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Frederic W. Goudy: A Tribute

Typocurious — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:05:09 +0000

If we may properly glorify the appellation of Genius, certainly Frederic Goudy was born to enrich typography and the printed word, and thus achieve immortality in our great Art Preservative of All Arts. From hand lettering and decorative design of his earliest work, in the eighteen-nineties, to type design and printing was a natural transition and [...]

Autobiographical Notes of a Type Designer

Typocurious — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:05:15 +0000

In the late ’nineties I began the study of printing and the design of types; by 1925 I had made many drawings for types for which matrices were engraved for me by the late Robert Weibking of Chicago. His work was technically satisfactory but I did not feel that the types cast from them carried [...]

FWG

Typocurious — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:05:23 +0000

It is now almost twenty-two years since the death of America’s most widely known and respected type designer, Frederic W. Goudy. The bare chronological facts state that he was born in Bloomington, Illinois, on March 8, 1865, and died in his home at Deepdene, Marlboro-on-Hudson on May 11,1947. Beginning in 1895, and ending in 1944, [...]

typocurious note 22

Typocurious — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:00:21 +0000

In honor of his birthday this month, Typocurious digs into the Lawson-Provan file of the American type designer-typographer-printer Frederic W. Goudy (8 March 1865–1 May 1947). All posts this month are culled from the Spring 1969, Number 27 issue of Typographer’s Digest, edited by Alexander S. Lawson. Lawson’s introduction kicks off ‛Goudy Month’ followed by: ‛Autobiographical [...]

Reminiscences of Uncle Eric

Typocurious — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:05:38 +0000

Friends, relations, colleagues and former pupils of Eric Gill were among the participants in two centenary events held last week. After hearing the homage paid to Eric Gill’s art and way of life at last week’s two centenary events, it came as a shock to read what some of his detractors had to say about him, [...]