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Bauhaus, but not in Bauhaus
Certainly Bauhaus and Avantgarde are the most common cases of LtypI (Lacking typographic Imagination aka choosing a font because of it’s name for an application of that name).
It might disappoint you vastly but the initial Bauhaus manifest 1919 and most of their printed matter in early years were set in art-nouveau flavoured seriffed faces, in the case below Ohio [...]
The Difference between Humanist, Transitional and Modern Typefaces
Some key-characters for classifying typefaces are a, e, and R.
Humanist (Serifs, Sans, Slab) a’s mostly have an open upper counter and a rather small bowl; the lower half of the e has an open, friendly »mouth«, whereas the eye in the upper half is usually small. R has a diagonal, often long, maybe swashy tail. [...]
noch mal Helvetica
Funny, while browsing some reviews of Helvetica forever I found this one on Designboom, which is featuring almost only my tiny little article on typesetting methods. Five pictures of one spread*, a boring side note in a thrilling story. Must have made an impression.
No pic of the historic essay, none of the comparisons, only one of [...]
Have I told you recently, that I love Lars Müller Publishers?
Lars Müller is back better than ever. And independent again.
Not only went my “best type book of the year” to Corporate Diversity. Advertising by Geigy, I also very much love the Celestino Piatti and Unimark book, to name but a few.
Check out their new website (and order Helvetica forever extensively! :)
read on: my report fresh from Frankfurt [...]
Who is Gando?
Anyone in need of a topic for a typeface revival?
Today in the mail: a type card by Eckehart SchumacherGebler featuring a rare Didone (together with a real one, the ”Pierre Didot“ by him and Vilbert).
The Roman and Italic was acquired by Offizin Haag-Drugulin of Leipzig in 1868 from the tradition-rich printer Tauchnitz, who winded up their in-house [...]
fresh from Frankfurt book fair I+II
It’s a good year in (design-)books.
Although I always think, it’s getting harder and harder to surprise or intrigue me, I brought back at least as many kg of books as in the past years.
Outstanding finds and developments:
In Defense of Helvetica
I just read a fitting comparison of type and food in connection with Helvetica.
To me Helvetica feels to typography a bit like Japanese white rice feels to traditional Japanese cuisine. That is, on its own it may seem pretty bland to most people. [...] Yet, as a balanced complement to all other elements in a [...]
no pics
Ever wondered why this here is so – sagen wir mal – typographic?
I just don’t get it. I do not manage to upload pictures, neither with browser- nor flashupload, not via gallery or uploads-menu. The photos are listed in the gallery, but not displayed, like this:
Ahhhh! had to shake lightly to level wp-content.
A conversation with Dan Reynolds on Bachelor & Master
Since I am working on the BA-Modulhandbücher again, I'd like to share an extensive post-exchange I had with Dan Reynolds recently. (Achtung, lang)
The tab, scroll and swipe of the book designer