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Gunnlaugur Briem
Briem is a fantastic Icelandic calligrapher and type designer. His typefaces: - Briem Akademi (1997-2002, Adobe).
- Briem Gauntlet (1997).
- Briem Mono (2001). A typewriter typeface.
- Briem Operina.
- Briem Script (Adobe). a multiple master font.
- Briem Times (1990). This was the basis for Times Millenium, used by The Times. Read about the controversy at that page.
- HS Headline (2015). He teamed up with Hasan Abu Afash for this fat calligraphic didone display typeface. Briem contributed the Latin part, while Afash took care of the Arabic, which is based on the simple lines of Naskh calligraphy.
Author of these [free] books: - Tenniel's Alice. The complete set of 92 illustrations for Alice in Wonderland (1866) and Through the Looking Glass (1870). by Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), the most famous Victorian book artist. His drawings for the Alice books were engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, and are reproduced here in a 300-dpi resolution.
- Briem at the Type Archive. Fifty pieces, reproduced in one-fourth of original size.
- Briem in Tipoteca Italiana. Fifty pieces, reproduced in one-fourth of original size.
- The Briem Report 2012 (2013). The book ranges from from pyrography to stonecarving. It deals with low-resolution hinting and handwriting therapy for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It contains over a hundred entries of work samples and notes by leading letterforms practitioners.
- Cursive Italic News. The Barchowsky Report on Handwriting, Vol. 2 No. 3.
- Handwriting Models. Handwriting Models is a facsimile of the first Icelandic copperplate copybook by Benedikt Gröndal. This is a brief instruction in a new style that was introduced in Icelandic schools in 1875. Blackletter cursive had been replaced by the documentary hand of the British Empire. Italic handwriting succeeded it in 1984.
- Handwriting Repair.
- Italic Persuasion.
- Model Sheets for Arts and Crafts 1. Model sheets for Arts and Crafts: Johann Theodor de Bry's Neiw Kunstliches Alphabet, 1595 is a reprint of Vorlagen für das Kunstgewerbe, Herausgegeban von Carl Hrachowina. 1. Band. Künstliches Alphabet von J. Th. de Bry, Wien, Verlag von Carl Graeser, 1886.
- Modern Alphabets. Facsimile copy of F. Delamotte's Examples of Modern Alphabets Plain and Ornamental, Crosby Lockwood and Son, London 1913. The book was first published in 1859.
- Arrighi's Operina. Operina (1522) is a slim volume of 32 pages. Each page was printed from a separate woodcut by Ugo da Carpi, who is best known as a master of chiaroscuro engraving. The author, Ludovico Arrighi, was a copyist, papal scribe, publisher and type designer.
- Russian Calligraphy. A lighthearted look at calligraphy and decades of teaching by Leonid Pronenko the author of Calligraphy for Everybody (in Russian). Many of his students at the Kuban State University in Krasnodar have gone on to successful careers in design and calligraphy.
- We're doomed; what else is new? Briem's keynote address at ATypI 2011 in Reykjaví.
Keynote speaker at ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik. FontShop link.
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EXTERNAL LINKS
Gunnlaugur Briem
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Monotype link
Monotype foundry link
Klingspor Museum page
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INTERNAL LINKS
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The type scene in Iceland ⦿
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Books on type design ⦿
Typewriter fonts ⦿
Typefaces and type design for Arabic ⦿
Sketched typefaces ⦿
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