Archive for September 2008
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I’ve been given a pass to the Conservative Party Conference here in Birmingham, as mentioned in PR Week. Anyway, I’ve chosen to cover the conference by blogging my sketches and other thoughts. Here is a quick sketch of former minister Malcolm Rifkind from my first day there. More to follow…
oh, and I should have mentioned, LolDeirdrie got there first…
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There’s a short piece (with pictures) on the lettering event the other day on the Baskerville project website, some photos on the Smile website and fellow letterer, Sarah J Coleman (aka InkyMole) has blogged about her contribution as well.
…or, A Very Special K.
Today, I’ve been contributing some work to a little project being produced here in Birmingham – Baskerville, a short animated film celebrating the life and work of local eccentric, printer, jappaner, gravestone engraver and atheist John Baskerville. Baskerville is probably best remembered today as the creator of the Baskerville font, although there is a rather extraordinary tale surrounding what happened to his body post-burial [scroll down]. Read the rest of this entry…
