This month I’ve been talking to Naim Sheriff from design blog ProcessMade about fonts and our new FS Pimlico. We also chat about vinyl covers, toy art, architecture and London in a very spirited interview. Follow the link below to read it:
http://processmade.com/fernando-melo-from-font-smith-designing-fs-pimlico
Never leave your iPhone with your mates in the pub!
Fontsmith > Font Production Assistant
Fontsmith currently has an opportunity to offer to a keen, enthusiastic and typographically motivated individual. We are looking to recruit a full-time Font Production Assistant to help us in the production, testing, and manufacturing of our digital fonts. This is an opportunity for someone to help us in continuing to develop our font designs into expanded character sets and to explore new scripts and markets.
A keen eye for great type design and typography is a must. Candidates should have first-hand experience with digital font development tools such as FontLab and experience with publishing packages such as InDesign.
Duties will include the production, testing, and the manufacture of fonts into industry standard formats, as well as the ongoing investigation of developing font technologies. Applicants will be expected to exhibit strong analytical skills and good problem-solving abilities.
Professional experience is not necessary. This position is open to applicants of all levels, from recent college graduates to experienced type developers.
The position is full-time at our offices in Bermondsey Street, London.
Required Experience:
- Experience with FontLab
- Proficiency with Mac OS X
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows
To apply for this position, please e-mail us here in the studio at info@fontsmith.com along with some samples of your type design work and your CV.
The final day for applications is the Friday the 18th of November 2011.
If you have any further queries at all, please do let us know.
All the best,
Team Fontsmith
During a few travels last year I came across an amazing amount of hand painted lettering in South America.
I was a bit nervous of speaking at TYPO London, as it has been about 4 years since I stood on a stage and talked type. However I put some images together and talked honestly, and openly about what we do here at Fontsmith. I think I did okay especially when people hang about afterwards to have a chat and say nice things to you. I arrived at work this morning to this lovely e-mail. This is why I do what I do…
“Dear Jason
I was at your talk yesterday at typolondon and I think it was really inspiring, I am not a typographer, I’m studying at Csm and as you probably know we don’t have a proper Typography pathway, but we try to compensate this with TSI and Phil Baines. (and I think that designing typefaces could make my life better, but right now I’m trying to ignore this).
I’m writing to you because I didn’t have the chance to get one of your amazing collection of booklets, one of my friend did, she was sitting in the front row, I arrived late as I was in the other hall, so no more booklets for me. Is there any possibility to have one? I saw it yesterday and I loved it.
Thank you so much for your talk!”