In 1999 and 2000 I worked with Shannon Robards to make a video documentary about the work that Julia and Dan were doing at Golgonooza Letter Foundry.
As this first phase of the Refounding Golgonooza Letter Foundry project comes to a close I thought it would be helpful to show a brief clip of Dan working the casting machines that Julia and I have been learning to operate and troubleshoot. You can also see matrices made from his typeface Regulus which he hand cut in steel, completing it in 1998.
The full documentary is divided into four parts that cover the process. Eventually I’ll clean up this and the other segments and make them more readily available.