She sounds like someone I should have been familiar with, but her name doesn’t sound familiar. The again, I live in a bubble.
I have to say that I am surprised you were not familiar with her. Did you recognize her work and style once you saw it?
I didn’t know her either, but I recognize her work for sure! Wow. I had no idea. She was fabulous. She died fairly young - but she died living life on her terms and doing things she loved.
I recognize the style, but probably assumed it was a trendy look that just came along, not something largely attributable to one person. The only work mentioned in the video that I specifically remember is the Buffy the Vampire Slayer logo. Thanks for the video; I need to do more research on her. I vaguely remember a designer being killed in a small plane crash several years ago. Perhaps it was her.
This showed up in my email inbox this morning. All of the Porsche footage seems a little gratuitous, but, still, I’ve always admired House Industries fonts and products and own a few myself.
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The video is also at the top of their front page.
I think I’m a bit less inclined to buy fonts from House Industries after watching it. It seems like a vanity video showcasing the guy’s big ego and expensive habits.
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I agree with you, and I’ve never been impressed by vanity or ego (hence my original comment about the cars); but House makes gorgeous products, and it seems like the guy took a gamble, started the company, and really made something for himself — so I don’t mind buying their products in the future.
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I was cleaning out my email inbox this morning, clicked on the link for the video, and took a look at the YT channel that posted the video. It is actually a Porsche enthusiast channel. Based on the “Type 7 Films” name, I would have thought it was a typeface-related channel. That explains all of the car footage.
It’s also at the top of House Industries’ website, along with other Porsche information, which is just sort of weird. I would love to have a Porsche and the equivalent of his multi-million-dollar house, but I wouldn’t put it top, front, and center on my business page, whose purpose is to sell fonts to less-wealthy designers.
None of this is especially important; it just comes across as the guy being a bit full of himself, even though he might not be. I would be more impressed if he were showing off his new bicycle, a guitar collection, or talking about hiking the Appalachian Trail — something a bit more relatable to his customers.
If someone said there was a million dollars at the top and it was mine if I’d climb up and get it, I’d be like, “Nah, I’m good.”
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I wonder how much that guy gets paid. I have a hard time climbing more than four steps up a ladder, let alone a skinny, 2000-foot tower. No amount of money could coax me up that thing.
I got stuck halfway up a crane before, I just froze, and the ladder up was in stages and enclosed in a cage… yet my legs wouldn’t go any further.
I had to bring up something up to the crane driver.
That was not a fun day. Someone had to come up and get me. I was only 16.
Then my dad was fixing the shed roof one day, and asked me to climb up on top of the ladder, I couldn’t get up to the top of the ladder, and he just laughed, got me off the ladder, then ran up himself, fixed the roof standing on one leg on a ladder on a windy day.
I don’t know how people do it.
Would be scarier if there was no ground fog…
Text: “Hey, do you need this lamp sitting here in the front seat of the truck?”
Climber, “WTF”
(We hire steeple-jacks to do that kind of thing when we have high work in stupid places. And it’s not often it comes up. Crazy kind of insurance thing.)
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That isn’t ground fog, it’s low cloud. 
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