Typography

The Impact of Handmade Elements in Graphic Design Introduction Throw your Mac out! Get with the times and get hands on! Handcrafting design with handmade elements is back and is here to stay, especially in graphic design and typography. Since the economic crisis people’s interest in vintage and all things handmade has surged and is still becoming increasingly popular. Where were the first sign of handcrafted type? From days of the past we didn’t have all this technology baffling us and…

Tobias Frere-Jones is an American type designer based in New York City. He was born in 1970 to a family who had a rich history with typography. His parents worked as copywriters and print buyers, so he was always surrounded with various letterforms. Although he was enthusiastic about fine arts and photography during his early teenage years, his daily interactions with written text helped him understand the power of type and influenced him to enter Rhode Island School of Design. After receiving…

The typeface that was chosen for this mid-term assignment, was Constantia. The designer of this typeface is John Hudson who was born in Bristol, England in 1968. In 1978, Hudson’s parents moved to Canada where he still resides. In the early 1990s he began designing his own type and often received encouragement from Gerlad Giampa who was employed at Lanston Type Co. He has his own company which he co-founded in 1994 with Ross Mills called Tiro Typeworks. The company is currently based in…

change how a certain text looks. This film poster of “Buried” is about a truck driver who falls victim to a group of rebels and is stuck in a coffin with only 90 minutes of oxygen. I believe the way this film poster is made the best way to show typography. The film shows the protagonists fear of claustrophobia inside the coffin, that he was put into when he was unconscious. The designers who made the poster had a little play with the film’s story line by putting all the text around the character…

The font Clarendon IT as we know it today is the result of a redesign and reissue of a historical typeface so influential that its name came to be used for all bracketed slab serifs of its time. Back in 1840’s London, the commercial applications of printing were increasing radically as the Industrial Revolution entered its second stage of expansion. In order to benefit from this growing market, Robert Besley, who was a typographer for the Fann Street Foundry, set about finding a solution for one…

Revolution and Typography During 1770 to 1820, the impact of the Industrial Revolution, changed the way society experienced almost every aspect of daily life. A period of economic growth, manual labor was replaced with the efficiency of machinery and mass production. With profound advances in technology, the nature of type and graphic design was also considerably changed. Visual communications became more sought after and accessible than ever before. With high demands in place, typography…

an article over Adobe InDesign notes, leading is “the space between lines of type [otherwise] known as line spacing” (French, 2010). Leading can also be described as the distance between two lines in paragraphs. Leading is an important concept in typography and graphic design as it keeps text legible and organized. 12. A 100 page report should in fact be easy to read to keep reader attention and to help them find the information they are looking for. The writer for the company in question…

Wong 4 methods to Bass specifically in his film and print designs.16 This is why Bass was also influenced by the Russian Constructivist typography and Bauhaus design theory that is featured in most of his designs. Saul Bass greatly influenced film titles and corporate logo designs. One of his colleagues, Martin Scorsese described Bass’s film…

to his highly creative and individualistic work (Miltonglaser.com). At the age of thirteen, Glaser started taking life-drawing classes that subsequently led him onto studying at the high School of music and Art. Glaser went on to study painting, typography and illustration at Cooper Union Art school in hope to become a comic- strip artist, and spent two years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, Italy working under Giorgio Morandi where he first developed his interest for Italian Renaissance…

In this chapter, I will be exploring the history of Penguin and their book covers/jackets, looking at the layouts and developments of design as the years progressed. Subsequently, I will be primarily looking towards Phil Banes’ Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005, as, while it is not a comprehensive catalogue of the entirety of Penguin’s cover history, it contains the main pathways, showing the development of the brand along with their changes in design and the new series’ and prints that…