class at the cemetery

Sorry, basically no internet in the hostel! Sorry for the delays... Yesterday we went to the huge cemetery in Prague. There are three sections, German, Jewish, and Russian. They basically span so far you can get off the metro on 2 different spots. There is no way you could cover this space in one day. We basically focused on the German plot because it is the oldest and basically overgrown with English Ivy. It was so eerie because normally cemeteries feel very disconnected and bare, but this one was very lively. Instead of grave stones, we saw grave stones and small beds of green plants overcome by ivy.

Our main reason for hanging out in the cemetery was to look at the type from the 1800s and up. The type that was engraved into stone is very important to the history of type design. It was very cool to see how different each grave stone turned out to be, some had VERY old type, but some had completely modern type faces for it's time. It was really uncomfortable at first to be touching this graves to get the type rubbings, but after all of it I really got a lot out of the exercise. I think these examples will be very important to our typeface design project. I never would have thought to go explore a graveyard for type...

Check out how mod this one is! 1925... pretty impressive.