{"id":29046,"date":"2011-08-19T11:40:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T18:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=29046"},"modified":"2011-08-19T01:49:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T08:49:31","slug":"eastern-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/29046","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybarnes.co.uk\/projects_typography.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/EasternBlock01.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;A typeface designed to reflect the aesthetic qualities of Soviet Union product design and manufacture. The typeface uses a unilateral x-height, cap height and faux Cyrillic to create a blocky, angular and awkward response. To allude to the dated methods of production, I produced the entire face as printing blocks.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Andy Barnes&#8217; Eastern Block typeface. Website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybarnes.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybarnes.co.uk\/projects_typography.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/EasternBlock03.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybarnes.co.uk\/projects_typography.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/EasternBlock04.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybarnes.co.uk\/projects_typography.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/EasternBlock02.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsthread.com\/viewer\/project.aspx?pj=2918&#038;p=1484\" target=\"_blank\">Arts Thread<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Eastern Block\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/29046\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;A typeface designed to reflect the aesthetic qualities of Soviet Union product design and manufacture. The typeface uses a unilateral x-height, cap height and faux Cyrillic to create a blocky, angular and awkward response. To allude to the dated methods of production, I produced the entire face as printing blocks.&#8217; Andy Barnes&#8217; Eastern Block typeface. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54,49,120],"tags":[25,121,58,122],"class_list":["post-29046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-design-history","category-education","category-typography","tag-avant-garde","tag-design","tag-graphic-design","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29046"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29052,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29046\/revisions\/29052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}