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Breakfust
‘The first commercial by Bill Melendez . . . explains why the kids look like they come from Charlie Brown’s neighborhood’
Introducing: Lucky Charms cereal, 1964.
Classic green
Kermit, from 1969.
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The Philosophy of Typography
‘A sixty-page book covering the philosophical & semiotic aspects of typography, with content based on lectures by a SCAD professor & Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style’
By Steven Acres. Details here.
Found Via Creativeoverflow
Typographic rhetoric 1
‘Almost all human reasoning about facts, decisions, opinions, beliefs, and values is no longer considered to be based on the authority of absolute Reason, but instead, is seen to be intertwined with emotional elements, historical evaluations, and pragmatic motivations. In this sense, the new rhetoric considers the persuasive discourse not as a subtle, fraudulent procedure, but as a technique of ‘reasonable’ human interaction, controlled by doubt and explicitly subject to extra logical conditions.’ -Umberto Eco, Italian Scholar and Semiotician
Here’s a great article at Mert TOL on using type to . . . manipulate and control.
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