Published in PRINT Magazine earlier this month…the story of Sackers typefaces from Monotype, and how these engravers fonts came to Monotype—one of the best-known font technology companies in the world. Monotype is also the font development company responsible for creating JMC Engraver and Feldman Engraver and making them available free for the launch of my book, The Complete Engraver. Engravers […]
Chasing Sackers – Story of Engravers Fonts Read More
Monogram, letter writing, and printing arts entrepreneurship classes currently available for registration: 04/08/17 to 04/09/17 Two-Day/6 Hour Monogram and Print Intensive Bowne Printers Workshop South Street Seaport Museum, New York City 04/22/17 Monograms: Your Very Own Personal Monogram 10:00am – 12:00pm CDT Gallier Historic House 04/22/17 How to Write a Letter 1:00 – 3:00pm CDT Gallier
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Monogram seminars and classes are now scheduled for April and July, 2017 and featured in Veranda Magazine. New for this year are longer form instruction. These include a collaboration with Bowne & Co. Stationers which is part of South Street Seaport Museum, New York City, and a week long book arts entrepreneurship intensive at Wells College in Aurora, New
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“It is difficult to escape the stressors of the modern day, with our cell phones always at hand, awaiting our touch. At a moment’s notice, they can reach out to anyone, wherever they may be. Some might say that such conveniences have influenced the decline of handwritten communication. However, until recently, there was a steady
Onion Skin 2017 in Victoria Magazine Read More
In this fourth segment of the ten part mini-video series in which Nancy Sharon Collins, stationer extraordinaire, talks about engraved stationery…Collins says that not many typographers know about engraving. Little wonder this is so because engraving isn’t in the canon of typography. Mrs. Collins likes to change all that and share what engraved letterforms are all about.
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