On the New York Times website Steven Heller reviews Making Faces: Metal Type in the 21st Century, a documentary film by Richard Kegler, founder of the P22 Foundry. The film features the work of the late Jim Rimmer, a prolific Canadian typeface designer, who died last year:
Rimmer had a fruitful career, producing a huge number of fonts, but for Kegler, the most exciting part of making this film was discovering Rimmer’s “unabashed joy in doing what he was meant to do,” he says. “He was multitalented, and he was able to do what he loved most in ‘retirement,’ which may have been the most prolific period of his life. He was generous with his time in way that I could never be.”
Rimmer was made a fellow of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada in 2007.
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