Sadly, there is very little printed material about the life of FG Cooper. A Google search of him will only produce, The Lettering and Graphic Design of F.G. Cooper by Leslie Cabarga.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
"AN AMAZING SIGNATURE OF AN AMAZING DESIGNER"
Frederick G. Cooper (1883 - 1962), aka F.G. Cooper, was one of America's foremost illustrators in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Designing pictorials and covers for Life magazine and numerous other periodicals of that era as well as WWI posters. He is one of the most recent illustrators to have influenced other designers to creat a typeface based on his writing style. Specifically, Oswald "Oz" Cooper's (1879-1947) Copper Black.
A Sample of FG Cooper's lettering style producted some time between 1914-1918.
A sample of Oz Cooper's Cooper black designed in 1922. Its hard not say that one FG did not influence Oz.
Sadly, there is very little printed material about the life of FG Cooper. A Google search of him will only produce, The Lettering and Graphic Design of F.G. Cooper by Leslie Cabarga.
A great book filled with numerous sample of his work.
A few more pieces of FG Cooper's work. His signature is a great example of wordmark logo.
Sadly, there is very little printed material about the life of FG Cooper. A Google search of him will only produce, The Lettering and Graphic Design of F.G. Cooper by Leslie Cabarga.
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Have you ever watched this video?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.veer.com/ideas/btt/
I usually show it in Type I, but we haven't had a good time to watch it yet. You might like it.
Now I want that F.G. Cooper book! thanks!