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999 Fonts in 60 Seconds
6 Comments | Posted by Andy Columbine on 25 Aug 11 in Animation, Books, Design, Typography
Just My Type from Pentagram on Vimeo.
Hypnotic video trailer for Pentagram’s book, Just My Type, re-released next month. It pulses through 999 fonts in a minute starting and ending with Archer, the font used for the book’s US cover. While the smooth flow and pace of the animation is nice (at least the first 30 seconds), it’s a shame it doesn’t offer us a bit more, and tell us more about the book itself. It somehow feels a bit ‘basic’.
The book itself considers typography through the usual historic figures like Gutenberg, Baskerville and Gill and considers legibility, readability, typeface choice, politics, digital type – nothing new and much like many other typography reference books. I think the theory of typography has been pretty well exhausted now, and find the culture of type, and real-world contextual studies much more worthy of exploration.
I guess this raises a completely different question to the original purpose of this post. Are we being saturated with reworks of old material? What would you prefer to see? Any thoughts?
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The Power of Punctuation?!
1 Comment | Posted by Andy Columbine on 18 Aug 11 in Advertising, Art, Copywriting, Design, Ideas, Illustration, Posters, Typography
Punctuation is not just a great friend of the copywriter and author. Designers and typographers have long valued the punctuation mark for its succinctness and beauty of form, bringing simplicity, clarity, homour and intelligence to design. This charming Print.Magazine gallery showcases a history of the question mark and exclamation mark in design through the years.
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BBC asks – Do typefaces really matter?
1 Comment | Posted by Luke Tonge on 21 Jul 10 in Typography
“To most people, typefaces are pretty insignificant. Yet to their devotees, they are the most important feature of text, giving subliminal messages that can either entice or revolt readers, says Tom de Castella.”
This is the reason I love Flickr! Randomly finding gems like this… Research photography of 18th & 19th Century tombstone typography, shot by Tom Davie in various cemeteries throughout the state of Ohio.