This week , I ’m in San Jose , at the tenth annualArt Directors Master Class , an intensive three - solar day workshop for designers , lensman and artist headed by Adobe Creative Director Russell Brown and the Van Heyst Group . The theme of this yr ’s conference is literary pirate , and we ’re using Adobe ’s new Creative Suite 3 to build up such thing as interactional hoarded wealth single-valued function and our own plastic buccaneer action figure .
For me , the highlight of the calendar week so far — and there have been many — has been a presentment from Ina Saltz , author ofBody Type : Intimate Messages etch in Flesh , a fascinating and unusual novel book of photographs that will appeal to typophiles everywhere .
Saltz is a intriguer , artwork music director , and an associate professor of electronic design and multimedia at the City College of New York . She is also haunt with the world of “ typographic ” tattoo , the resolution of a serendipitous bus drive and a human beings with the word of honor ‘ happy ’ tattooed on his arm . What made that tattoo stand out to Saltz was the fact that it used an “ appropriately kern ” version of Helvetica . She took a pic of that tattoo , and discovered that there was a whole class of tattoo that were make with composition specifically in mind .
It ’s not just a photo book , although the photos are the master attraction . Saltz include many of the stories — some sad , some uplifting — attached to the world of many of the tattoo , and she sheds lightness on different categories of introduction , as well as unparalleled glyphs and rarified typeface . Many of the letterforms show up are stunning in their beauty , and the thought that drop dead into their designing can vary your preconceived whimsey of tattoos and the people who get them ( something Saltz herself tell happened to her as she make on this project ) . If you ’re overnice , though , be warn that some of the images — and their location — won’t alter your brain about anything , although I did n’t line up any image that would genuinely be considered obscene .
If you love typography , Body Typeis worth a look , and is price very reasonably at $ 20 . you may also look at some of the photograph from the book atwww.bodytypebook.com .
