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Continue reading →: type@cooper…day 5
Continuing to draw lowercase letters with an edge (calligraphy) pen. Not sure when I’ll “arrive”…and can start digitizing. Apparently I have really oily fingers…and left fingerprints on the paper that repelled the ink when I drew the letters! Still digitizing and refining… S is pitiful (which is why it is…
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Continue reading →: NYC letters #7
I’m bothered every time I see this sign (which is every day, as it’s right outside the subway station). A bifurcated crossbar on an F?? Eeek! Haha. From Sutphin Blvd in Queens
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Continue reading →: a trip to Talas
There is a bookbinding site called Talas that has a storefront in Brooklyn. So today I embarked upon a 6 hour adventure to Brooklyn from Queens…and I’m totally worn out from over 3 hours sitting on the bus. The store was great; it was hard to resist buying more than…
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Continue reading →: type@cooper…day 4
I cleaned up and finished the drawings that I began yesterday…and then Sumner suggested that I redraw them thicker and larger. I’m now in the process of cleaning them up and digitizing them. This is the first iteration: And this is the larger, thicker version:
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Continue reading →: type@cooper…day 3
First today we worked on making/faking different weights of the letters we drew yesterday. They aren’t proper weight changes, which is why you can see the counters of the bolder fonts have issues. But the goal from there was to take the mid weight and start modifying it in a…
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Continue reading →: NYC letters #3
From a neighborhood in Queens. Wish it hadn’t been painted over with the mint green!
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