Jim Rimmer
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Jim Rimmer was a Canadian graphic designer
, letterpress printer, proprietor of the Pie Tree Press and is especially notable as a designer of typefaces.
Rimmer was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. He attended Vancouver Technical School, "which gave an introduction to metal type and presses through the school's large printing trade shop." After an apprenticeship he began a long period of working with type and design for newspaper publication and printing, all in British Columbia
. Rimmer attended evening classes to study graphic design at Vancouver School of Art. "During his freelance years he worked on projects for the major agencies and design studios in Vancouver, for corporations, airlines, mining and forestry companies. A large part of his work entailed letter design and lettering projects." http://www.gdc.net/about/fellows/articles140 Along with his long career as a designer, Rimmer taught at several colleges including Capilano College
, ECIAD, Langara College
, Kwantlen College, Richmond
and UCFV, Abbotsford. For a brief time in the 1970s, Rimmer was type director of the Lanston Monotype Corporation
in Vancouver.
Rimmer was noted as the proprietor of the Pie Tree Press, located in New Westminster, a printing office for which he designed many typefaces in metal, including Albertan, Kaatskill and Stern.
The P22 Type Foundry
currently markets Rimmer's typefaces as the Rimmer Type Foundry. Over 200 digital faces, distributed among 18 families, have been made from Rimmer's designs.
In 2007, Rimmer received the honor of becoming a fellow of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada
.
Rimmer died of cancer
on January 8, 2010.
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...
, letterpress printer, proprietor of the Pie Tree Press and is especially notable as a designer of typefaces.
Rimmer was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. He attended Vancouver Technical School, "which gave an introduction to metal type and presses through the school's large printing trade shop." After an apprenticeship he began a long period of working with type and design for newspaper publication and printing, all in British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
. Rimmer attended evening classes to study graphic design at Vancouver School of Art. "During his freelance years he worked on projects for the major agencies and design studios in Vancouver, for corporations, airlines, mining and forestry companies. A large part of his work entailed letter design and lettering projects." http://www.gdc.net/about/fellows/articles140 Along with his long career as a designer, Rimmer taught at several colleges including Capilano College
Capilano College
Capilano University is an undergraduate-focused, public, coeducational, teaching-intensive university located in the District of North Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is enabled by the University Act...
, ECIAD, Langara College
Langara College
Langara College is a public degree-granting college in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada which serves approximately 20,000 students annually through its university, career, and continuing studies programs...
, Kwantlen College, Richmond
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Kwantlen Polytechnic University is a public degree-granting undergraduate polytechnic university with four campuses located in the South Fraser region of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland...
and UCFV, Abbotsford. For a brief time in the 1970s, Rimmer was type director of the Lanston Monotype Corporation
Monotype Corporation
Monotype Imaging Holdings is a Delaware corporation based in Woburn, Massachusetts and specializing in typesetting and typeface design as well as text and imaging solutions for use with consumer electronics devices. Monotype Imaging Holdings is the owner of Monotype Imaging Inc., Linotype,...
in Vancouver.
Rimmer was noted as the proprietor of the Pie Tree Press, located in New Westminster, a printing office for which he designed many typefaces in metal, including Albertan, Kaatskill and Stern.
The P22 Type Foundry
P22 type foundry
P22 type foundry is a digital type foundry from Buffalo, New York, that develops and markets typefaces for the Macintosh and Windows platforms. The name P22 has no specific significance and was used prior to the type foundry as a label for various art projects including an ambitious mail art...
currently markets Rimmer's typefaces as the Rimmer Type Foundry. Over 200 digital faces, distributed among 18 families, have been made from Rimmer's designs.
In 2007, Rimmer received the honor of becoming a fellow of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada
Society of Graphic Designers of Canada
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada is Canada's national graphic design association. It is a member-based organization of design professionals, educators, administrators, students, and associates in communications, marketing, media and design-related fields.The GDC was founded in 1956,...
.
Rimmer died of cancer
Cancer
Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
on January 8, 2010.
Books
- Rimmer, Jim, Leaves from the Pie Tree Press, Pie Tree Press, 2006. http://www.p22.com/RTF/pietree.htmlhttp://www.wlbooks.com/cgi-bin/wlb455.cgi/36722.html