Comments on: Interview: Phil Martin

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:36:37 +0000

Your article on Phil Martin brought back a lot of memorie as I ran the PT department in his New England Franchise. The first fonts were a little on the rough side but they greatly improved with his later offerings. I remember we used Jolly Roger in an ad and showed the complete alphabet. The company that copied it called it “Happy Sid” after one of its principals.

By: rockthatfont.com » infinite arms

rockthatfont.com » infinite arms — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:16:02 +0000

[...] Simonson conducted an amazing interview with Phil Martin in 2004, just before Martin’s death the following year. A bit of history [...]

By: WONK 5 fonts: Gentium & Heldustry | WONK

WONK 5 fonts: Gentium & Heldustry | WONK — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:49:39 +0000

[...] (Link to entire interview) Share and Enjoy: [...]

By: Simon Hep

Simon Hep — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:24:04 +0000

Cheers Stephen – completely missed that (I’d stupidly been searching for ‘CGHeldustry’ rather than ‘Heldustry’). The URW Bold has now joined my type collection.

By: Stephen Coles

Stephen Coles — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:24:31 +0000

Actually, Simon, there are Bold and Regular weights by URW.

By: Simon Hep

Simon Hep — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:22:17 +0000

Superb, friendly and thoughtful interview, many thanks. I was actually looking for information about CG Heldustry – really wish there was a propper bold and light version.

By: Jef Tombeur

Jef Tombeur — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 12:59:36 +0000

I’m quite pleased to see a real OT font made out of Phil’s Grad. But I come now to understand why, when, with Gunnar Swanson, we insisted for him to write a book about design (mainly, if not exclusively typographical design) and typography, he would prefer to write (also) about (many) other things. Which he did (see his site). We see font as art, maybe Phil sees an ad as art (because of the words, the idea, and the global visual result), and the fonts used in it as just tools. Maybe because he did so many, and it was a physical process (I remember Albert Boton telling me about the way he worked, alongside a few others, under the supervison of Ladislas Mandel), rather “materialistic”, painstaking, physically. I don’t mean this is the reason why, but maybe part of it. Fonts were not made of pixels at that time. We do not see them as he did.

By: geraint

geraint — Mon, 07 Jun 2004 08:50:22 +0000

mmm, nice.

By: Stephen Coles

Stephen Coles — Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:35:22 +0000

Norm’s dope caricature is finally back up. So sorry for the delay.

By: nick shinn

nick shinn — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 05:12:09 +0000

Sorry for not paying attention.
Please don’t deduct too many marks.
This thread got long in a hurry, and I skipped checking out a few links!