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Casual Optimist, Friend from the Internet and all-round nice chap, Dan Wagstaff, pointed me in the direction of Ulrich Planer's typewatching blog. It's refreshingly simple and is packed with great examples. Being European, there are loads of great script logos. Ulrich very kindly agreed to let me bring some of his images over here.
It's an interesting fact that artist/illustrator Paul Hogarth was an actual decendant (albeit a distant one) of more historically noteworthy artist William Hogarth. In a way, it's such an obvious idea that you might think in actual fact that it's unlikely. But there it is. It's true. I looked it up.
Until recently, that's about all I did know despite being an admirer of Hogarth The Younger's compelling artwork; largely because my admiration of his work has been such a slow burner. You see for once, the first Hogarth covered books I bought were actually purchased for their content; I've been a Graham Greene fan for many years and Hogey was Greene's illustrator of choice. It took me a while to work that out.
Once I got that and once I caught the Hogarth bug, I looked out for more. There's obviously just a few here, you'll find more on Flickr. Some are "conventional"; straightforward scenes inspired buy the text and some feel more "designed"; the construction of the work hinting at a draughtsman-like approach coupled with something not unlike collage – only using drawn fragments.
I've hardly scratched the surface of Paul Hogarth, I suspect someone better qualified and equipped will capture a more fitting record of the man's life and work at some point. His obituary from 2001 reveals much about his fascinating life.
Not much has happened around these parts since last Friday. Just a massive pile of work to consume very every waking hour and then some. I did stumble across Tom Gifford's excellent gathering of found type over on Flickr. Tom very kindly said it would be OK if I snaffled some for here. Thanks Tom!
I'd kind of forgotten all about FTF. And we were so close to a century. So I'm going for one last push; just a few more to go.
I don't think I'll ever tire of the ferry. I'm sure I've mentioned it before so I won't bang on about it too much. The newly refurbished, wifi-enabled, still crappy fooded, now even faster ferry is great. And we got a superb day for our crossing; beautiful, bright and absolutely freezing out on deck. One of the best things about this ferry is how much "on deck" there is. Expansious and multi-floored; on a warmer day you can even visit the sun deck. This wasn't one of those days. What you do get outside though is a real sense of scale. Standing under the…er…big thing at the back, you feel dwarfed.
I stumbled across The Salvage Press the other day. Lovely work…
The Salvage Press is devoted to preserving, promoting and pursuing excellence in design, typography & letterpress printing. It is the name under which artist & designer Jamie Murphy produces his letterpress printed books and broadsides.
Take a look. Or follow them here and/or here.
Deborah from Point dropped me a line earlier, with details of the conference running in May. It's a stella line-up…
Between 2–3 May, the Point London conference explores the theme of 'Authenticity'. Point is a non-profit organisation of designers raising awareness of the power of great design to change business, education and society.
Through over thirty presentations, screenings, performances, workshops and events, conference delegates can interact with design heroes, thought leaders and innovators. The line-up of inspirational speakers includes, amongst others: Magnum photographer Bruce Gilden, Olympic Torch designers Barber Osgerby, Seymour Chwast of Push Pin Studios, Jonathan Barnbrook of 2013 Bowie album cover fame, Font Shop founder and typographer Erik Spiekermann, digital innovator Nicolas Roope of Poke, Blackpool Comedy Carpet designer Andy Altmann of Why Not Associates and BCC artist Gordon Young, Matt Webb of enabled product and service designers Berg, Adidas brand director Gary Aspden, public space designer Morag Myerscough plus exclusive screenings of filmed interviews with design icon Milton Glaser, Magnum photographer Elliot Erwitt, and the late graphic design master Alan Fletcher.
If you follow me on Twitter (What do you mean you don't?) then you may have noticed that every now and then I tweet links to old blog posts. It struck me a while back that there's loads of stuff buried in the archives that many might have either missed or forgotten. On a personal level I've really enjoyed re-visiting all the old stuff. Stuff of days gone by. From back in the day…etc, etc.
Some of the really early stuff, I think, warrants more than just a tweet. Way back then I only posted a few images. This pack of maps for example, from when Czechoslovakia was still a Central European Sovereign State was barely covered.
I picked it up in Prague when I was on my Stag Weekend. By day, we stalked secondhand bookshops; by night we got rat-arsed on Absinth and inexpensive Czech beers. Ah, if these maps could talk…
Easter Weekend and we found ourselves on a sightseeing bus in Glasgow. It's been a while since I've been to a city I haven't visited before and even though one or two people had rained on the parade we were about to embark on, by dissing Scotlands largest city, we soon came to realise they were wrong and Anne was right: Glasgow's ace!
Lots to see. From the bus, it was largely the large stuff we took it.