman Collaborative,Design,Green | Tags: eco font, SPRANQ, typography
Use less ink. Download eco font!
The prints we make for our ‘daily use’ not only use paper, but also ink. According to SPRANQ creative communications (Utrecht, The Netherlands) your ink cartridges (or toner) could last longer.
SPRANQ has therefore developed a new font: the Ecofont.“After Dutch holey cheese, there now is a Dutch font with holes as well.”
Appealing ideas are often simple: how much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours (and coffee) this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink. Free to download, free to use.
