Palmer Method returning to a more cursive style. The Palmer company stopped publishing in the 1980s. In radar engineering, a Palmer Scan is a scanning technique that produces a scanning beam by moving the main antenna and its feed in a circular motion. The name was derived from the looping circles practiced by students of the Palmer Method. Palmer Method The Palmer Method of penmanship instruction was developed and promoted by Austin Palmer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was largely created as a simplified style of the "Spencerian Method", which had been the major standardized system of handwriting
Angela Palmer the Fitzgerald Prize. She was also awarded the Thames and Hudson Prize at the Royal College of Art in London. Palmer is also the daughter-in-law of Major General Sir Joseph Michael Palmer, former Defence Services Secretary. Palmer has developed a technique in which she uses MRI and CT scans to 'map' objects by drawing or engraving details onto multiple sheets of glass to create a layered 3D image which appears to float in a glass cube. For "Brain of the Artist," 2012, (collection Scottish National Portrait Gallery), Palmer created a self-portrait using MRI scans of her brain, carried out at