entries Tagged as [typography]
Lord of the Logos
‘The hallmark of Szpajdel’s work is his surprisingly fluid combination of letters with visual elements from art movements such as art deco and art nouveau.’
The dark metal logo work of (Belgian forestry engineer) Christophe Szpajdel – compiled in convenient book form. Published by Die Gestalten Verlag.
Interview here. Another interview here.
Wolves in the Throne Room: A Looming Resonance
Found via Robynne Raye
‘Escape from Comic Sans’
B-movie typography eCards, designed by Will Staehle for TDC. Go here.
And check out Will Staehle’s website here.
Found via Ilene Strizver
The U&lc archive: Free as PDFs
‘Over the 26 years that it was published, U&lc gathered a following of thousands of avid readers that eagerly anticipated each issue. It became the most important typographic publication of its time.’
The 1970s looked like the 1970s because of Herb Lubalin.
And the way he did this was thru Upper & lowercase magazine. Tabloid in size, printed on newsprint, U&lc was read by most of the graphic design industry. Within, the fonts and philosophy of Lubalin’s International Typeface Corporation [ITC] stressed letters that were set ‘close, but not touching’ and . . . aw, hell, let them touch, overlap and be funky.
By the time I was in design school, the look had fallen out of favor – most ITC fonts were actually banned from use in my homework. ITC’s philosophy was to reinterpret the classics, often into something strangely unique, full of its own style – or a lack of style. Like Helvetica.
The 1970s were all about that. Taking things like Art Deco and doing something totally new with it. [Read more →]
The old Linotype office in Chicago
Entrance to the Mergenthaler Building, old printer’s row, Chicago.
Kate Nash: Nicest Thing, from the album Made of Bricks
Photo by mehallo
Linotype: The Film
‘Linotype: The Film is a documentary about Ottmar Mergenthaler’s amazing Linotype typesetting machine and the people who own and love these machines today.’
Trailer above, film now in production. More info here.
Music by Iron & Wine
Printing and wine
Been busy since I’ve gotten back from TypeCon 2010, so I’m only now slowly going thru photos.
For the TypeCon afterparty at The International Printing Museum, one of my little design touches was bottles of California Typographic Wine; which came in four varieties: Oldstyle, Transitional, Modern and Sans.
Labels were printed on a fabric stock by Hal Hammond – and helping me with the whole vin production were Lucy Schallberger, Jon Coltz, Delve Withrington and (pictured below) Angela Glenn.
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the great times new roman controversy
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defining terms: design is not decoration
garcia's 'pure design'
'enhance that image!'
magic highway remixed
the cynic
rad anthem
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Divinely Elegant: The World of Ernst Dryden
Jozsef Pecsi: Photo and Advertising
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art
Modern Dog: 20 Years of Poster Art
Gaberbocchus Press: An Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979
Advertising Art in the Art Deco Style
Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture
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