LATELY I'VE BEEN SEARCHING and looking for designs with Caslon font and I've been running into cool print designs. Here's some of Patrick Hill's final work. Read more about Patrick Hill and look at more of his designs.
Dec 15, 2010
Designing with Caslon
LATELY I'VE BEEN SEARCHING and looking for designs with Caslon font and I've been running into cool print designs. Here's some of Patrick Hill's final work. Read more about Patrick Hill and look at more of his designs.
Public Art
CREATING PUBLIC ART IN the catacombs area of the cemetery in celebration of John Baskerville. Click Here to see more pictures
Designing with Caslon (Caslon Antique)
SOME WILL CALL CASLON THE FREEDOM FONT because it was the font of choice to typeset both The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States of America. For some thirty years prior to that day in 1776, Caslon was the printing standard of the British Empire. Unfortunately, Caslon’s creator, William Caslon I, passed away in 1766, and was unable to see his font in use for such magnificent purpose.
Those were exciting times of discovery, the beginnings of many traditions which found their roots in craftsmanship. Just as the New England silversmith Paul Revere would set the tradition of forging pewter “Jefferson” cups, Caslon’s insightful ability to craft beautiful letterforms grew out of his craft as metal engraver for (of all things) gun barrels! Caslon was born in 1722.
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Designing with Caslon
Those were exciting times of discovery, the beginnings of many traditions which found their roots in craftsmanship. Just as the New England silversmith Paul Revere would set the tradition of forging pewter “Jefferson” cups, Caslon’s insightful ability to craft beautiful letterforms grew out of his craft as metal engraver for (of all things) gun barrels! Caslon was born in 1722.
Read more at:
Designing with Caslon
Dec 8, 2010
Caslon The Engraver
CASLON STARTED HIS CAREER as an apprentice to an engraver of barrels and gunlocks. In 1716 he started his own engraving shop and soon began to make tools for bookbinders and silver chasers.
Baskervilles Books
IN 1757 HE PRINTED HIS first book “The Poems of Virgil it was printed at his house on a small press. After that he printed more work such as Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, Addison’s works, Aesop’s Fables, and “The poems of Horace” Baskervilles books was admired all over Europe and America, Benjamin Franklin was one of his subscribers. In 1758 he was appointed Printer at Cambridge University, where he printed a folio bible despite being an atheist.
Baskerville's Request
BEFORE HE DIED IN 1775, he asked not to be buried in consecrated ground. First he was put in a catacomb on his own land. Later in 1821 a developer cut a canal through the property, and the workmen found Baskerville's lead-lined coffin. Since it couldn't be buried in any consecrated cemetery, it sat in a warehouse until a plumber put it use as a workbench. Baskerville was finally moved to Warstone Lane Catacombs, a consecrated labyrinth where he remains today.
Dec 1, 2010
Caslon alphabet in pen
PAUL HOPPE'S FIRST ASSIGNMENT in his Typography class was to write the Caslon alphabet by hand. Here is a time lapse, its pretty damn good.
http://vimeo.com/6652339
http://vimeo.com/6652339
Nov 24, 2010
The Typographic Desk Reference
THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE is a quick reference guide of typographic terms and classification with definitions of form and usage for Latin based writing systems. TDR contains over a thousand facts on typography.
Written and designed by Theodore Rosendorf the guide includes a foreword by Ellen Lupton.
Credit
Caslon Font Family
PURCHASE THE ADOBE CASLON font family for your computer. Great package purchase (if you have the money.) Purchase Here
Body Canvas
GEMMA O'BRIEN AKA MRS.EAVES used her own body as a typographic canvas
http://www.youshouldliketypetoo.com/found-things/hot-typography-trends/
John Baskerville's Printed Bible
ONE OF JOHN BASKERVILLE'S works the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer
http://geek-life.com/2010/10/20/geeks-in-history-john-baskerville/
Nov 17, 2010
Declaration of Caslon
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