Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.- -Robert Bringhurst The Tipoteca in Cornuda, Italy, is a museum devoted to the history of letterpress printing and typefaces. A Fount of Fonts. The computer has put the word “font” into common parlance as a synonym for typeface. But ask most [...]
Architecture & Design Entropy | 04 Mar 2010
The assignment: Graphically interpret a single word. The rule: Do it in a five-inch by five-inch square. The results: A visual smorgasbord of inspiration. The Word It Book: Speak Up Presents a Gallery of Interpreted Words. Builds on the success of an online graphic-design community, where designers visually interpret different words each month and post [...]
Typography is a subtle yet powerful tool for creating a unique image. With this in mind, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs created a new typeface called Aeroportal to be the main typeface for the Norway’s official profile. Aeroportal The round, easily legible forms of the typeface Aeroportal were inspired by European modernistic and British humanistic [...]
Art &Books Entropy | 25 Oct 2009
More than just another pretty survey, lettering & Type is a powerful and essential how-to book full of relevant theory, history, explanatory diagrams, exercises, and inspiring examples of contemporary lettering and typeface design No component of graphic design has attracted as much interest or inspired as much innovation in recent years as lettering and type. [...]
This post is for my friend Michele a graphic designer, photographer and artist having multidimensional background & training in the Arts and Science. The Periodic Table of Typefaces is obviously in the style of all the thousands of over-sized Periodic Table of Elements posters hanging in schools and homes around the world. This particular table [...]
Typography is an invisible art, so Helvetica’s ubiquity makes it easy for it to disappear, while we look for meaning of the words it makes visible… Pl read & refer more