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Humanform Letterform | Free Lecture

humanform_letterformSumner Stone delivers a free public lecture as part of Type@Cooper’s Herb Lubalin Lecture Series. Stone will trace the origins of seven letters that began as images of our bodies, and look at letters on bodies, letters made of bodies and bodies made of letters.

 Written, drawn, incised, digitized—letters are made by and for the human body. This presentation examines the many ways in which letterforms and bodies interact. These include how we use our hands, eyes and minds to create letterforms by inscribing them in stone, drawing them, writing them with brushes and pens, engraving them in metal, and digitizing them on the screens of computers.

Sumner Stone is a type designer, type founder, author, and teacher at Type@Cooper, a post-graduate certificate program that studies key typeface design principles. From 1984–1989, he was Director of Typography for Adobe Systems where he conceived and implemented Adobe’s typographic program. In 1990, he founded Stone Type Foundry Inc., which designs and produces new typefaces and creates custom designs for a diverse range of clients including Hallmark Cards, Stanford University, The San Francisco Public Library and more. His type designs include the popular ITC Stone Sans and the prize-winning ITC Bodoni.

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When: Mon., Aug. 3, 2015 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Where: The Cooper Union - The Frederick P. Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Square

Price: Free
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humanform_letterformSumner Stone delivers a free public lecture as part of Type@Cooper’s Herb Lubalin Lecture Series. Stone will trace the origins of seven letters that began as images of our bodies, and look at letters on bodies, letters made of bodies and bodies made of letters.

 Written, drawn, incised, digitized—letters are made by and for the human body. This presentation examines the many ways in which letterforms and bodies interact. These include how we use our hands, eyes and minds to create letterforms by inscribing them in stone, drawing them, writing them with brushes and pens, engraving them in metal, and digitizing them on the screens of computers.

Sumner Stone is a type designer, type founder, author, and teacher at Type@Cooper, a post-graduate certificate program that studies key typeface design principles. From 1984–1989, he was Director of Typography for Adobe Systems where he conceived and implemented Adobe’s typographic program. In 1990, he founded Stone Type Foundry Inc., which designs and produces new typefaces and creates custom designs for a diverse range of clients including Hallmark Cards, Stanford University, The San Francisco Public Library and more. His type designs include the popular ITC Stone Sans and the prize-winning ITC Bodoni.

RSVP requested.

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