Typography

Style and appearance of printed matter, the art or procedure of arranging type or processing data and printing from it.

Paul Rand (1914 -1996) – Designer who led the way

On: March 24, 2023

Tagged: artist, business, colorful, creative, creativity, Design, Designer, draw, graphic, logo, man, packaging, professional, studio, Typography, work

Paul Rand, was a seminal figure in graphic design who made innovative visual identities for some of America’s major corporations and book and magazine publishers

We all have seen the designs of Paul Rand at some stage of our lives. He had a career spanning nearly seven decades. There is the seminal logo for IBM and the logo for ABC. There is the Westinghouse logo, the logo for NeXT computers. There are posters and packaging, book covers, record covers and a multitude of magazine covers.Read More →

Glyphs – Road to International Understanding

On: March 16, 2023

Tagged: symbol, Typography

Glyphs are graphical symbols that are more or less universally used. The Ancient Greeks had a word for most of today’s needs, the glyph is a Greek word meaning carving. Glyphs should carve a road to international communication by breaking down language barriers.Read More →

Adrian Frutiger (1928 – 2015) Typographer – creator of widely used fonts.

On: March 10, 2023

Tagged: Designer, graphic design, graphic designer, swiss design 🇨🇭, switzerland, Typography

Adrian Frutiger was a Swiss graphic designer and typographer. Frutiger created some of the most widely used fonts of the 20th century, and they can be seen daily in airports on street signs and in subway stations. He was the creator of many internationally known and loved fonts such as Avenir, Frutiger, Univers and Vectora.Read More →

Wolfgang Weingart – Swiss Typographer and Designer

On: March 10, 2023

Tagged: swiss design 🇨🇭, swiss designer 🇨🇭, Typography

He was dubbed “the father” of New Wave or Swiss Punk typography . LEARN MORERead More →

Claude Garamond (1510 – 1561) made the letter a living thing

On: March 7, 2023

Tagged: design history, French Design, graphic design, type, typographer, Typography

Little is known about the early life of France’s most distinguished type designer Claude Garamond, though he is mentioned as being “at work” in the printing business early in the sixteenth century, Garamond was commissioned by the French monarch, Francis I, to cut a font of Greek letter which later became known as the “Royal Greek Type.” Read More →

Jan Tschichold (1902 – 1974) – Swiss Typographer

On: February 21, 2023

Tagged: Art, Design, elegant, German 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪, graphic, graphic design, graphic designer, lettering, logo, poster, print, retro, style, swiss design 🇨🇭, swiss designer 🇨🇭, switzerland, symbol, text, type, typographic, Typography

German-born, Tschichold is one of the most outstanding and influential typographers of the 20th century, He cleared away the old typography of pre-1925 and made room for a modern, structured and regulated new typography. His work is characterised by rigorous structure, asymmetrical placement of contrasting elements, and layouts based on horizontal and vertical underlying grids.Read More →

Million Mark Note – Design Classic

On: February 20, 2023

Tagged: Design, design classic, Designer, German Design 🇩🇪, German Designers 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪, typographic, Typography

The Bauhaus was the most well-known design school of the 20th century. Herbert Bayer created notes in denominations of one million, two million, and two billion. The designs exemplify the ideology of hardline Modern Movement graphics.Read More →

Herbert Bayer (1900 – 1985) – Universal Typeface – Bauhaus Master

On: January 10, 2023

Tagged: austrian, austrian design, Austrian Designer 🇦🇹, Bauhaus, Berlin, Design, design history, German Design 🇩🇪, German Designers 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪, typographer, Typography, work

The universal typeface, 1925, was a geometric alphabet based on bar and circle and was designed by Herbert Bayer. READ MORERead More →

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Typography Glossary – Design Terms

On: September 25, 2022

Tagged: art term, Design Term, type, typeface, typefaces, Typography, word

It helps to have an appropriate language to talk about typography. The following is a glossary of some of the words and their definitions that are used to described typography.Read More →

Herbert Bayer (1900 – 1985) American multi-disciplined designer

On: August 11, 2022

Tagged: American designers 🇺🇸, American 🇺🇸, Bauhaus, Design, Paris, typographer, Typography

Herbert Bayer was one of the Bauhaus’s most influential students, teachers, and proponents. Most of Bayer’s photographs come from the decade 1928–38, when he was based in Berlin working as a commercial artist. He designed the show Road to Victory (1942), which would set the course for Steichen’s influential approach to photography.Read More →

Hermann Zapf (1918 – 2015) German Typographer and Calligrapher

On: July 19, 2022

Tagged: German Design 🇩🇪, German Designers 🇩🇪, Germany 🇩🇪, Typography

Hermann Zapf (1918 – 2015) was born and educated in Nuremberg. Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse, a calligrapher and typeface designer, was his wife. Palatino, Optima, and Zapfino are some of the typefaces he developed.Read More →

Typography Books from Amazon

On: June 19, 2022

Tagged: graphic design, Graphic Design Books, new release, New Releases, Typography, Whats NEW

Typography is one of design’s most delightful frontiers, a strange medley of timeless rituals and timely transformation in the face of technical progress, whether you’re a serious artist, a recreational type-nerd, or a casual lover of the fine letterform you will enjoy this selection of books.Read More →

Early studies for Metroblack, the first full typeface designed by Dwiggins.

William Dwiggins (1880 -1956) – Typographer and all-rounder

On: January 15, 2022

Tagged: American design 🇺🇸, American designers 🇺🇸, type, typeface, typefaces, typographer, Typography

Dwiggins was known for his “Metro” series of typefaces, the first designed specifically for newspaper headlines. He produced that in 1929 when he won the gold medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts.Read More →

Karel Teige (1900 – 1951) Czech art critic, typographic artist

On: November 28, 2021

Tagged: Czech Cubism, Czech Design 🇨🇿, Czech Designer 🇨🇿, graphic design, graphic designer, typographic, Typography

Between the wars, Teige was a prominent figure in Czech art and architecture. He was the editor of many avant-garde magazines, including Disk, Stavba, and ReD, and wrote about photography. Read More →

Aldus Manuitius (1449 – 1515) – pioneer of printing

On: November 28, 2021

Tagged: Book, design history, Italian 🇮🇹, pocket, print, printer, rome, scholar, text, Typography

The type in which this sentence is written is called “italic”. Aldus Manutius the man who invented it died almost 500 years ago and his type is still in use. Today publishing a manuscript is almost instantaneous, a new best seller can be placed on Amazon and I can buy a copy minutes later. To look at the books which came off the Venitian presses of Aldus Manutius is a strange experience.Read More →

Stanley Morison (1889-1967) – Designer of Times New Roman typeface

On: November 22, 2021

Tagged: British, British Design, British Designers 🇬🇧, graphic design, typographer, typographic, Typography

Stanley Morison, widely regarded as one of the most influential typographic designers of the twentieth century, was drawn to the subject by his passionate interest. Early on, he worked for several publishers and printing houses, including Francis Meynell’s Pelican Press and the Cloister Press. Read More →

William Dwiggins (1880-1956) – Typographer and all rounder

On: November 14, 2021

Tagged: American design 🇺🇸, American designers 🇺🇸, American 🇺🇸, book cover, typographer, Typography

Dwiggins was born in Martinsville, Ohio in 1880, he had studied East in Chicago, and then he moved to Boston. Between the years 1917-1918, he became the acting director of the Harvard University Press. He also worked for the Yale Universty Press, designing jackets, endpapers, bindings and posters.Read More →

7 Classic Design Books for your Library

On: November 8, 2021

Tagged: Typography

It’s critical to keep up with the latest apps, technology, and trends in the fast-changing world of visual communication, but it’s also critical to have a good understanding of design as a subject of study with a long history of lessons to learn. With that in mind, here are a few must-have books for any designer. The books are significant, educational, and reasonably priced.Read More →

Japanese Publication: Monthly Cosmopolitan. Cover

On: November 3, 2021

Tagged: graphic design, Japan, Japanese Design, japanese graphic design, type, Typography

Japanese Publication: Monthly Cosmopolitan. Aoyama Nozomi and Wakida Asuka (Cosmopolitan). 2015.Read More →

Vernacular Typography – Motel Signs

On: November 3, 2021

Tagged: type, typographic, Typography, vernacular typography

Motel signs are one of my favourite examples of recognisable American vernacular typography. Read More →

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