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JIM RIMMER
Pie Tree Press & Type Foundry
While preparations continue for his new, fully-illustrated edition of Tom Sawyer continue, Jim Rimmer has announced he will find time to issue a retrospective of his type designs and illustrations. The book (titled Leaves from the Pie Tree) will feature extensive display settings of all his metal types, along with commentaries on their development, numerous tipped-in linocuts, and a photo-essay detailing his process for creating type matrices. The book (small folio, approxiamtely 60 pages) will be set by hand and printed by Rimmer on a variety of papers. This book promises to be a unique collection of his work, desirable to any collector interested in contemporary fine printing or typgraphy. Contact Rimmer directly for further details. Publication is planned for late 2006. (Never one to take it easy, Jim recently reported that while awaiting the photo-essay section's completion, he began "toying with the sketches for a specific typeface that I plan to cut for Robin Hood. I think I will do it following the completion of Tom Sawyer, before I go on to doing Huck Finn. The new type is something I can use as a fill-in as a change of pace while doing the typecasting for Tom.") RIMMERFESTOn November 25, 2006 Simon Fraser University will be hosting Rimmerfest: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Jim Rimmer. The evening will feature a number of speakers, including Robert Bringhurst, talking about Jim's work as a typographer and printer. SFU is also inviting all "friends of Jim" to create a broadside to mark the event: "any size, and it could include an anecdote or tribute, for example, and should include a signed colophon. We would like to have three copies of each broadside: two will be given to Jim; the third will reside in SFU's Special Collections Department, which holds Rimmer's archives. We will need all broadsides in hand by October 31." For details on the event, contact Eric Swanick, Special Collections Department, at eswanick@sfu.ca. TYPE DESIGN & CASTING Since apprenticing with a commercial printer in 1950, Jim Rimmer has established an international reputation for his digital and metal type designs, in addition to graphic design and letterpress printing. He helped Gerald Giampa (Cobblestone Press) learn the basics of Monotype casting in the 1970s, and was type director of the Lanston Monotype Co. during its time in Vancouver. In addition to numeous digital fonts, Jim has designed, engraved and cast six fonts in metal. In 2004 he completed the first engraving and casting of Carl Dair's Cartier face in metal (though he is undertaking a complete recutting this year), and is currently working on the punches for a Cree typeface.
In addition to printing numerous broadsides and books for other publishers over the past 25 years, Jim's Pie Tree Press has published limited editions of Pauline Johnson's poetry (1996) and The Christmas Carol (1998), both illustrated with his own distinctive multi-color linocuts. He is currently working on his magnum opus, a new edition of Tom Sawyer. Not only will the book feature dozens on Rimmer's linocut illustrations, but he has also designed and cut a new typeface in titling and text sizes for the books (see the HM book Duensing Titling for the display face). Rimmer is currently keying the text for later Monotype casting. The planned edition is 100 copies, cased in quarter cloth by Rimmer, to be issued in 2007. Telephone: 604.522.5321 HEAVENLY MONKEY |
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