David Millhouse

Draws letterform contours as more than ‘something to read’ since 1994 on the grounds of learning free speech.₁ Works as an undertaker. Builds first website in 1999 at sixteen years of age. Reads first book Minima Moralia at twenty-four whilst raising a boy for twelve.₂ Attains M. A. in Sequential Design at Brighton University in 2006. Publishes three issues of G. from 2007, sold primarily on Savile Row, London. Launches issue three from Frankfurt am Main [Fig]. Releases first TrueType typeface in 2008 as major part of desistant studies. 2012–2016 lives in Paris. Guest speaks with students from Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Willem de Kooning Rotterdam, Portsmouth University and Southampton/Winchester School of Art on the subject of Typography on #.₃ Lives on Brussels Grand Sablon monastic site, 2016–2019. Pickpocketed of Earl Gris Vert on Paris Métro, retrieves it.₄ Studies M. A. Type Design in 2019 at Reading University whilst hearing Shostakovich’s Symphony no.5 in D.Minor, Op.47 and declares self-tuition one month before lockdown. Releases Monylop typeface in 2020, as well as Oracidae and Isospin. Opens studio in 2021.₅ Launches Diagram Editions™.₆ 2022, delivers lecture at Graphische Werkplaats Amsterdam for Letterspace entitled The Scenic Route [Fig]. This website has been built from scratch without the reliance of any corporate publishing platform. All typefaces operating and presented on this website have been formulated by David G. Millhouse and are consequentially documented from the year 2020. They remain independently distributed.₇

₁ ‘First it must be borne in mind that a fine book is more than “something to read”. The amateur looks for character in printing’. Four Centries of Fine Printing, 12, Stanley Morison 1924 (Ernest Benn Limited, London, Revised Octavo 1949).
₂ Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben / Reflections on a Damaged Life. Theodor W. Adorno, 1951 (Verso Books; (Radical Thinkers), translated by E. F. N. Jephcott, Reprint 2005).
  Read the essay entitled Family Volume. →
₃ One-to-one mentorship for BA students at Winchester School of Art. The student workshop entitled #Hash in 2013 at Rotterdam’s Willem de Kooning Academy offered students a progressive outlook from the baseline-grid in relation to societal policy and courtliness. Student production of roughly two hundred and fifty cover studies in 1½ hours after a biographic lecture for Portsmouth Universities BA Illustration students. Gerrit Rietveld Academie student visit to D. G. M. office at Bastille, Paris in 2013. 2021 Pixel Party workshop for Gerrit Rietveld Academie students of Amsterdam, in collaboration with Viola Renate.
₄ Earl Grey tea is named after Prime Minister Charles Grey. In 1833 his government abolished slavery throughout the British Empire. Prior to that, trader of enslaved people turned abolitionist rector from 1780—1807 appends Rev. John Newton of Nicolas Hawksmoor’s St. Mary’s Woolnoth, London [Fig]. →
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₇ The Typefaces are as follows — Monylop →, Sparring →, Oracidae →, Isospin →, Bombe → and Caesura.
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