Kern sweatshirt

[pigasus]

http://www.veer.com/products/merchdetail.aspx?image=vpr0001260

Nerdy typesetting reference or a certain pharma. co.?

[Forrest]

I would totally get one, but $69 for a hoodie? Those boys at Kern are getting greedy.

[Rainer]

I would totally get one, but $69 for a hoodie? Those boys at Kern are getting greedy.

Which begs the question, when is Stereolaffs.com going to offer a "Sister Sheila" hoodie?

[Susannah]

Ugh, in my former life as a graphic designer, there was talk of my colleagues getting CMYK sweatshirts from that company.  Thank god for career changes.

[Ason]

 

I don't get it, Kern is a kind of typeface?

Almost sounds like some kind of programming bs.

now
Kern Pharm
done up in the style of Phat Farm clothing

you got something.

[Josh]

I don't get it, Kern is a kind of typeface?

Kerning is when you change the distance between letters:
ABBA
A   B   B   A
So when you unzip the hoodie you're changing the kerning in the work KERN.

Which begs the question, when is Stereolaffs.com going to offer a "Sister Sheila" hoodie?

I really do hope that's the next offering. That or maybe branch out into the reissue market and re-release some of those old records from bands like Jester, Paragon/Paradox, and Robot Face.

[ian]

There's a place on my way to work called KERN FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS that I've always meant to stop and take pictures of. I'll get on it.

[Sarah]

Having once worked for a company whose owner had a passion for typesetting, printing, and all things related to bookmaking, I've actually seen type handset.  Typesetting used to be such an insanely fussy process (oh, the nightmarishly tiny bits of metal used to adjust leading!).  I can understand those pretentious people with their "kern" sweatshirt jackets:  I'm attached to this archaic stuff myself.

[TVD]

Having once worked for a company whose owner had a passion for typesetting, printing, and all things related to bookmaking, I've actually seen type handset.  Typesetting used to be such an insanely fussy process (oh, the nightmarishly tiny bits of metal used to adjust leading!).  I can understand those pretentious people with their "kern" sweatshirt jackets:  I'm attached to this archaic stuff myself.

Yeah I'm a printmaking major and that typesetting stuff is for the birds.  I can't tell you how many hours I've poured over a template, putting individual spacers between letters and lines.  Then putting them back in the drawers uggghh.  It's tenuous (and pointless) when you can just screen print letters in like 10 seconds.

Regardless, cool shirt.

[Mason]

Ugh, in my former life as a graphic designer, there was talk of my colleagues getting CMYK sweatshirts from that company.  Thank god for career changes.

In my old life as a graphic design student, I would have found this kind of clothing hilarious and endearing. In my current life as a jaded professional designer, it turns my stomach when fellow designers get too precious about their job. So much that they wrap their whole identity around it. It usually goes along with them talking endlessly about their Mac workstation. I have a Mac and I like good design, but I never make the mistake of thinking I'm part of some (greasy) funky counter-culture. It's a job.

[Sarah]

I like that the language endures.  How many people realize that leading is called leading because actual lead used to be used to create it?  I love stuff like that:  expressions that were coined when the world was different.

[Andy]

Printmaking major?

[Gentleman Jim]

...and all things related to bookmaking...

My Uncle Lou was involved with all things bookmaking as well.  The IRS popped him on New Year's Day, 1992 just as he was making a fortune from all the rubes who took Florida over Notre Dame.

Oh wait... different kind of bookmaking.

[Ason]

Printmaking major?

Obviously a party school


when those printmakers go for a panty raid.....
watch out

[Sarah]

...and all things related to bookmaking...

My Uncle Lou was involved with all things bookmaking as well.  The IRS popped him on New Year's Day, 1992 just as he was making a fortune from all the rubes who took Florida over Notre Dame.

Oh wait... different kind of bookmaking.

When my pa was growing up in Woonsocket, R.I., a local bookmaker wanted to recruit him as his successor.  I think my father still sometimes wonders what might have been.