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Lettering Class at City College of SF starts 8/16/06

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:02:41 GMT

Hi Folks,

I am happy to report that I have a Lettering class starting up soon. We did this last year and it was fun!

GRPH 151 Lettering and Type
Wednesdays: 1:00–5:00pm
CCSF Ocean Campus: 50 Phelan Ave., Health Center 207
8-week course: August 16–October 4
CRN 76937

Here is a gallery of last year's student work:
http://www.ccsf.edu/Departments/Graphic_Communications/Gallery/Student/Lettering_Type/Lettering_Type.htm

And here is the catalog entry for a formal description (ignore the pre-requisite):
http://www.ccsf.edu/Catalog/Art/grphcors.html#GRPH%20151

All that entry requires is enrolling at City College:
http://www.ccsf.edu/Offices/Matriculation/step1.htm>.

Everything else we can take care of on the first day of class. It's a one-unit class, making it a whopping $26!

Feel free to email me with questions,

Amy Conger
aconger@ccsf.edu
http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~aconger : my academic web site
http://www.abecedarienne.com : my fonts and art web site

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SF Public Library Calligraphy Show and Demos

spidra — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 01:24:15 GMT

Calligraphy Demonstrations

Sundays, Main Library, Lower Level, Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

July 2: Meredith Klein - Creating Colorful Envelopes for Correspondence;

July 9: Georgianna Greenwood - Mastering Materials for Calligraphy;

July 16: Carl Rohrs - Writing Large: La Spazzola Grande;

July 23: Christopher Stinehour - Writing in Stone;

July 30: Judy Detrick - Writing History: the Uncial Alphabet

Related Exhibition: From June 4 through August 31, 2006,
Main Library, Sixth Floor, Skylight Gallery

*Kalligraphia 2006: An Exhibition by Members of the Friends of Calligraphy -

Featuring recent artwork by members of the Friends of Calligraphy (FOC), a nonprofit Bay Area group founded locally in 1975 with over 500 members worldwide. This year marks the 11th time FOC has held its Kalligraphia exhibition (which occurs every three years) at the Library. Works by both amateur and professional calligraphers range from traditional to expressionistic and experimental and show the rich possibilities inherent in the art and craft of calligraphy. Cosponsored by the Book Arts and Special Collections Center.

For more information:
http://sfpl.org/news/Kalligraphia2006.htm

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Styles

Alex M. — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:02:31 GMT

I know this goes along the lines of tattoo lettering but was having a hard time finding a way to put my "2 cents" in on another tread. I'm trying to find out what kind of lettering they did for a guy who got his great grandmothers name tattoo on him on Miami Ink. Or something around that style. But I'm not sure what it would be called. Any help would be appreicated.

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New to Caligraphy

Lisa — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:29:09 GMT

Hi everyone,
I am new to calligraphy and was wondering if you knew of any websites that I can download calligraphy guideline paper..
Thanks a bunch
Lisa

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COVERT ARTWORK TATTOO"S

biguncleal — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 16:38:22 GMT

What I am looking for is what they called in the mid-late 50's early-mid 60's covert artwork I want to have a full face and side of head large scale tattoo done but i want to have several nasty-vulgar words added into the drawing-picture so you either have to be real close like a foot away or like 15+ feet to read it or its just part of the lines in the pattern-picture. There used to be don't know if its still published a childrens magazine called Highlites. It used to have several pictures in it where you would have to find the dog or anvil or several items or words, thats what I want to do. Anyone out there know where I can find such artwork on knows someone who can draw such artwork for me? Slave Allan

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Copperplate

JoolsterC — Fri, 13 May 2005 18:30:07 GMT

I've just embarked on the process of learning to write Copperplate. It's very different from using other calligraphy pens, it's rather like writing with a needle!! Does anybody have any good advice (apart from lots of practice) on how to achieve a good result?

(Am attending an italic one-day course in London tomorrow hosted by the Society of Italic Handwriting. Should be interesting!)

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Calligraphers?

Mojave66 — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:18:34 GMT

Any calligraphers here? I putz with it, I'm by no means a pro. I have a set of Sheaffer pens, a set of Speedballs & some off-brand points that are fun to putz with.

I'd like to putter with font-creation software someday, too, but have NO idea how to go about it.

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kerning

magnathree — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 07:01:09 GMT

who was kern?
i know what kering "is" or "means"
but where does the word come from?
anyone . . .

anyone . . . .

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C R A Z I E S T

buGG — Fri, 27 May 2005 05:30:31 GMT

*has sound!
check this out- it is 8mins6secs but is interesting and nutty!
http://www.vidlit.com/craziest/craziest.html

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Typeface Design Course - SoCal

Thu, 12 May 2005 19:20:07 GMT

Please spead the word:
http://typophile.com/node/9498

Registration deadline is tomorrow!

hhp

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I do like lettering...

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 05:55:12 GMT

...and I'm new here. Hi!

I've taken a long break from formal handlettering but i'm practicing again. It seems downright meditational now.

Anyway, you can find my art and fonts at http://www.abecedarienne.com if you want. Cheers!

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Letterheads meetings??

bryan-at-totalrock — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 12:36:57 GMT

Has anyone here been to any Letterheads meetings anound the world? My first was in Bloomingtom Indiana back in 91 i think.

"Letter Rip" was the theme. I had a total BLAST and was hooked!
I met some great chaps, many of them I had been reading about for years in Signcraft Magazine, Signs Of The Times, and others.

If ANY of you have not yet attended, CHECK IT OUT! If you want more info, or links, let me know.

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Left-handed calligraphers

markdong — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 05:28:48 GMT

I have been enjoying calligraphy for years. Writing with calligraphic pens with my left hand, I had to conform to a right handed tool! Frustrating at times especially for those flourishes when using those dang metal pen nibs that can get caught in the paper. I've actually come up with my own ways to write and have already tried the "left-handed" nibs but to no avail. I can write pretty smoothly otherwise but wanted to know if there are any other lefties out there who've got some finesse or tricks with technique when writing. Yes, it's a right-handed world (in more ways than one!!)

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Glass for the Canvas and Gold on the Brush

albertoforero — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:17:14 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/31/nyregion/31gold.html?ex=1109307600&en=42be1a8a91315e98&ei=5070&oref=login&oref=login

Glass for the Canvas and Gold on the Brush
By MICHELLE O'DONNELL

Published: January 31, 2005

Flakes of gold leaf snowed through the air, twirling upward and falling, and grabbing at any surface as they fell. A few airborne specks found the forehead of the small man who brushed the leaf on to a window to make a sign for a NoLIta boutique called Sissy. The gold leaf that didn't break away reached toward the dampened pane and expanded on the glass as if in deep exhale.

"Gold leaf jump on this, from this spot to this area," said the man, Jerry Pagane, who was seemingly unaware of the gold on his brow. "It jump. That's the nature."

Mr. Pagane is so small and fine-boned that it appeared he could fit comfortably in one of the larger leather bags the boutique had for sale.

As he spoke (he is deaf, and speaks in something of a drawl), bits of gold from the leaf of almost pure gold continued to tear and float away. Gold, what artists and kings through history have considered the noblest of metals, is indestructible, even when beaten into a 3-inch-by-3-inch leaf that is five one-thousandths of a millimeter thick. The bits that tore away from Mr. Pagane's brush would always remain gold, somewhere.

Mr. Pagane, 56, has produced a vast output of work over nearly three decades that has helped keep alive the dwindling legacy of gold leaf signs in the city's windows. Only a handful of sign artists in the city practice the traditional brush method of applying gold leaf to glass. There are other methods, such as silk screening the gold leaf on glass, but Mr. Pagane calls himself too much a purist to do that. Plus, it means carrying more supplies.

Gold leaf can also be applied to wood or concrete, but "glass is really the perfect surface for gold leaf," said Jennifer Longworth, a gilder and spokeswoman for Sepp Leaf Products, a Manhattan-based supplier of leafing materials. Its transparency allows the true color of the gold to shine through, she said.

"When you look at a gilded sign and see your reflection in it, that's a quality you could never see with gold paint," she added.

In the 1920's and 1930's, the windows of department stores and banks were gilded, using fundamentally the same gold-on-glass brush technique developed by the Turks in the 1200's, according to Kent Smith, a nationally recognized gilder from Greeley, Colo.

After World War II, the rise of plastic signs diminished the popularity of gold leaf in the country, Mr. Smith said. The craft hung on in historic districts and in cities like New York, where a number of stores, from the antique shops on East 10th Street to restaurants in lower Manhattan, have opted for the look of real gold on their windows.

Many of those signs were made by Mr. Pagane, an unlikely savior. Mr. Pagane, who has lived in the same rent-stabilized studio apartment on the Lower East Side since 1983, was born deaf. As a boy, drawing and painting gave him a badly needed outlet for self-expression. As an adult, an elderly neighbor introduced him to gilding, and the rest he cobbled together through trial and error, more or less like his language.

"You don't want to do it very windy," he said at Sissy, tapping a leaf onto a window that had been dampened with a substance called sizing. "You don't want any wind - do it windy. Like I say, gold leaf is lighter than a feather."

He finished applying the leaf and decided to take a break to show a reporter some of his other work in the neighborhood. He left the leaf, most of which still looked like wrinkled foil, to dry.

A few blocks away stood his Sistine Chapel, the restaurant Balthazar, its windows adorned with gold leaf signs with letters rendered in matte and shiny gold leaf, and lined in red paint. Elegantly dressed people pushed out the vestibule of the restaurant's bakery, brushing up against Mr. Pagane, who was dressed in Levi's and an old jacket. He gazed at the windows, which spoke French in gold leaf: "BAGUETTES, CROISSANTS, BRIOCHES."

Then it was into a cab to see a retrospective of his work - besides gold leaf, Mr. Pagane has gained attention for his acrylic paintings and wood block prints - at the Clayton Patterson gallery, which is open by appointment only. It was a few blocks away, on Essex Street.

"Sax Street," Mr. Pagane told the driver.

The driver said he had never heard of it.

Mr. Pagane looked surprised. "Really?" he said. "Sax Street. Five block away."

It took some repeating to iron out. The driver was cross. Mr. Pagane didn't notice.

The gallery had some pieces of Mr. Pagane's gold leaf work; there was a giant "J" resembling a letter in an illuminated manuscript, but one about three times as wide as its creator, and taller. But most of the pieces were his wood block prints he had made that showed life on the Lower East Side the 1980's: fires, drug addicts, homeless people and a woman who used to appear in Tompkins Square Park with a bird on her head.

Clayton Patterson, the gallery owner, grinned wolfishly, revealing gold-capped teeth, and said that Mr. Pagane's scenes of firefighters rescuing people from burning buildings were the product of Mr. Pagane's own story: abandoned as a baby, he was rescued from a life in institutions when a foster family took him in when he was 14.

Mr. Pagane said, with some irritation, that the rescue themes had nothing to do with his childhood.

But Mr. Patterson had the facts about right. Mr. Pagane, who was born without ears, was abandoned by his mother the day of his birth (Dec. 24). He bounced through institutions and temporary homes, then, at 14, became the foster child of Robert J. Simonds and his family (Edie, his wife, and five biological children) in Mount Lebanon, Pa.

By then, Jerry had endured 27 operations to create ears from skin grafted from other parts of his body, and still he could not hear.

Mr. Simonds, now 80 and living in Manhattan, said he worried whether Jerry would take to his family. The Simonds were tall (Jerry stood 5 feet 2 inches when he came to them) and thrived on Scrabble and palindromes. But that proved a strangely useful metallurgy for the foster son's adaptation to his new home.

There was the day Mr. Simonds came home and heard from the bathroom the whirring of the electric clippers with which he gave all his sons crew cuts. Jerry, small and wiry, emerged with his ears, created with skin from his pubic area, covered in blood.

"Have hairy ears," Mr. Simonds remembered Jerry saying. "Other kids don't have hairy ears. Want to be like other kids."

After the trip to the gallery, over a slice of pizza on Spring Street, Mr. Pagane said again that his prints of rescues had nothing to do with his childhood. It was just a coincidence, he said. Later, when he returned to Sissy, it was dusk and the gold leaf had dried. The wrinkled leaf had become as smooth as the glass, and it winked back at the dab of gold on his forehead.

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Album Update: Old School Lettering

albertoforero — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:09:15 GMT

Check it out!

-Alberto

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www.typographi.com & tattoo lettering

J. — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:11:21 GMT

Looking for info & resources on tattoo lettering for a short entry to appear at Typographi.com, of which I am an editor. Email hundertwasser@yahoo.com.

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Tattoo lettering

Pete — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 22:13:05 GMT

I saw the picture of the blackletter tattoo in the album and was wondering if anyone had any examples of especially good lettering tatoos.

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What's your favorite type of lettering?

albertoforero — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 03:41:34 GMT

I like it all, but if I had to choose one I'd go with the virtuoso copperplate scripts and ornaments.

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Album Update: Handwriting samples and more!

albertoforero — Sun, 08 Aug 2004 01:27:44 GMT

Check em out!

-A

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Album update: 19th c. decorative and lettering sets

albertoforero — Sat, 07 Aug 2004 04:44:21 GMT

Check it out!

-A

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Album Update: mid century modern

albertoforero — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 03:41:53 GMT

Check it out. 50s Italian typeface sample and misc.

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Even more pix in album

albertoforero — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 03:39:19 GMT

including an awesome alphabet tat.

Check em out

-A

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New pix in album

albertoforero — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 04:00:27 GMT

Hey all,

I've posted some new pix in the album, check em out. Some are from Typophile.com, which you should check out if you haven't. They have a nice Found Type gallery.

Alberto

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TypeCon 2004 in San Francisco - July 21-25

Scooter X — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:57:21 GMT

Anybody here going to this event? I'll be there on the 21st and 22nd

http://www.typecon2004.com/

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translation-ish...

Rob — Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:50:57 GMT

Hello all (how you doin Alberto, long time!),
I use various languages in my artwork & I'm looking for translations for some very simple words/phrases... problem is, translation services on the net are big buckeroo$, and this is just for personal/fine art use, not commercial.

I've got some great fonts that've been available free (such as that wonderful Yugoslavian website that's no longer active - http://www.bg-online.co.yu/xtra/fonts/)...

such as Chinese, Hindi, etc., but I'd really like to find some help with these basic word trans., so any feedback is appreciated;).
Peace,
Rob
::)(::

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I'm all famous an' junk

SavageSinister — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 07:34:38 GMT

Received an email this week from a rep at Penguin/Puffin publishing, confirming that my font Zombified is indeed free, and can be used on a series of books they're doing, adorning artwork by Edward Gorey.

Pretty friggin' cool.

I've posted one of the covers in the Tribe Gallery.

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New Photos in album

albertoforero — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 01:42:46 GMT

check em out!

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What types of lettering do you do?

albertoforero — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 23:55:22 GMT

I have been drawing letters informally for a long time, but recently I have started to teach myself the speedball techniques. I hope to learn some copperplate also. I'm also learning about designing my own typefaces.

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New Photos in album

albertoforero — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:06:04 GMT

check em out!

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Welcome to I like lettering!

albertoforero — Wed, 28 Jan 2004 01:48:41 GMT

This is the place to discuss lettering in all its forms: Gothic writing, italics, Copperplate, Roman, Show card lettering, etc.

Please feel free to put your lettering work in the gallery

Alberto

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