Turkey Day

Not that I give a flying duck about turkeys (I'm from Sweden) but I am VERY thankful for the specimen book from 1889 that my father in law gave me... with the comment 'I don't know if it's very up to date, but I saved it just in case'... Yay!

1. The bowed legs of the cap M in Prokyon.

I’m typo-thankful for:

1. old-style or lowercase numerals, especially Claude Garamond ones.

2. Macromedia FreeHand 8, solid, almost bug-free, and a great tool to design with precision. Illustrator is very handy anyway.

3. Rick Valicenti's book "Bliss in the Hills" (available at Emigre).

4. Lucky friendship "metastasis" between more and more nice letter designers from all around the world.

5. Joshua, for typographica but also for the beautiful Nebiolo specimen he sent me (hey, you promised to send me some more!) ;-)

And you?

i'm thankful for pumpkin pie!

I'm thankful for:

people who "get" design

art directors and production managers who have been generous enough to hire us

beautifully designed books—old or new

gorgonzola cheese

my husband's kisses and hugs

- my dear ones (you know hoo you are)

- (realtive) health

- not being poor

- not being lonely

- venetian renaissance typography

- stephen's cool link to the poster guys

- design that *functions*

oops thats more than five. sorry

- you?

i am thankful for ...

... the good health of my family.
... the internet.
... turbo-charged engines
... constructivism
... nebiolo grapes
... macromedia

and of course typografica and all involved in it!

1. the lovely collection of music i have - i can't live without it. speaking on that note: get danny krivit's expansion cd on nrk now! or on 4xlp vinyl, i got them both and they sure rock.

2. the lovely low prices of type sometimes which gives me (as a poor student) the change to buy some. thanks chank, thanks letterror, thanks typotheque, etc.

3. my girl giving me kisses at night.

4. akzidenz grotesk

5. alot, for instance the bush-world feature at www.ourmachine.com

*** you?

Just five?!

1. Food.
2. Other people.
3. Duality.
4. The future.
5. OK, a font: Nomina.

Possibly in order of importance.

hhp

BTW, Mr. Schwartz, that titling font, that must be the one you once mentioned with the "decorative trapping", eh? Details, please!

hhp

In no particular order:

1. 18 point eWorld Tight
   
2. CSS2 adjacent-sibling selectors
   
3. Barcelona (the band, not the typeface)
   
4. that Fontographer still runs on my G4
   
5. and that we Canadians already had Thanksgiving last month

g.

BTW, Mr. Schwartz, that titling font, that must be the one you once mentioned with the "decorative trapping", eh? Details, please!

that's Amplitude, which i'm still kerning because the family has ballooned to a ridiculous number of styles (part of the reason i'm not around here much anymore). the first chunk of the family should officially be out early next year, but at least one publication is currently working with a beta version... it will eventually have 7 weights in 5 widths, some for test and display, some for display only. i don't know what else to say?

but while we're on the subject of sans serifs, has anyone else seen FF Zwo? (sorry, their site is too hard to link too. it's the frames.) i haven't seen it on paper yet, but i think it's pretty nice. FF Danubia is interesting too. and the flamboyant styles of FF Ginger are AMAZING.

by the way, the pumpkin pie has been relocated.

nice AA collection there mr. coles. nice stuff by them kids.

That's plenty! Thanks.

Zwo doesn't do it for me. Danubia though is very interesting - reminds of WAD. And those Flamboyants! Wow. Have you seen deGroot's Punten? It has a "Straight" cut and two levels of "flamboyancy". I first saw it at ATypI-99, and a paragraph set in the "Random" style had these astral rivers flowing through it.

hhp

Can you tell me where you got the poster hanger you use for the Aesthetic Apparatus posters you mention? Thanks.

Oh, they're just cheapo plastic hangers I got at my local Posters Plus. I'm sure you can find them on the web somewhere.

The aluminum hanger suspending the Autobahn poster is from designobject.com, but you might find it cheaper elsewhere. It's by Oskarv of Denmark and this dude.

I'm thankful for:

1. My graphic designer husband (even though he's always leaning over in the middle of movies to tell me which font is being used).

2. Old rickety houses with lots of character

3. The U.S. of A

4. My kitties

5. The thrill my husband gets from industrial structures & quarries

Jodi — Your husband should get a thrill out of this.

Isn't the cannibalization of third-world countries to feed hicksville gluttony just grand?

hhp