Gareth Wild and Michelle Thompson are an East Anglian graphic designer and illustrator, who live on the web at 59highstreet.com. They’ve come up with a way to commemorate the beautiful old village signs that are slowly disappearing from our lanes and hedgerows.
There’s such music in those village names. Ickleton. Elsenham. Sewards End.
Now you can own [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Typography'
Village typography
July 9th, 2010 1 Comment
Reynolds Stone
June 29th, 2009 1 Comment
Reynolds Stone was a hugely talented engraver who spent much of his adult life in East Anglia, staying on after a degree at Cambridge to be an unofficial apprentice at the Cambridge University Press and experimenting with engraving. A story quoted on his official website goes that he met Eric Gill on a train, who [...]
Tags: Bristish talent · east anglia · penguin books design · reynolds stone · times logo · wood engraving
Weight and Lightness – Gary Breeze
April 3rd, 2009 3 Comments
Gary Breeze is based in Diss in Norfolk, and calls himself a Lettering Sculptor – it encompasses more than the carving of text on stone or wood. He cares a great deal about what the words say, and makes pieces of work that are both technically excellent and very resolved and thought through sculptures that [...]
Tags: diss · gary breeze · intertextuality · lettercaving · lettering · memorials · norfolk · sculpture · stone carving · text · Typography
Typoretum
March 28th, 2009 1 Comment
The other day I fetched up in the lovely market town of Coggeshall in Essex to meet Justin Knopp of Typoretum about doing some bespoke letterpress work.
Walking into the studio is like stepping back eighty years or so, and everywhere your eye settles in the cramped space there is something interesting to look at. Four presses are [...]
Tags: bespoke · coggeshall · custom · garamond · greetings cards · letterpress · printed cards · printing · stationary · type · Typography · typoretum