“Function is fixed, the alphabet invented and the basic forms of the letters are unalterable.”
- Stanley Hess, Author, The modifications of letterforms
“The Infinity and complexity of the reading public today . . . makes our alphabet rigid and unalterable. Now any change or modifications needs to be subtle as to be almost invisible.”
- Stanley Morrison, Type Designer
“Good lettering . . . is not self expression but complete self negation in the service of a correctly understood task.”
- Jon Tschichold, Type Designer
This one is my favorite . . .
“Letters are things, not pictures of things.”
- Eric Gill, Type Designer
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Creative Art Gallery // November 1, 2008 at 10:45 am |
Thought this may of interest to you.
“A Chip off the Block”
An exhibition of Eric Gill Woodblock Engravings and new works
by artists and sculptors inspired by the Gill tradition.
Saturday 22nd November – Sunday 7th December 2008
Creative Art Gallery, 43 Oxford Street, Woodstock are hosting an exhibition of Woodblock Engravings by controversial artist Eric Gill and new works by artists and sculptors inspired by the Gill tradition from Saturday 22nd November – Sunday 7th December 2008.
Alongside a selection of the woodblock engravings by Gill the exhibition also includes three Welsh slate alphabets cut by the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, whose original founder David Kindersley was an apprentice in Gill’s workshop.
Other works by new artists and sculptors will include Paul Mortimer, sculptor; Tom Kemp, artist and calligrapher; Tom Clark, sculptor; Bernard Johnson, sculptor and Emma Maiden, sculptor