TSI: Type Scene Investigation Portland

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Forensic font geek Thomas Phinney discusses and shows some of the cases of allegedly forged documents he’s been asked to investigate, from a frontier mailbag label for The History Channel’s History Detectives, to the NFL’s Pro Football Hall of Fame for the Dallas Morning News, to the Bush presidency for The Washington Post. Learn how errors with fonts, typography and output devices have ruined what could otherwise have been perfectly good forgeries.

Thomas Phinney is senior product manager for fonts and typography at Extensis. From 1997-2008 he worked in type at Adobe, lastly as product manager for fonts and global typography. Thomas is involved in the design, technical, forensic, business and historical aspects of type, treasurer of ATypI, and writes for Communication Arts and many other
venues. He has testified in court as an expert witness, and was twice quoted in the Washington Post regarding the presumably forged memos concerning US President Bush’s National Guard service. Thomas has an MS in printing from RIT, and an MBA from UC Berkeley. His typeface Hypatia Sans is an Adobe Original.

Thursday 19th January
6:30-8:30 p.m.

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