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Lanston Studio



Gerald Giampa

From the past :�)



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Gerald N.--Nice drawing! When was that from? I'm guessing seventies or possibly early eighties, judging from some of the items in it.

Gerald Nicol,

Reminds me of the old days too. I am sort of inbetween. My present office is rather nice though, fireplace, wooden floors. Small, simple, Sparton like. I stopped buying things I can't take with me when I'm gone. Besides I spent my life tied down to equipment. Now I am a bit of a vagabond.

But I have some ideas. Ideas are bad for me.

Gerald Giampa/tramp

Gerald Nicol,

The illustration says so much about the person "not" sitting in the chair. That is a compliment by the way.

Gerald Giampa

Gerald G.--

I like the photo. Very funny.

Is that really part of your studio? Wow.

Mark,

Briefly, early winter in Helsinki. Borrowed not bought.

Living in Tr�sk, Houtsk�r now, an Island close to �land which is between Finland and Sweden. I was hoping to have a raindeer but they eat moss which is not available on the island.

I need permission to show the picture of where I plan to have my next studio. Unusual to say the least.


Gerald Giampa

I've also got a drawing table, but here's where I spend most of my time:



I work out of an office/studio in my home. Also, it's not usually this neat.

Just for fun, I did one in 3D: msstudio3d.jpg (360k).

To view it properly, you'll need anaglyphic (3D) glasses with the red filter on the left and the blue filter on the right.

Silly? Yes. But loads of fun in a sort of geeky way.

Mark, cool 3D! And it looks like a high-performance setup.

BTW, I never knew you were a conjoined twin... ;-)

hhp

BTW, I never knew you were a conjoined twin... ;-)

Heh... Yeah. I've got two systems hooked up to the same monitor/keyboard/mouse through a switchbox (just below the screen). That way I can switch between OSX on the laptop (with dual screens) and OS9 on the Cube (for FOG work mainly). Not a bad compromise and it saves desk space.

I meant your chair. :-)

hhp

Oh, that. Very funny. Well, have you ever seen the old Python skit about the man with three buttocks? It looks like it was maybe designed for somebody like him, doesn't it? Actually, it's just supposed to be better for your back.

I don't have any pictures of my present work area. When I started working from home most of the time, I colonised the dining room table. We have not had a dinner party for two years now.

I still keep an office in a building downtown, but only go there once or twice a week. I keep it because I don't have anywhere at home to store more than a small fraction of the library (the dining table is now surrounded by stacks of books related to current projects). The office looks like its been wrapped by Cristo: a couple of years back, a small fire elsewhere in the building caused sprinklers to go off on six floors, causing a huge amount of damage. My floor wasn't affected, but now I'm paranoid and have wrapped all my bookcases in heavy-duty plastic. If you want a book, you have to crawl under the plastic to retrieve it.

I need to move to a bigger apartment, or a house, so I can set up a proper home-office and bring my books.

If all this sounds inconvenient and uncomfortable, it's not so bad, and I have an Aeron chair. It only seats the usual number of buttocks, but is extremely comfortable.

Ok, lets go, here after an image of my studio dating back last May 2003


Its seems that I have the same table as Mark S?!

On this page you've got more pictures, all with the orange wall are my main room. You just miss the angle of the room with the table where the PC laptop/old Grey G3/Scan are.

http://www.typofonderie.com/Gazette/PTFExpo03.html

Its seems that I have the same table as Mark S?!

It's a very logical arrangement, don't you think? Mine wraps around behind me to a peninsula that serves as extra workspace or a table for client meetings.

I'm guessing you like the color orange. :-)

We are very logical guys!
The part more close to you on the image as similar use as you describe, but for my own visitors and clients: they sit the other side, on the right on the image.
Orange? really? hum, my bathroom is also orange. :-)

In your case, its more a dark yellow?

I am beginning to get a bit worried. My workspace at home is orange too. As is my studio at work.

Is there some link between typography and orange? We should be told!

It just looks yellow in the photo because of the incandescent lamp behind the monitor. It's more of a sand/tan/light brown. With grey/green as an accent color.

This is starting to sound like HGTV. :-)

Ah! Now I see you've redecorated your avatar as well. I'm not sure I realized that the old one was a cedilla before.

Orange: I feel so out of it.

> Is there some link between typography and orange?

Le go�t hollandois?

hhp

David:
>Is there some link between typography and orange? We should be told!

I'm not sure about orange. What I'm sure is there is a connection between typography and black (from reliable sources). ;-)

Mark:
Not yellow? ok I accept it, but sound strange, as you use it for your logo on your website, who is actually a sun, and the sun, to date, still yellow.

Yellow walls? Oh, I don't know... That's getting too logical for my tastes. Besides, I think it would clash with the woodwork.

I would like to see some other people put pictures up.

I've got a pretty bad low light sitch going on here so I'll run and get my tripod and take another pic . . .

Stuart :D

'typographe =E0 l'orange'

Actually my wall is green. Although I almost chose to do it ... hmmh, orange. Not the dutch one (would have been to loaded by clich=E9e; I am livin= g in Holland), but the more fox (?) orange, going more to brown then to yellow.

--Jacques

PS: J-F: white has been proven to be a nice colour, favoured by some fontdesigners too.

Jacques?
white: for walls or counters? I'm curious...

For walls: the second part of my studio is white, my kitchen too.

For counters: generally, I try to make white the counters of my glyphs, but as noticed, I love black weights, where white are at minimum.

(sorry where going too far in our philosophical debate?)

Well,tu as commenc�,

it is just a thought: black wheights are funnier than light wheights.

---Jacques

> going too far in our philosophical debate?

Obviously, a real type designer has walls of black... and rooms filled to the ceiling with milk. ;->

> My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

My favorite album of all time. Does yours have the Qur'aan track (#6 or 7)? Some CDs do and others don't. A friend of a friend of my brother stopped talking to him (the friend) when he heard him listening to that.

hhp

I would post a pic, but I am *just* the business end of a design firm. So, in my office you will see a couple desks, a phone and nice little titanium (15").

Nothing too exciting. Us 'suits' are all the same! ;)

Now, if I took snaps of the designers' offices that I work with ... that would be different.

Yves Peters,

Mr. Giampa, excuse me for the cheap shot, but you look a lot nicer chap in your picture than you sometimes sound like in your posts. All in good humour, Gerald!

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Yves,

You are the master of that "Irony" word.

Gerald Giampa

Yves,

Is this what you expected?



Gerald Giampa

My studio. Usually a mess.

Great
••••••• ...on the wall, I like that ;-)

Tiffany, your studio is a tesseract?

Your space is the coolest so far.
And a calendar can do so much more than just tell the date anyway.

hhp

I still haven't got roundto taking a photo of my desk. But I just found this picture of my office online.The pink building in the middle of the picture is my office.

I wish we saw buildings like that down here :sigh:

Chris

The building is on a courtyard, which was built by the Romans in about 100AD as a mile castle on Hadrians Wall. In the corner there is the original Roman well. It's amazing to think people have been living and working on this spot for about 1900 years.

Jim
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I'm surprised there aren't more pictures in this thread. Too much talking and not enough showing. Here is my desk at work:



For an in-depth look at my working space, and if you have nothing to do, go here http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup_v2/desk/

My working space at home is currently undergoing renovations (i.e. it's a ••••••• mess and I can't show it) but it's not much really.

I don't have a digital camera, my 35-mm SLR was stolen in
San Francisco two weeks ago, and my APS SLR has no film...

I'm on an old maple-wood dinner table on one side of the bedroom, facing glass doors to the backyard. Scanner on the left, laptop in the middle (flanked by speakers), printer on the right. Scanner stacked with papers and crap (yes, I know it's bad for it). Part of my books are on shelves to the left, part on my bedside table, most in a closet upstairs. Close your eyes and work with me here.

Oh, and a plunger always handy.

hhp

Armin--Enjoyed the tour. The rollovers are a nice touch.

Hrant--

Oh, and a plunger always handy.

Stop! I'm going to have nightmares now. :-)

Too bad about your camera. A digital camera is very handy
to have around. But really, is it so hard to get a roll of film?

Go get the film, take a photo, (eject the roll after 2-3 shots?), take the film for developing, pick it up later on, scan it, photoshop it, then load it up. Just so you guys see how lousy my workplace is. Right.

I was going to get a digital camera as a replacement for my Canon Eos (which I bought in Barcelona ten years ago - man had it seen some action - and to think it was stolen from inside a paid ship-museum - and to top it off the guy in lost&found ended up telling me we should just nuke the Arabs) but I'm worried about: the reaction time after the press; cost of printing the photos.

hhp

>Oh, and a plunger always handy.

HA! I keep two of them now.

>Armin--Enjoyed the tour. The rollovers are a nice touch.

I did that page for our own "show your desk" thread at Speak Up and, yes, I spent waaaaay more time on it than I should have.

See also this.

I think this link was on Grant's site a while back.

And this.

Here's a picture of my desk at home. It's the same image that appears in the workspaces gallery mentioned my Mark and is a bit old. I should take a shot of the whole room, I suppose...

hey, same gear as mr. hutchinson.

my comfy home office:

.....part of my room

David, do you work for Warner Bros. or something?
And, is that a David Levine drawing of Frank Zappa?

And, is that a David Levine drawing of Frank Zappa?

Looks more like Gauguin than Zappa.

why


this is Paul Gauguin. my study - after the MASTER David Levine ( from "The arts of David Levine" p.58. a rare book + his autograph )



David Hamuel