February 2010
3 posts
January 2010
10 posts
interview
Heller: You are dedicated to the painstaking craft of type and typography. You produced much of your most important work using hot metal types. What did you think when digital typography was introduced and so many typographers used the medium to create anarchic typography? Weingart: That my work was mostly done with hot metal types comes from the fact that I have been around for a long time! We...
alternative paths
The Shakers: They invented hundreds of laborsaving devices from the clothespin to the circular saw, which they shared without patents (some of these machines launched brilliant industrial careers for the men who borrowed them), nor were they frightened of useful inventions.
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definition
(want of a comprehensive definition of the value of handmade design)
Michael Perry: Hand type may not always be the right answer or the most time-effective solution, but it is definitely the most fun. It’s the answer I go to most often. It shapes my work and the work of so many around me. It is the answer that keeps the artist from taking himself or herself too seriously and infuses some...
websites
http://blog.craftzine.com/
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
http://metrixcreatespace.com/
“To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history, knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.” — Le Corbusier
library list
1/ Lifting Depression by Kelly Lambert
2/ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
3/ Fingerprint: The Art of Using Handmade Elements in Graphic Design by Chen Design Associates
4/ Hand Job: A Catalog of Type by Michael Perry
5/ The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
6/ “Computers, Pencils, and Brushes,” Design Form and Chaos by Paul Rand
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folklore
“John Henry is an American folk hero, famous for having raced against a steam powered hammer, and won, only to die in victory with his hammer in his hand.”