This is a few months old, but it shouldn’t be a surprise that I’ve been delinquent about posting it here for posterity. (Blah blah not paying enough attention to the blog yadda yadda.) Over the last year, we’ve been letting the D&AD come down to Monotype‘s archive in Salfords to film people exploring the material there. The resulting film clips are part of the Inspired by Typography section on their site, part of a growing collection of material to hopefully get people excited about this stuff.
In this clip, I go fishing through a box of original drawings to investigate some things drawn by the mysterious Fritz Steltzer, and then come across some really sublime original drawings by Imre Reiner for his typeface Mercurius Script.
I’d never seen Mercurius before, and when we filmed this I thought it may have been an unreleased design — or at least one never digitized — but it turns out it’s still available. I’m not completely wild about the actual typeface, which somehow lacks the ZING of the original drawings. I think it may be mostly an issue of spacing and fit, so maybe I’ll get an opportunity to tinker it with it someday and see if I can get it right.
I also make a few guest appearances in this earlier video they shot at the office: