spécimen général

This is a French type specimen book filled with beautifully amazing type and ornamental borders. I borrowed it from my friend Sam, who borrowed it from the BYU Library. To give someone the benefit of the doubt, someone then in turned borrowed it from me. The problem is that I’m not sure who that someone is or when (or if) someone intends to return it. I imagine sharing a few samples here would only make others want to “borrow” it more than ever before. But… if you borrowed it—or know who borrowed it—if you would unborrow it, me and Sam and the Harold B Lee Library would really appreciate it. Thanks.
Otherwise, just enjoy the samples that I scanned from the book before it’s disappearance.

I know I said I wouldn’t talk about this anymore and I want to hold to that, but I can’t stop other people from talking about it, right? Here’s a pretty cool article from Font Shop’s “Unzipped” blog about the piece.

we do, it's true.

come August, we’re moving to NYC from Utah. More details to come…

colenielsen(dot)com(backslash)blog

this may or may not be the best idea.
but i’m taking on the computer, html, ftp and all that jazz to bring you...
colenielsen.com/blog

the purpose of this is to be more design-oriented in the posts—maybe a little less personal?
i’ll post things that inspire me, scrap, links to articles, other designers, and so on.
i will also try to frequently update with images of projects that i am working on.

all the best. ~!


ps: it’s embarrassing to host a design-centric blog as ugly as this. i’m trying. hopefully this will all soon be figured out.