Category Archives: type
Linotype: The Film
Before there was the Mac and phototypesetting, there was the Linotype. Doug Wilson, former Marlinite, adjunct professor and world traveler, is working up a documentary on the Linotype machine. Messr. Wilson has posted a trailer to whet your appetite of near-ancient typography … Continue reading
Filed under Documentary, Movie Time, type
Ripping type a new one
Nobody tears type apart like Marlin friend and über talent, David Croy. As evinced in this sweet love letter he wrote to the Art Directors Club concerning their new logo, entitled The New Art Directors Club Logo Is Total Dogshit. … Continue reading
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Recognizing the art of pastry chefdom
Letterhead Fonts is featuring Marlin work done for Sweet Street Desserts. Take a look! The piece was a gorgeous, perfect-bound book, ostensibly holding the secrets on How to Fulfill the Demands of the Art of Pastry Chefdom,. In reality it … Continue reading
Brought to you by the letter “R”
Marlin’s very own Doug Wilson recently took a trip over the pond (and a few more, and an ocean) to the The Basel School of Design in Switzerland. Or as the Swiss call it, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Hochschule für Gestaltung und … Continue reading
Filed under Advertising, Business, Delicious, On The Road, type
Turning Gurmukhi (we really think so)
Just ran across a fantastic blog of South Asian typography, Hindi Rinny. In addition to discovering why you should know a certain artistic polymath named Satyajit Ray (responsible for the film poster above, as well as the film itself), you’ll … Continue reading
