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May 09, 2013
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I recently designed this asterisk as part of Font Aid VI: Aster Affects, organized by the Society of Typographic Aficionados, uniting the typographic and design communities to raise funds for Red Cross relief efforts after the events of Hurricane Sandy. From www.typesociety.org: “The project theme was represented in a typeface consisting entirely of asterisks and other star-inspired symbols. Over 250 designers from 41 countries contributed glyphs to the project. Behind the scenes, volunteers Neil Summerour, Delve Withrington, and Grant Hutchinson compiled, assembled, and tested what would become the final typeface.” Font Aid VI: Aster Affects can be purchased here.

I recently designed this asterisk as part of Font Aid VI: Aster Affects, organized by the Society of Typographic Aficionados, uniting the typographic and design communities to raise funds for Red Cross relief efforts after the events of Hurricane Sandy.

From www.typesociety.org:

“The project theme was represented in a typeface consisting entirely of asterisks and other star-inspired symbols.

Over 250 designers from 41 countries contributed glyphs to the project. Behind the scenes, volunteers Neil Summerour, Delve Withrington, and Grant Hutchinson compiled, assembled, and tested what would become the final typeface.”

Font Aid VI: Aster Affects can be purchased here.

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November 14, 2012
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Font Aid VI: Aster Affects A collaborative typeface for Hurricane Sandy relief The Society of Typographic Aficionados is organizing Font Aid VI: Aster Affects — a project uniting the typographic and design communities to raise funds for Red Cross relief efforts after the events of Hurricane Sandy.

Font Aid VI: Aster Affects

A collaborative typeface for Hurricane Sandy relief

The Society of Typographic Aficionados is organizing Font Aid VI: Aster Affects — a project uniting the typographic and design communities to raise funds for Red Cross relief efforts after the events of Hurricane Sandy.

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December 21, 2011
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A few weeks ago I finally saw Typeface, the movie, and started getting excited about TypeCon 2012 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I’m hoping that by the summer I will have saved up enough money and vacation time to be able to make the trip out to the mid-west to participate in TypeCon 2012. I’ve never used letterpress, but would love to learn how, and as a graphic designer I have a definite fondness of fonts.

All this to say: after learning about my slight obsession with typefaces and lettering, a family friend gave me an old set of rubber stamps that had been sitting in her basement for a few decades. It’s a complete upper-case alphabet and numerical set. Most punctuation is still there, and even the “&”, “½”, a some cool pointer-hands. The letters are about 2 inches in height.

The set was apparently bought from an antique shop in England over 30 years ago… Though I find it curious that it contains the $ and ¢ symbols, but no £ stamp, which makes me think that it could be American, Canadian or Australian. That’s about all the information I have about it. I have tried to search online for more clues but have yet to find anything useful.

If you have any insight as to where this set of rubber stamps came from, or if you know anyone that is knowledgeable about this sort of thing, please let me know! danielle (.) sayer (@) gmail (.) com

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