Creative Family Ministry

  • Home
    • Family Stories
  • Pam's Blog
  • Podcast Ponderings
  • Put your mask on first.
    • Poems
    • Good Reads
    • A few more good reads
    • Art Retreat >
      • Art Retreat Sites
  • Family Bookclub

A treat at the end

6/25/2014

0 Comments

 
Picture
So here is a curious thing about me -

When I get to the end of a book, I like reading about the type in which it was set. I know nothing about typeface except I am drawn to the shape of things. I notice the shape of things as I move through my day. I have a little collection of scraps from magazines, ads, and worship bulletins that have interesting designs. I think one day I will use them or be inspired by them in creating art of my own.

When I get to the end of a book I keep turning the pages until I get to: ABOUT THE TYPE. Sometimes it is one sentence and sometimes it is a story unto itself.

Here is what I found today at the end of The Trouble with Poetry and Other Poems by Billy Collins.

        The text of the book was set in Filosofia. It was designed in 1996 by Zuzana Licko, who created it for digital typesetting as an interpretation of the sixteenth-century typeface Bodoni. Filosofia, an example of Licko’s unusual font designs, has classical proportions with a strong feeling, softened by rounded droplike serifs. She has designed many typefaces and is the cofounder of Émigré magazine, where many of them first appeared. Born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, Licko came to the United States in 1968. She studied graphic communications at the University of California at Berkeley, graduating in 1984.

See? It is like a treat at the end of the book. A little gem. Like when you finally arrive at your hotel at the end of a long day and you see a chocolate on your pillow. Whether it was an easy journey or fraught with peril…here is a treat.

Whether it was a great read or disappointing…here is one last creative splash on the page before closing the back cover: ABOUT THE TYPE. A little extra treat to savor.

~ Pam



0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Pam Voves

    On my own journey as a dabbling artist, a lover of stories,
    and grounded by my call to accompany people on their journey of faith.

    Picture

    Archives

    October 2020
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    February 2019
    June 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    August 2015
    May 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012

    Categories

    All