OK. So I am having a limited run of tshirts printed for an even t I’m doing and I have extras. I thought originally that I would bring them along with me but I do not have the room… My solution. Give them away to people who buy the font. Why not? Hey, you’re gonna [...]
$50,000 for Islamic Calligraphy (by a Japanese)
A work of Islamic calligraphy by a Japanese artist sold on December 16, 2010 for $50,000 in a Sotheby’s auction in Doha, the auction house said. The work was created by Koichi Honda, 64, a professor at Tokyo-based Daito Bunka University. Honda is known as an Islamic calligrapher. The 61-year-old professor of international relations at Daito [...]
New Release: Tactical
Tactical is nothing more than a testosterone-laced typeface. Rigid, mechanical and unforgiving. Originally conceived in 2007 while I was working through the early sketches of Ginza, Tactical features hard 45-degree angles and the presence of a curve for curve’s sake is just not there. Complementing the original is a Stencil variant (inspired by the military, [...]
Nori Selected for 2011 Communication Arts Annual
Since 1959, Communication Arts has published the best in visual communications from around the world. The 2011 Typography Annual features Nori on a full page From Communication Arts: We were thrilled to receive 2,135 entries to our first Typography Annual. We were especially happy with the international submissions. We received work from 48 countries, 26 [...]
Sudden Words, Suddenly Gone
from NPR: Shinichi Maruyama, who lives in New York, takes a glass of water (or sometimes a mop or a big calligraphic brush) and with a swirl of his hand or his wrist or by some voodoo which he probably can’t explain, he is able to turn sheets of liquid molecules into Japanese calligraphy. He [...]
Nori Wins TDC Certificate of Excellence 2011
I’m excited to announce I received word that Nori was selected to receive a TDC2 2011 Certificate of Typographic Excellence. Only 20 entries of 180 submitted to TDC2 2011 from 28 countries were selected by the jury.
Enormous New Year’s Shodo
Japanese calligraphy is a challenge at the best of times. So why go to the trouble of using a piece of paper as large as the side of a bus, and a brush that’s almost two meters long and weighs 50 kg? Come New Year’s and the usually urbane pastime of shodo(Japanese calligraphy) suddenly grows in [...]