April 5, 2016
Rod McDonald: Positively Grotesque
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TDC Salon: April 5, 2016. “Positively Grotesque” with Rod McDonald
Rod McDonald speaks about his just-completed Classic Grotesque™ family, consisting of 56 fonts — work that breathed new life into the early twentieth-century Monotype Grotesque series. Rod discusses how he developed the Monotype Classic Grotesque™ font family, discussing his personal journey of discovery through 110 years of grotesques. Since beginning his career as a lettering artist in the 1960s, Rod McDonald’s work as a designer, educator, historian and writer has encompassed virtually every aspect of the typographic arts. McDonald has worked both as a freelance typographic designer and on the staff of such renowned typesetting companies as Mono Lino Typesetting and Cooper & Beatty in Toronto. This talk was sponsored by Monotype.