Renaissance Anomaly
May 30, 2013. Reader Ivan Filipov sent me this curiosity from the FOX/Starz tv show Da Vinci’s Demons. I haven’t seen the show, but this is definitely a typographic anachronism...
The Evolution of a Typeface: Coquette
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May 30, 2013. Reader Ivan Filipov sent me this curiosity from the FOX/Starz tv show Da Vinci’s Demons. I haven’t seen the show, but this is definitely a typographic anachronism...
October 7, 2008. I started watching the critically-acclaimed series Mad Men on DVD over the summer, and I am enjoying it a lot. I was a little kid in the early 1960s. Watching it is like stepping back in time. People really did used to smoke and drink like that. Of course, the show is set in the early 1960s, so I had to write a “Typecasting” piece about it….
You might wonder: Where does a type designer like me spend his days? Do I have a fancy office in a skyscraper in downtown Saint Paul? Do I have a receptionist? An H.R. department? Interns? An espresso bar? None of that. I work by myself out of a repurposed back bedroom in a modest 1920s-era bungalow in the quiet residential Saint Paul neighborhood of Saint Anthony Park. Let me show you around...