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Charlie Chambers has sent me these amazing images. To put them into context, he say, "I am currently making a short film about Maritime Pilots and so have been around lots of big ships. I have become interested by all the painted markings on the side of the boats..."
Brilliant. Thanks Charlie!
If you'd like to contribute, please send stuff here.
Aegir (Ministry of Type) was at the Seeking Inspiration conferences last week (at the St Bride Foundation) and shot this. Text taken from the short lived, might be revived one day, Uncommon Knowledge mini series. Isn't that great?
But what's on Speikermann's mind I wonder.
A surprise type specimen in the post is a lovely thing isn't it? This one's for Xavier Dupré's new additions to his 2004 designed Vista family. Lovely.
Day 5: And we decided to try a little free ranging. They didn't fly away.
Editor John L Walters and art director Simon Esterson discuss their acquisition of Eye magazine and their future plans for this important publication.
Graphic Design on the Radio
Presented by (soon to be fellow chicken enthusiast) Adrian Shaughnessy
Fridays 4.00-5.00pm GMT
Resonance 104.4 FM
www.resonancefm.com
And check out the schedule.
The work of the devil it may be but I still have to say a special thank you to those lovely people at Pentagram. Not only for that copy of the Black Book but now also for a copy of Harry Pearce's excellent and diabolical holiday book.
I've tried cracking that last matrix there but all I can get from it is an order for Kung Po style pork and a taxi for Zapf; that can't be right...
An uncharacteristic, niche-interest and personal entry perhaps but it's a sufficiently significant development in our home life to report that we now have a trifold of chickens. That "secret design project" I've alluded to recently being the two-week's-to-build bespoke chicken coop; I like to think, designed in the Shaker style (although I fear I'm horribly deluded in this).
I was all for naming them after type designers but my children pulled rank and have named them after (appropriately) Thunderbirds characters: Scott Tracey, Lady Penelope (a perfect chickeny name if I ever heard one) and The Hood.
For anyone interested (is anyone interested?) they're ISA Browns, the Ford Escort of the chicken world and their gentle clucking is now the soundtrack to our little corner of suburbia. Estimates suggest we could be harvesting up to 300 eggs for breakfast, per be-colmed head, per annum.
I'm not sure if it's a peculiarity of our geographical location but the Winter provides slim pickings for the cloud spotter. The Spring, on the other hand...
Coming Soon: The Return of Found Type Friday
If you've sent me stuff, the usual apology; I've been working on a secret, soon to be revealed, design project.
A message from Mr Bierut:
Finally, "Decipher," our holiday cryptogram mailing, is available on an online version for hours of play at home.A taste of the print version is here.
Best,
Michael
Does anyone know who illustrated these covers? They're signed "Blake" but interweb research has drawn a big fat nothing, or rather, nothing but a slightly stoat William and the fact that he did a bit of illustration too just doesn't help, even though he was well dead by the time Esso commissioned these.
It'll only take an hour at the most to read from cover to cover but it'll be an hour well spent. Better still, watch this old thing first and you'll hear him talking off the page as you read.
