Typocurious

John Howard Benson: A Brief Biography

Typocurious — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:30:44 +0000

John Howard Benson was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1901, attended the public schools, and, after five years of study at the Art Students League in New York, returned to live there. His mother, whose considerable artistic flair made her appreciate his similar inclination, was ambitious for him in this field. Disregarding the rather [...]

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Typocurious — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:00:27 +0000

My apologies to those few, frequent readers for being absent these last couple months. Construction of the studio has been consuming all of my time and I am happy to say it is nearly finished. Or rather, it is nearly to the point where I can use it for its intended purposes. Readers of Typocurious may [...]

Carl Ernst Poeschel

Typocurious — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:00:39 +0000

Aeltestesbewahrt mit Treue, Freundlich aufgefasstes Neue. . . . —Goethe The destruction of the firm of Poeschel & Trepte in November 1943 and the death of Carl Ernst Poeschel five months later marked the end of a career which more than any other had helped to bring German printing back into the mainstream of a European tradition. In [...]

Bradbury Thompson

Typocurious — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:54:13 +0000

On a brisk autumn morning, I boarded an early ferry out of Port Jefferson. As the ferry quietly glided over the gently rippling water, I thought about the design legend waiting for me on the other side of Long Island Sound. Bradbury Thompson is a designer I’ve admired for years. Although I’d never met him before [...]

Clay in the Potter’s Hand . . .

Typocurious — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:00:23 +0000

Perfect typography is a science rather than an art. A thorough grasp of the craft is indispensable but it is not all, for the sound taste which distinguishes the perfect is based on a clear knowledge of the laws of harmonious form. It is true that it springs, as a rule, even though only in [...]