15 maart 2018
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Compunabula
Like Corey’s other typefaces, Compunabula began as a rejected logo for a client. He couldn’t let go of the design and tried to use it for other projects, but it “never felt right.” Still, he decided to explore it and see what happened. “I spent a marathon session, with little to no sleep, getting the basics of it down.” Corey’s friend (and fellow maker) Grant Hutchinson provided some technical and aesthetic feedback during the final stages, and “found a couple of errors that no rational person would have made, which I blame on my sleep deprivation. Once I realized that it was viable, the rest came easy.”
Grant also provided the typeface’s name. Grant explains, “Compunabula is a play on incunabula, which is defined as 1) books printed before 1501; or 2) a work of art or of industry of an early period.” Compunabula describes Grant’s ongoing affair with out-of-date computer equipment or technology.
Corey points out the term “fits the font rather nicely because who in their right mind would release a low-resolution bitmap font today? It’s an updated bitmap font, but still something very much out of fashion. As with many of my faces, the idea is to take two things that don’t go together at all and blend them.”
Product information
Typographer - Corey Holms
Date created - 2013
Number of faces - 5
Available formats - Open Type
Source
Foto-impressie B53 - Podium voor Hedendaagse Kunst
In de kunstcollectie van Joop Nuyens bevinden zich werken van beeldende kunstenaars die zowel als beeldhouwer als tekenaar actief zijn geweest, waaronder Adam Colton, Constant en Cornelius Rogge. Deze werken willen we tonen in de tentoonstelling 2D3D samen met 2- en 3-dimensionale werken van 6 hedendaagse beeldende kunstenaars: Carel Lanters. Marga Knaven, Bernadien Wels, Wout Herfkens, Ralph Lambertz en Ramon Eding. De tentoonstelling 2D3D in B53 Arnhem, opent op zondag 4 maart om 15.00 uur en duurt tot en met zondag 18 maart 2018.
B53, Broerenstraat 53 Arnhem, is de ‘opvolger’ van de vermaarde kunstgalerie VM23.
