Letter Collection

In Offenbach, we saw Godfrey Pott and his masterwork, Letter Collection. He was so passionate about type and calligraphy. He created the book for inspiration, which I thought was really interesting because I could never make something like that to inspire new work from myself. I feel like for me, that would be the work. Finding new inspiration outside of things I’ve already done is usually what I need. The book was filled with really inspiring theories and examples. My favorite page showed how letters in the same font relate to one another. I don’t usually think about fonts and designs in letterforms in the same way he does. I know fonts and why they look similar, but I never thought about it as how each letter forms a relationship with every other letter. I also thought it as really interesting that he always had an interest in letterforms but didn’t get into calligraphy until years after being a designer. When he told us he only had 5 months to complete this book, I was in shock. Something with that much thought and detail is almost impossible to do in that amount of time.