Oct 21 2020 - The Butt Type Project

 

Ed Benguiat has led me to the Butt Type Typographical Project.  There's one of his fonts in the project.  It is something to see - so click on the link  HERE.   This is a project by Swedish graphic designer Viktor Hertz. Butt Types is a visual exploration of typographical butt art using 50 different fonts.  He has a larger collection of "Typornography" if you search on it. Here they are to demonstrate how amusing this is.       Today we take you down Moyer Road in Vineland, turn the corner towards the lake and then look down Cherry Ave to Highway 8. When the leaves are gone, you'll be able to see Lake Ontario.  Vineland Estates Winery and Megalomanic Winery are along this route.

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Oct 20 2020 - The Font of Knowledge

 

Ed Benguiat was one of our most prolific typographers.  He died this week.  He created more than 600 typeface designs mostly between 1970 and 1995. He was born in New York in 1927, and grew up in Brooklyn.  Ed was once a very prominent jazz percussionist playing in several big bands with Stan Kenton and Woody Herman, among others. About his career, he said: I'm really a musician, a jazz percussionist. One day I went to the musician's union to pay dues and I saw all these old people who were playing bar mitzvahs and Greek weddings. It occurred to me that one day that's going to be me, so I decided to become an illustrator. Here are a few of his quotes: I do not think of type as something that should be readable. It should be beautiful. The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde. I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad. The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose. I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad. Examples of his fonts are HERE.  His most notable include: Tiffany, Bookman, Edwardian Script, Caslon No. 225, and self-titled fonts Benguiat and Benguiat Gothic.   His own favourite? "My favorite alphabet is one that no one uses or likes; it’s called Panache, a plain sans serif letter with thick and thins in it. And my least favorite is Comics Sans, the downright ugly and awkward font used in Snoopy that everyone seems to love.”

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