Marcus McCallion
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Marcus McCallion is a typeface designer and graphic designer
from London
, England
. McCallion is co-founder of LOCA Records
and director of ÜNDT type foundry
, England
(from 1992). McCallion's work for ÜNDT originally began with experimental typefaces, more recently the work has moved towards designs incorporating copyleft
ideology
. Two designs that demonstrate this shift are Posse and Profiteer designed through discussion with the Libre Society
. He is married to Spanish
graphic designer and craft
s person Raquel Leis Rivera.
Graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...
from London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. McCallion is co-founder of LOCA Records
LOCA Records
Loca Records is an independent electronica and post rock record label based in Brighton, UK. All the music, artwork and videos are released under copyleft licenses and distributed physically on vinyl, CD, and cassette...
and director of ÜNDT type foundry
Type foundry
A type foundry is a company that designs or distributes typefaces. Originally, type foundries manufactured and sold metal and wood typefaces and matrices for line-casting machines like the Linotype and Monotype machines designed to be printed on letterpress printers...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
(from 1992). McCallion's work for ÜNDT originally began with experimental typefaces, more recently the work has moved towards designs incorporating copyleft
Copyleft
Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be preserved in modified versions of the work...
ideology
Ideology
An ideology is a set of ideas that constitutes one's goals, expectations, and actions. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things , as in common sense and several philosophical tendencies , or a set of ideas proposed by the dominant class of a society to...
. Two designs that demonstrate this shift are Posse and Profiteer designed through discussion with the Libre Society
Libre Society
The Libre Society is a radical artistic and cultural movement that is committed to releasing free/libre/open-source art, music and literature. The Libre Society released a manifesto, called the Libre Manifesto, as its call to action....
. He is married to Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
graphic designer and craft
Craft
A craft is a branch of a profession that requires some particular kind of skilled work. In historical sense, particularly as pertinent to the Medieval history and earlier, the term is usually applied towards people occupied in small-scale production of goods.-Development from the past until...
s person Raquel Leis Rivera.
Fontography
- MarcuSan Linotype (1997)
- Perfect Drug Fontworks (1999)
- Pleasure Fontworks (1999)
- PukkaPukkaPukka is a word of Hindi and Urdu origin, literally meaning 'cooked, ripe' and figuratively 'fully formed', 'solid', 'permanent', 'for real', 'sure'...
Fontworks (1999) - Prevail Bold Fontworks (2001)
- Pills MyfontsMyFontsMyFonts is a digital fonts distribution, location based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, selling fonts through the web site. It launched in September 1999 , and started selling fonts in March 2000....
(2003) - Punched MyfontsMyFontsMyFonts is a digital fonts distribution, location based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, selling fonts through the web site. It launched in September 1999 , and started selling fonts in March 2000....
(2003) - Puritan MyfontsMyFontsMyFonts is a digital fonts distribution, location based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, selling fonts through the web site. It launched in September 1999 , and started selling fonts in March 2000....
(2003)
External links
- http://www.myfonts.com/person/mccallion/marcus/
- http://www.locarecords.com
- http://www.eyemagazine.com/opinion.php?id=117&oid=290
- http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_04/copyleft_graphic_icons/