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Category Archives: History
100,000 Readers! Thank you
It’s actually 101,759 readers. What started three and a half years ago on July 26, 2011 has now reached a major milestone in blogging for the graphic arts. The Blognosticator has reached and exceed the 100,000 reader mark. I started … Continue reading
CNC router owners: meet the quoin
For centuries printers have been locking-up type inside a frame called a chase, then putting the chase into a printing press to complete letterpress printing projects. The method for doing the lock-up was originally done with wooden wedges which were … Continue reading
You wanted kerning! You get kerning!
Last week I promised to write a blog about the next step in making my Lining Livermore typeface. I thought I was farther in the process than I was. Getting letters to fit adjacent to each other is a difficult … Continue reading
Drawing the lozenge for Lining Livermore
…continued from yesterday’s blog I’m probably never going to need the lozenge character in any typographic project I do. Nonetheless, it’s there, ready for me, whenever I choose to use it. That’s exciting. The lonely lozenge. I don’t know what … Continue reading
Typographical archaeology for Lining Livermore
Continued from yesterday’s blog… After I created the scan of my type proof, I opened it up in Adobe Photoshop and made some corrections (I rotated the G and the O), and I did some tonal clean-up to make the … Continue reading
Digging into history for a “new” digital type design
I am the faculty advisor of the Shakespeare Press Museum at Cal Poly. The museum is a working collection of type and printing presses that collectively represent the history of relief printing from 1850 to 1950. This is one of … Continue reading
Posted in History, Software, Typography
Tagged antique fonts, Antique type, Cal Poly, font design, Lining Livermore, Shakespeare Press Museum, typography
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When I was 17 years old I bought my first professional 35mm camera. It was a Nikon F. My high school friend Bill’s dad was a pilot for Braniff Airlines. His schedule took him from San Francisco to Tokyo every … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, History, Photography
Tagged 35mm film, Nikkor lens, Nikon F, original Nikon camera, Tri-X film
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Planning and preparation pay off
How do you explain to students, children, associates, business partners – anyone – how important it is to plan? I am a pretty good planner, and I was especially careful to plan my photo exhibition that opened last Friday at … Continue reading
My alma matercopter
I was visiting the Warbirds museum at the Paso Robles Airport early last month with my friend Jim. This museum has a collection of old airplanes, trucks, and other items related to the military from the 20th century. It’s an … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, History
Tagged Coast Guard, Coast Guard helicopter, helicopter, HH51, Sikorski, USCG
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Mass storage in perspective
I got an e-mail from a friend with a link to a Facebook page where a photo was displayed of an IBM hard drive was being loaded onto an Pan American airliner with a forklift. The disk, according to the … Continue reading