Jack Halten Fahnestock

Jack Halten Fahnestock (B. 1995. North Carolina, USA) is an American artist, designer, and entrepreneur currently living and working in Providence, RI. With a focus on lettering and typography he explores a variety of mediums—both physical and digital—often working on projects emphasizing accessibility, DIY construction, and remixing/sampling.

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Letterpress Printing Terms

Letterpress
788mm x 545mm

Using a brayer and wood type, I manually inked up and hand-pressed each letter, one-by-one, working my way from the edges of the paper inwards. The composition of each word, as well as the overall body of words, was completely improvised. Most of the terms featured describe processes, tools, or components that were involved in the making of this work.

Specimen poster for TINY (Today In New York), an open-source font

TINY Specimen

Paper
11" x 17"

Specimen poster for TINY (Today In New York), an open-source font. Printed with a Risograph printer using fluorescent pink ink.

Poster featuring the various weights (0–300) of TINY, an open-source font

TINY Meteoroid

Paper
17.5" x 23"

Poster featuring the various weights (0–300) of TINY, an open-source font. Signed & limited edition, printed on 67lb T vellum bristol w/ Pantone Orange 021 ink via polymer plate and a Vandercook proofing press.

Feeeels Fuzzy

Font

A font commissioned for the first issue—the “fuzzy” issue—of a magazine called Feeeels, which is run by four RISD MFA grads. The design of the typeface follows the overarching theme of the magazine by typographically representing fuzziness as a state of mind, a type of logic, and a way of rendering or resolution.

Typographic moving poster for Halloween 2019

Happy Typographic Halloween

Moving poster
420mm x 594 mm

Made specifically for Halloween 2019 the poster features 16 different ways to stretch type using cartographic projections. It's a bit of an inside joke for graphic designers as stretching type is sacrilegious.

Not Trajan™

Exhibition

A solo exhibition of a typeface design independent study. The work-in-progress is based on the lettering and stone carving of John Howard Benson, designer of the official RISD seal. The motivations driving the work are to restore the official RISD seal to a version more authentic to its author's original design, as well as to create a supplemental font family.