omairways asked:
Veteran graphic design/typography and letterpress teacher from the London College of Printing: David Dabner talks… giving an insight into the principles of design, creative letterpress and why computers make students sloppy. … printing metal type graphic dabner grierson design typography typesetting letterpress fonts lcc lcp london graphics
haha love this! classic
great man, great tutor, dodgy taste in music… long live dave dabner
lcp typo class of 1999…
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I did headline photosetting, and film seperations and platemaking but never did letterpress. I’d love to give it a go
what a good video! I think I may link this to my professor from my typography class.
BTW whos that guy in the video at 2:30…HE’S HOT!! mMmMM
Why are you so horribly abusive?, this man does not eat babies, he has not robbed your Nan blind of her roof tiles.
My take is that start on paper first, get to know what you are doing at the hard level – that way you have better control over what your ideas on the computer.
the movie is amazing, bravo for the guy who was recording and editting
i love the effect letterpress print gives to type, i want to try and do this in one of my assignments but i got no access to a letterpress machine
I agree, the guy in this video is retarded. This video is from an old person that looks down on the computer’s who says people need to accept that computers are better, but doesn’t himself. Hypocrite.
The first thing this guy said is computers are sloppy and good typographers can think. CLOSE MINDED!!! Of course you want to sketch things out somehow before you come to your final design, but computers can sketch almost as fast as any person. If you stick to your first design, either your a genius or your client doesnt give a ****. haha Next, he says Typography rules haven’t changed. The rules are forever changing.
what designers (especially amatures) get confused about is that a computer is only a tool. No matter how nice it looks in the screen, the computer will never give you a great design. You have to start with the basics; research, draw, thumbnail, rough, and final. Thats why hand made or machine made designs look so much more elegant and HUMAN then a print out from a thousand dollar printer.
5/5 great video
Computers for your production environment, But computers save you time because they implement things on your behalf, when learning you need to go to the basics so that when it is time for you to make something new, you are not constrained by what is already there in a computer program, so that later your new thing can make it to the computer again (Note, i am a software developer, if this is in any way relevant). As for lazy, I don’t understand what he means exactly, will not take at face value
Typography in Englang meant printing .
Typography in America meant free hand lettering writing.
I am not sure ….
This indeed was a great view. And why the division? Why one or the other? I know it’s already been said a couple of times here, but there is room enough for both. I’ve scanned in plenty of printed type! I believe setting type manually definitely gives you a stronger eye when it comes to setting it digitally. It gives a greater appreciation for kerning for one.
Great video.
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The argument that technology makes people stupid, keeps them from thinking, makes them lazy, or otherwise detracts from the quality of their work is an old and tired one. People allow themselves to become sloppy, and their work less substantive, by their own volition. People, not technology, are their own worst enemy.
McCain/Palin ads have horrible letter spacing.
I think it’s great, because it helps you think about the end product especially if you are going on sheet fed press, and it teaches you control. Then after that point you can use your control on other tools. Just like in a darkroom there is a certain spirit same thing with letter press, if for nothing else but history use it once.
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I love how we blame our laziness on other things outside of ourselves.
very nice…
I would love to learn typography this way!
I appreciate the beauty of the lithograph machine, and I do feel that computer’s can make people lazy. However, any tool that makes a process easy can make a person lazy. In the long run, I feel its what you say that marks you as a thinker, not with how many steps or how long (or not) it takes you to say it.