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Eloïse Parrack

Éloïse Parrack was born in 1977 in Bethesda, MD, Parrack graduated with an MA in 2006 from the University of Brighton, UK. Eloise undertakes commisions of book, editorial, identity and typeface design for print and web. She teaches graphic design at Winchester School of Art in Southampton, UK. She still lives in the UK. Since 2007, she co-managed Defalign with David Millhouse. In 2018, she enrolled in the Expert class Type Design at the Plantin Institute for Typography in Antwerp, Belgium.

Her typefaces include Raeling (2010, Volcano Type: a curvy light inline face).

Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp (with Eli Castellanos). The topic of that talk is a revival project of Hendrik van den Keere's Small Pica Roman (1578) at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp.

Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp (together with Eli Castellanos) on a revival project summarized as follows: In November 2017 an international cohort on the Expert Class in Type Design, based in the UNESCO world heritage site of the Museum Plantin-Moretus, embarked upon a collaborative project to research and revive a Renaissance-era typeface of the Flemish punchcutter Hendrik van den Keere from the collection of Christophe Plantin. Comparing Van den Keere's well-known Real Romain (1575) and Ascendonica Romain (1577) with his Small Pica Roman (1578), and investigating the patterning, proportions, and details, our research led to the design of a revival using Small Pica Roman at 9-point Didot size as a departure. Evaluations of the approaches of working in metal and standardization in type design at different optical sizes were considered, and were contrasted to methods and tools of digital typeface design today. The unique and rich historic archive of punches, matrices, and printed materials provided an exciting basis for our research, leading to some surprising discoveries counter to our expectations and to accepted theories found in many typography and type design texts. This project provoked a wide range of interpretations, approaches, and opinions about how to create a contemporary usable digital typeface, whilst honouring and imagining the intentions of Van den Keere five centuries past.

Volcano Type link.

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