Hardcore: Prepress Tattoo
Long time Adobe InDesign product manager Will Eisley is so dedicated to his job that it has gotten under his skin – quite literally. Will recently had his initials tattooed on his inner forearms, together with the registration marks, crop marks, and colour and grayscale bars which are part of InDesign’s printing marks. The next ink he has planned are “a series of 3′s in ITC Franklin Gothic Heavy. One of the best 3′s in all of typography, IMO”.
People tattooing their favourite brands or products on their bodies is not a new phenomenon – Nivas developer Daemon had the Adobe logo tattooed on the inside of his left wrist. Nor are typographic tattoos; art director, designer, writer, photographer and professor (at The City College of New York) Ina Saltz was the first to devote an entire book to this phenomenon. Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh explores the ideas and emotions behind this indelible commitment. From Shakespeare to Radiohead, from Dante to James Joyce, from celebrations of love to homage and memorial, the wide breadth of messages captured provides insight into the human condition. The book – which has been called inspiring, shocking, and voyeuristic – is recommended reading and viewing, not only for tattoo aficionados, but also for all lovers of the written word.
(via the blog of John Nack, Adobe Photoshop product manager)
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19 Comments:
The dude has his color bars inside his crop marks… He might be a quark user, or even worse.. corel..
i love tatts. i love type. this is perfect. thanks.
Perhaps I’m wrong but shouldn’t the reg marks and colour & grey bars not be outside of the crop?
Um, the color bars are inside the crop… Oops! Should have proofed it first I guess.
Hmmm, perspicacious readers. ;)
At least the tattoo is not misregistered. :P
Maybe the point is that he loves color bars so much he wants them in the trimmed print?
ITC Franklin Gothic Heavy is indeed a nice 3.
Some people have a thing with threes – we once received a request on Font Identification and Type Research, specifically asking for typefaces that have threes with flat tops.
Um, it’s not the most delicate line work now, is it? What’s the weight on those crops? Looks like it was done with a Sharpie…
@yves – i love the flat-top 3′s. i’m someone who will search for them :-) is there a proper name aside from flat-top? do the ‘other’ kind have a name?
Simon, heads up – look what I made for you. ;) I’ve only started it, so expect it to be completed over the coming days.
Oh, and as you can see I have no better name for them.
Wow, Yves! That is really cool (of you to do that, and also a cool feature of the site). Hooray for typography.
I want a tattoo on my lower lip!
@yves – sorry for taking so long to check this! thanks!!! you’re too kind :-)
a great list, i’m going to need to spend some more time going through it! just quick, did you have Dedica and Verveine from DaMa in the list? I saw a couple of others but not those :-D
oh, and Dispatch from FB :-)
I’m working on and off on the list. I fear I have already come to the point that I will need to split up the list in sublists with sans, serif, script, display etc.
haha! well, as the list was made for me, i’m finding it *very* handy! so feel free to split away :-D
ok, so i’m about to finish my course at uni soon (monday folios are due!) and i think i’ll get a flat-top 3 tatt to celebrate… now to pick one…
Hello
With regards to the tattoo that sparked at least half of these comments, I have to ask – what if those “lines that look like they’ve been drawn with a Sharpie” are bleed marks? And Will Eisley is just so cool he crops everything himself? With one stroke of a cable knife?
(this was a completely valid theory until I checked the registration marks)
(Wait – Will Eisley is so cool he registers in the bleed box.)
(he does this because his prints always come out right anyway)
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