Darren Scott Typographics

Darren Scott Giclee Art prints now available to buy!!

The first batch of Limited Edition Giclee Art Prints by Darren Scott are available to purchase online from Paper Scissors Stone.  The prints come in A2 and A1 and are strictly limited to editions of 25.

http://www.paper-scissor-stone.co.uk

A great life manual.

I have just finished the book ‘It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be’ by the advertising legend Paul Arden.

Paul Arden was a creative genius whose extraordinary drive and energy is allied to a kind of common sense that just isn't, well, common. Paul Arden began his career in advertising at the age of 16. Formerly Creative Director at Saatchi and Saatchi, he is responsible for some of Britain's best known campaigns including British Airways, Silk Cut, Anchor Butter, InterCity and Fuji and famous slogans which include 'The Car in front is a Toyota' and 'The Independent - It Is - Are You?'. In 1993 he set up the London-based production company Arden Sutherland-Dodd where he is now a commercials director for clients such as BT, BMW, Ford, Nestle and Levis. Sadly Paul Arden died in April 2008, but he remains a legend.

"It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be" is a handbook of how to succeed in the world - a pocket "bible" for the talented and timid to help make the unthinkable and the impossible possible. Advertising guru Paul Arden offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, making mistakes and creativity, all endeavours that can be applied to aspects of modern life. This book provides an insight into the world of advertising and is a quirky compilation of quotes, facts, pictures, wit and wisdom, packed into easy-to-digest, bite-sized spreads. And you can read it it an hour.

Original Berlin[er] Drawings

These are the original sketches of my first ever typeface Berlin[er]. The font was designed 1995 for the digital type magazine FUSE. It featured in issue 15 which had a theme of cities.

I decided to use Berlin, I was really into the work of Meta Design, Cyan and Grappa who were producing some great work in the city that was a real source of inspiration to me at the time. 

I wanted to create a typeface that reflected the instant graffiti art found on the Berlin Wall and traditional Germanic blackletter typefaces. This led to a blackletter font that could be quickly stencilled on to a wall as it didn’t have any counters or negative space. This was then softened with rounded terminals on the stems to give a sense of modernity, which led to the more code like glyphs in the final digital font.

The font can be purchased from the T-26 digital type foundry in Chicago. 
(www.t26.com)

Enjoy.

Classic Font Specimen Books

 

Thought I would share a few more of my old font books with you.

These were given to me by my good friend Steve Jackaman at International TypeFounders, Inc. (ITF)  in Philadelphia. They have some amazing version of some long lost typefaces.

One is a Ludlow Typograph Company Catalogue who which was founded in Chicago in 1906. Not sure of the date of the catalogue but it’s a beautiful thing.

The other is a One Line Manual of Styles by Photo Lettering inc. And seems to be a 1980’s reprint of a 1960’s original. Features some amazing undigitised masterpieces.

A real gem.

My 1986 Letraset catalogue!

Pulled this out yesterday whilst looking for a reference to the original Reebok typeface, Motter Tektura, and thought I would share it!

It an original 1986 Letraset Catalogue, amazing retro font selection, most of which you can’t buy digitally. Offers a real snap shot of 80’s typographic trends.

Pistilli - Great Ampersand

Found this reference to Pistilli, one of my favourite ampersand designs in one of my old Typesetters catalogues.

Pistilli Roman is a typeface collaboratively designed by Herb Lubalin and John Pistilli. Pistilli was a partner with Lubalin in New York City at the firm Sudler & Hennessey from 1949 to 1964.

The top ampersand is the original letterform and below is my version redrawn with slightly different curves.

I decided to redraw this and get into the mindset of what Lubalin and Pistilli when trying to achieve. 

Like walking in the footsteps of two typographic legends.

Coffee Diagrams

I love a good diagram, and these are very good and very useful.

They were designed by Lokesh Dhakar.    

www.lokeshdhakar.com 

Pictogrammatical error!

Saw these hand dryer instruction on a blog today and thought it was very funny. 

Sexy Wallpaper

I recently designed a Tart Card in aid of St Brides Library in London. The cards were featured in the July 09 edition of Wallpaper Magazine with was called - The Sex Issue.

DST Rub On typeface used by Cusquena.

Just noticed that Cusquena are using my Rub On typeface that I designed back in 1996.