‘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.
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‘Typography is what language looks like.’ –Ellen Lupton
Great collection of typography quotes (with article), collected by Jacci Howard Bear. Go here for more.
And
Check out as8: Alessandro Segalini’s collection of quotes on typography here.
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‘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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‘It’s all in the details. Our end slug was pulled right from the logo itself, the dot on the ‘i’ to be exact. This was a small but proud moment for us. I’m sure you saw the connection right away . . . right?’
Check out this great, detailed article about the recent NYT Magazine redesign at the Society of Publication Designers Blog.
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Plus,
Here’s their All-Nighters series on insomnia, ‘a nuisance, a disease, a curse, an opportunity or even a gift.’
I just know from Twitter and Facebook that most of the United Kingdom is waking up when I’m typically designing stuff.
And this hour we lost this weekend . . . total BITCH.
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