Monday, 30 September 2013
Rosemary Sassoon
Further research into Rosemary Sassoon..
Did a Phd looking into best handwriting for children's legibility and understanding.
The outcome from findings she later produced Sassoon Primary typeface in 1995:
Did a Phd looking into best handwriting for children's legibility and understanding.
The outcome from findings she later produced Sassoon Primary typeface in 1995:
Sassoon Primary, available at: http://www.linotype.com/114351/SassoonPrimaryStdRegular-product.html, viewed on 30/09/2013.
Sassoon Primary, available at: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/sassoon-primary/, viewed on 30/09/2013.
Papers of all her findings found at IOE London library. have emailed for request. http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/23502.html
Computers and Typography book, edited by Rosemary Sassoon, chapter 5, also documents her findings.
Lakshmi Pratury
The Lost art of Handwriting
hand-writing is a disappearing art.
why can we have hand-writing and emailing in our lives?
hand-writing is a disappearing art.
why can we have hand-writing and emailing in our lives?
Hannah Brencher
Love Letters to Strangers.
Started writing letters and leaving them in coffee shops and other public places. Got an influx of emails in her inbox asking her for letters, from strangers.
Letterform is an artform now. shows meaning and worth to sit down and bother to write to someone. moves people, helps strangers, gives people courage and reason to live.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hannah_brencher_love_letters_to_strangers.html
Started writing letters and leaving them in coffee shops and other public places. Got an influx of emails in her inbox asking her for letters, from strangers.
Letterform is an artform now. shows meaning and worth to sit down and bother to write to someone. moves people, helps strangers, gives people courage and reason to live.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hannah_brencher_love_letters_to_strangers.html
4D printing...
4D in the sense of objects that have ability to interact with themselves and the evironment closely around them. The are reacting in time.
4D printing is taking multi material properties 3D printing and adding transformation - so the individual pieces within the product move on their own.
Items are printed with the 3D printer: proteins. that will Self Assemble:
"Self assembly is a process by which disordered parts build an ordered structure through only local interaction."
Tibbits, S. (2013) The emergence of 4D Printing, available at: http://www.ted.com/talks/skylar_tibbits_the_emergence_of_4d_printing.html, viewed on: 30/09/2013.
4D printing is taking multi material properties 3D printing and adding transformation - so the individual pieces within the product move on their own.
Items are printed with the 3D printer: proteins. that will Self Assemble:
"Self assembly is a process by which disordered parts build an ordered structure through only local interaction."
Tibbits, S. (2013) The emergence of 4D Printing, available at: http://www.ted.com/talks/skylar_tibbits_the_emergence_of_4d_printing.html, viewed on: 30/09/2013.
Saturday, 28 September 2013
Ideas of final piece
Ideas for Independent Study final piece:
Hand made work that is normal designed graphically.
greetings cards
menu's
book cover jackets
food packaging
Hand made gift items that are normally graphically designed:
greetings cards
novelty bags?
packaging?
Design my own typeface
Redesign logo's for companies that were graphically designed and now are hand designed.
Hand made work that is normal designed graphically.
greetings cards
menu's
book cover jackets
food packaging
Hand made gift items that are normally graphically designed:
greetings cards
novelty bags?
packaging?
Design my own typeface
Redesign logo's for companies that were graphically designed and now are hand designed.
Ellinor Maria Rapp - further research
Influences: Ray Larabie
Field of Work: Typographer
When was 5 years old, used to use dry transfer font letters - Lettraset.
Works very fast - produced over 1000 fonts. used to sell some for free. sells them now for very cheap (from 33 cents to 9 dollars as aposed to 30 - 70 dollars for some typefaces)
He acknowledges that he works on making fonts for display and not for body text.
"But consider this: I make mostly display fonts. I think designers buy them because they have a particular need based on whatever project they are working on. Text fonts are different. They’re an investment for a designer. " *
however he has designed a font family - Madawaska
Sometimes he uses old (70's) existing fonts as a base, rebuilds or reworks it for a fresh take on it. This is sometimes for jobs, like t-shirt designs that have to based in a era.
Usual method is to allow influence from external sources, preferes not to copy the source type if reinventing it.
Movatif is a mash up of different font types from 20th century **
* Larabie, R. (2009) Creative Characters, May 2009: Ray Larabie , available at: http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/200905.html, viewed on 28/09/2013.
** Movatif, available at: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typodermic/movatif/, viewed on 28/09/2013.
Ronna Penner
Field of Work - Hand lettering, Typography, Penmanship
Came from a background of loving good penmanship.
Greeting card concept designer, mainly ideas based but included some considerations to hand lettering.
Greeting card typography has to express personality of the type in relation to the meaning:
"Interesting lettering is definitely a part of greeting card design. It has to evoke some kind of emotion on the part of the buyer: happiness, a sense of playfulness, etc, and to ultimately communicate what the buyer wants to express"
Had to search for suitable fonts, often making her own if not find them.
Design script fonts now. Mainly for the use of titles or descriptions in scrapbookers works.
Cookie Nookie:
Penner, R (2008) Creative Characters, March 2008: Ronna Penner, available at: http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/200803.html, viewed on 28/09/2013.
Field of Work: Typographer
When was 5 years old, used to use dry transfer font letters - Lettraset.
Works very fast - produced over 1000 fonts. used to sell some for free. sells them now for very cheap (from 33 cents to 9 dollars as aposed to 30 - 70 dollars for some typefaces)
He acknowledges that he works on making fonts for display and not for body text.
"But consider this: I make mostly display fonts. I think designers buy them because they have a particular need based on whatever project they are working on. Text fonts are different. They’re an investment for a designer. " *
however he has designed a font family - Madawaska
Treats display type designs as art equipment for designer:
"And most people buy a display font for a specific use." *
Sometimes he uses old (70's) existing fonts as a base, rebuilds or reworks it for a fresh take on it. This is sometimes for jobs, like t-shirt designs that have to based in a era.
Usual method is to allow influence from external sources, preferes not to copy the source type if reinventing it.
Movatif is a mash up of different font types from 20th century **
* Larabie, R. (2009) Creative Characters, May 2009: Ray Larabie , available at: http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/200905.html, viewed on 28/09/2013.
** Movatif, available at: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typodermic/movatif/, viewed on 28/09/2013.
Ronna Penner
Field of Work - Hand lettering, Typography, Penmanship
Came from a background of loving good penmanship.
Greeting card concept designer, mainly ideas based but included some considerations to hand lettering.
Greeting card typography has to express personality of the type in relation to the meaning:
"Interesting lettering is definitely a part of greeting card design. It has to evoke some kind of emotion on the part of the buyer: happiness, a sense of playfulness, etc, and to ultimately communicate what the buyer wants to express"
Had to search for suitable fonts, often making her own if not find them.
Design script fonts now. Mainly for the use of titles or descriptions in scrapbookers works.
Cookie Nookie:
CookieNookie, available at: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/typadelic/cookie-nookie/, viewed on 28/09/2013.
Penner, R (2008) Creative Characters, March 2008: Ronna Penner, available at: http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/200803.html, viewed on 28/09/2013.
Monday, 23 September 2013
Typography Sketchbook - few more likes
Tom schamp
Leanne shapton
Hellier, S. Talarico, L. (2011) Typography Sketchbook, Thames and Hudson, London.
Rough pages of sketches for his own references or future projects or fun
Final pieces
Leanne shapton
"Most of them(sketches) are cut off mid word...I like language to be a peripheral yet strong presence in images"
Paul Shaw
"I often recorded letters that showed ingenious or unusual solutions to problems such as ligatures or squashes"
Sumner Stone
"Sometimes the hand seems to know things that are not conscious, and the act of drawing allows these to emerge"
Hellier, S. Talarico, L. (2011) Typography Sketchbook, Thames and Hudson, London.
Artist's looked into 6
Debi Sementell
Field of Work: Calligraphy, typographer, hand letterer.
Interview with Minted.
Started by doing calligraphy, in school enjoyed the penmanship of writting in calligraphy, later did small commissions to earn some money for calligraphy pieces.
On her own style, she reflects:
" I’m not really traditional so I guess “whimsical” would be a good word. I like to play with letters and see what I can do with them that is unique. I also like to combine different styles and sizes of letters. Maybe “eclectic” might be a good fit as well."
Wanted to develop her calligraphy style into a typeface, as the commissions she did were often for wedding invitations and found the brides were aware of the costs of hand making them all and also couldnt make the calligraphy go always as they wanted.
On her approach to creating a typeface/lettering. After starting with thinking about who its aimed at and what its for:
"That leads to thinking about what I want it to “feel” like. For Belluccia, I wanted to create something that closely mimicked my personal lettering style, which is more on the whimsical side. "
Got together with Brian Bonislawsky (lead there from both Laura Worthington and Stuart Sandlar independently!) formed a partnership - Correspondence Ink Font Foundary, and the typeface Belluccia.
Process:
*Starts with thinking about who making for, what its being made for.
*That leads to thinking about the feel of the type.
*Merges two personalities in DomMary type, her aunt and uncle and their "meant for each other" relationship.
*Makes a page of letters, playing around. If theres one she likes she will then make more letters with that same feel.
*Then writes out pages with those letters, to get a feel of their lower and upper case forms.
*The final choices get scanned in and enhanced or edited in Photoshop.
*Brian edits them in FontLab giving them a digital form.
Sementelli, D. (2012) Minted: Interview with Type Designer Debi Sementelli, available at: http://www.minted.com/julep/2012/11/23/interview-with-type-designer-debi-sementelli/, viewed on 23/09/2013.
Belluccia:
Walker, S. (2012) One Minute with: Simon Walker, Available at: http://oneminutewith.com/simon-walker, viewed on 23/09/2013.
Gemma Correll
Field of Work: Illustrator, hand letterer, cartoonist, writer, gift cards and wrap.
Interview on her website
worked with Hallmark, New York Times, The Observer, Emirates United Open Skies magazine, etc.
Which pens she uses:
-->>"PITT artist pens, Uniball Eye and UniPin fineliners, Kuretake ZIG Art & graphics Twin. For colouring, I use watercolour, ink, Kuretake brush markers and Kuretake Clean Colour brush pens. For murals, I like Posca paint pens, or Kuretake “Paintys”."<<--
Correll, G (2013) FAQ, available at: http://www.gemmacorrell.com/about-me-faqs/, viewed on 23/09/2013.
Field of Work: Calligraphy, typographer, hand letterer.
Interview with Minted.
Started by doing calligraphy, in school enjoyed the penmanship of writting in calligraphy, later did small commissions to earn some money for calligraphy pieces.
On her own style, she reflects:
" I’m not really traditional so I guess “whimsical” would be a good word. I like to play with letters and see what I can do with them that is unique. I also like to combine different styles and sizes of letters. Maybe “eclectic” might be a good fit as well."
Wanted to develop her calligraphy style into a typeface, as the commissions she did were often for wedding invitations and found the brides were aware of the costs of hand making them all and also couldnt make the calligraphy go always as they wanted.
On her approach to creating a typeface/lettering. After starting with thinking about who its aimed at and what its for:
"That leads to thinking about what I want it to “feel” like. For Belluccia, I wanted to create something that closely mimicked my personal lettering style, which is more on the whimsical side. "
Got together with Brian Bonislawsky (lead there from both Laura Worthington and Stuart Sandlar independently!) formed a partnership - Correspondence Ink Font Foundary, and the typeface Belluccia.
Process:
*Starts with thinking about who making for, what its being made for.
*That leads to thinking about the feel of the type.
*Merges two personalities in DomMary type, her aunt and uncle and their "meant for each other" relationship.
*Makes a page of letters, playing around. If theres one she likes she will then make more letters with that same feel.
*Then writes out pages with those letters, to get a feel of their lower and upper case forms.
*The final choices get scanned in and enhanced or edited in Photoshop.
*Brian edits them in FontLab giving them a digital form.
Sementelli, D. (2012) Minted: Interview with Type Designer Debi Sementelli, available at: http://www.minted.com/julep/2012/11/23/interview-with-type-designer-debi-sementelli/, viewed on 23/09/2013.
Belluccia:
Dom Loves Mary:
Simon Walker
Field of Work: Hand Lettering, Typogrpahy
Interview with One Minute With:
Designed hand letters that were highly influenced by 80's hip hop and grafitti scene in his youth.
On Simon reflecting on his journey leading from hand lettering in typeface design:
"for me, my love of custom type flowed naturally into a desire to try my hand at font design. I’d be working on a logo with custom type and somebody would say “You should turn that into a font”."
Field of Work: Illustrator, hand letterer, cartoonist, writer, gift cards and wrap.
Interview on her website
worked with Hallmark, New York Times, The Observer, Emirates United Open Skies magazine, etc.
Which pens she uses:
-->>"PITT artist pens, Uniball Eye and UniPin fineliners, Kuretake ZIG Art & graphics Twin. For colouring, I use watercolour, ink, Kuretake brush markers and Kuretake Clean Colour brush pens. For murals, I like Posca paint pens, or Kuretake “Paintys”."<<--
Correll, G (2013) FAQ, available at: http://www.gemmacorrell.com/about-me-faqs/, viewed on 23/09/2013.
Frankinstein's Typography Lab
Realisee Par - animator
Richard Louvet - typographer
Awesome example of hand lettering mixed with typography in the medium of film.
25 students were given two letters to transform from one to the other.
Each letter is given in an existing typeface and stated on the film, the student must design the transition to the theme of Frankinstein.
http://www.sochafactory.com/en/frankenstein-s-typographic-lab/
Richard Louvet - typographer
Awesome example of hand lettering mixed with typography in the medium of film.
25 students were given two letters to transform from one to the other.
Each letter is given in an existing typeface and stated on the film, the student must design the transition to the theme of Frankinstein.
http://www.sochafactory.com/en/frankenstein-s-typographic-lab/
Researching artists: Erik Spiekermann
Talking Germany with Erik
Field of Work: Typographer, Typomanic, Information Manic.
Information architect Manic: we design things that people need and we put it together.
Berlin object
Printing machine when he was 12, began interest then in typography.
As an adult realised the sensual association with letter.
typography is a major contribution to civilsation. by definition it is something that isnt supposed to be known who did it.
"you dont know the baker who bakes your bread, you just buy it. You dont know the farmer who cuts the wheat for it, you just buy the stuff."
revamping of the economist magazine, very successful.
cleaning things up with the articles, making the reader know what to expect from the articles, helps the reader orientate themselves so they know how long they have to read an article and find that one,
lowercase "a" is his favourite letter, its the first one and its pretty. looks like a person walking around with a beer belly!
least favourite is a lowercase "i" as it looks like a line that merges with an L.
German rubbish bins have such great design that they are imported about.
German road signs are abit all over the place, so many of them, over detailed.pedestrians dont know them.
loves bikes - function and design all in one.
-->Designed 20 familys of typefaces. Might have 24 types within a family.<---
"Public communication was more beautiful and transparent that would really help people alot"
Spiekermann, E. (2011) Talking Germany: Peter Craven, available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00aOwJOWSk, viewed on 23/09/2013.
Field of Work: Typographer, Typomanic, Information Manic.
Information architect Manic: we design things that people need and we put it together.
Berlin object
Printing machine when he was 12, began interest then in typography.
As an adult realised the sensual association with letter.
typography is a major contribution to civilsation. by definition it is something that isnt supposed to be known who did it.
"you dont know the baker who bakes your bread, you just buy it. You dont know the farmer who cuts the wheat for it, you just buy the stuff."
revamping of the economist magazine, very successful.
cleaning things up with the articles, making the reader know what to expect from the articles, helps the reader orientate themselves so they know how long they have to read an article and find that one,
lowercase "a" is his favourite letter, its the first one and its pretty. looks like a person walking around with a beer belly!
least favourite is a lowercase "i" as it looks like a line that merges with an L.
German rubbish bins have such great design that they are imported about.
German road signs are abit all over the place, so many of them, over detailed.pedestrians dont know them.
loves bikes - function and design all in one.
-->Designed 20 familys of typefaces. Might have 24 types within a family.<---
"Public communication was more beautiful and transparent that would really help people alot"
Spiekermann, E. (2011) Talking Germany: Peter Craven, available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00aOwJOWSk, viewed on 23/09/2013.
Researching artists: Laura Worthington
Field of Work: Typographer, Hand Letterer.
Influenced from the get go, a school teacher taught her penmanship in chancery hand rather than round hand.
Laura reflects on the difference of working with desgning at typeface and designing hand lettering, in terms of her approach and techniques:
"Designing type is a more scientific venture. All letters must work together in a virtually infinite number of combinations."
Worthington, L. About me, available at: http://lauraworthingtontype.com/about-me/, viewed on 23/09/2013
Lettering:
Typefaces:
Influenced from the get go, a school teacher taught her penmanship in chancery hand rather than round hand.
Laura reflects on the difference of working with desgning at typeface and designing hand lettering, in terms of her approach and techniques:
"Designing type is a more scientific venture. All letters must work together in a virtually infinite number of combinations."
Worthington, L. About me, available at: http://lauraworthingtontype.com/about-me/, viewed on 23/09/2013
Lettering:
Worthington, L. Laura Worthington's Lettering, available at: http://lauraworthingtontype.com/lettering/, viewed on 23/09/2013.
Typefaces:
Worthington, L. Laura Worthington's Typography, available at: http://lauraworthingtontype.com/type/, viewed on 23/09/2013.
Sunday, 22 September 2013
Letter form - methods for making letters
Letraset
Is the art of using pre-printed transfers, or dry transfers, of typefaces. Sheets that could be bought and used for making up posters or book covers and on LP's or in magazines.
Production was high between the 60's and 80's but has since ceased in the UK.
Process:
shade over the top of the transfer with a burnisher pen, lightly, on to a flat smooth surface.
Or apply by loosening the letter from the transfer with the transfer sheet held in the air, until the letter turns grey, then press the transfer onto the paper and rub over with fingers to stick. (pre release method)
Chancery based lettering
1.began in the 13th century, in the Lateran chancelry (office within roman catholic church)
moved to france then got to england in 1350.
2.also a typeface invented by Niccolo Nicolli in the Vatacan in 1450, which we now recognise as italics.
english chancery hand came about in medieval age, used by royalty and dignitaries.
In Italy in 1500's it was developed into an italic by Aldus Manutius in Venice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancery_hand
Cursive round hand
Mid 17th Century France saw the introduction of 3 hand writting styles to be used in offical documents, after submitted letters and such were deemed unreadable in people's own natural hand writing. These three were called Rhonde, Coulee and Speed Hand.
In England it was developed by John Ayres and William Banson from Rhonde into what became known as round hand.
Later in the 17th and 18th century the popularity of Round Hand grew and it spread around Europe and to America. From this form it was developed into Snell Roundhand and Kuenstler Script.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_hand
Is the art of using pre-printed transfers, or dry transfers, of typefaces. Sheets that could be bought and used for making up posters or book covers and on LP's or in magazines.
Production was high between the 60's and 80's but has since ceased in the UK.
Process:
shade over the top of the transfer with a burnisher pen, lightly, on to a flat smooth surface.
Or apply by loosening the letter from the transfer with the transfer sheet held in the air, until the letter turns grey, then press the transfer onto the paper and rub over with fingers to stick. (pre release method)
Chancery based lettering
1.began in the 13th century, in the Lateran chancelry (office within roman catholic church)
moved to france then got to england in 1350.
2.also a typeface invented by Niccolo Nicolli in the Vatacan in 1450, which we now recognise as italics.
english chancery hand came about in medieval age, used by royalty and dignitaries.
In Italy in 1500's it was developed into an italic by Aldus Manutius in Venice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancery_hand
Cursive round hand
Mid 17th Century France saw the introduction of 3 hand writting styles to be used in offical documents, after submitted letters and such were deemed unreadable in people's own natural hand writing. These three were called Rhonde, Coulee and Speed Hand.
In England it was developed by John Ayres and William Banson from Rhonde into what became known as round hand.
Later in the 17th and 18th century the popularity of Round Hand grew and it spread around Europe and to America. From this form it was developed into Snell Roundhand and Kuenstler Script.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_hand
Kuenstler Script, available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kuenstler.svg, viewed on 23/09/2013.
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Check out...
Debi Sementelli
Field of work: Hand Lettering TURNED Typographer
- http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/rs/201309/links/person/Debi_Sementelli/
Laura Worthington
Field of Work: Typographer (script types)
-http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/rs/201309/links/foundry/Laura_Worthington/
Field of work: Hand Lettering TURNED Typographer
- http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/rs/201309/links/person/Debi_Sementelli/
Laura Worthington
Field of Work: Typographer (script types)
-http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/rs/201309/links/foundry/Laura_Worthington/
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Artists I've looked into 5
http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/200712.html
Ellinor Maria Rapp
Field of Work: Typography
Owns and submits work onto Font Garden, for selling her typeface designs and customer submitted hand writing inspired typefaces.
Very interesting typographer as she actually combines Hand Lettering and Typography - by scanning in real peoples hand writing and altering them into a typeface.
"Then after I had digitized all possible variants of my own boring handwriting, I started to make fonts of other people’s handwriting."
Rapp, E. M. (2006) My Fonts: Creative Characters: Ellinor Maria Rapp, available at: http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/200712.html, viewed on 18/09/2013
--->>Inspiration: Ray Larabie, Foundary - Ronna Penner<<---
Most typefaces she designs are incomplete familys, sometimes this is because of the samples of handwriting she receives from customers are just reciepts and therefore incomplete enough to add in special fonts of diacritics. closest to a complete family are Norah and Jacky.
She likes to work fast and gets impatient to fully make a font family also, or just wants to put that font out there already onto the Font Garden.
Nadja typeface:
Xavier Dupre
Field of Work: Typography
Trained in both Typography and Calligraphy. Used to work solely on computer designing typefaces, now works on paper and uses ink or paints.
Designed a slab serif by looking at old film poster title as a template, altered some of the geometricness of the shapes and also formed a bold typeface of it, was in italics the first making. This one was Mislab.
--->>Influences: (early) José Mendoza, (later) Hermann Zapf, Robert Slimbac, Eric Gill..etc <<---
http://ilovetypography.com/2013/09/13/interview-xavier-dupre/
Ellinor Maria Rapp
Field of Work: Typography
Owns and submits work onto Font Garden, for selling her typeface designs and customer submitted hand writing inspired typefaces.
Very interesting typographer as she actually combines Hand Lettering and Typography - by scanning in real peoples hand writing and altering them into a typeface.
"Then after I had digitized all possible variants of my own boring handwriting, I started to make fonts of other people’s handwriting."
Rapp, E. M. (2006) My Fonts: Creative Characters: Ellinor Maria Rapp, available at: http://www.myfonts.com/newsletters/cc/200712.html, viewed on 18/09/2013
--->>Inspiration: Ray Larabie, Foundary - Ronna Penner<<---
Most typefaces she designs are incomplete familys, sometimes this is because of the samples of handwriting she receives from customers are just reciepts and therefore incomplete enough to add in special fonts of diacritics. closest to a complete family are Norah and Jacky.
She likes to work fast and gets impatient to fully make a font family also, or just wants to put that font out there already onto the Font Garden.
Nadja typeface:
Rebecca Typeface
Typefaces found at: http://www.myfonts.com/person/Ellinor_Maria_Rapp/
Xavier Dupre
Field of Work: Typography
Trained in both Typography and Calligraphy. Used to work solely on computer designing typefaces, now works on paper and uses ink or paints.
Designed a slab serif by looking at old film poster title as a template, altered some of the geometricness of the shapes and also formed a bold typeface of it, was in italics the first making. This one was Mislab.
Dupre, X. (2013) ILoveTypography: Interview with Xavier Dupre, available at: http://ilovetypography.com/2013/09/13/interview-xavier-dupre/, viewed on 19/09/2013.
Stating that he normal starts on the roman typeface in the family, either way he starts in this way:
" I initially draw some lower-case a-e-i-l-n-o-d, then the others and always v-w-y-z then x finally. The diagonal lowercase are less interesting in my eyes because they don’t have curves. Then I work on the uppercase, the numerals and all the signs required of a font"
Dupre, X. (2013) ILoveTypography: Interview with Xavier Dupre, available at: http://ilovetypography.com/2013/09/13/interview-xavier-dupre/, viewed on 19/09/2013.
http://ilovetypography.com/2013/09/13/interview-xavier-dupre/
Monday, 16 September 2013
Typeface or Lettering awards
Letter2 Typeface Awards: http://letter2.org/
Jovica Veljovic
Field of Work: Typographyer
Serbian, Taught typography, designed typefaces for Adobe, ITC and Linotype.
Won Letter2 award for his typeface - Veljovic Script
Type Directors Club Awards: http://www.n8w.com/wp/251
Nate Williams
Field of Work: Hand Lettering
"I really like how type can make you interpret text in a certain way, it's kinda like the music in a movie, it really defines how you will perceive some things"
--->>Letter playground - http://www.letterplayground.com/letters.php?letter=2&sort=most_favorites<<---
Williams, N. The Society of Illustrators: Nate Williams, available at: http://www.societyillustrators.org/Video.aspx?Name=soi_natewilliams.flv&Width=512&Height=288&Title=%20Nate%20Williams&Subtitle=%20Art%20Directors%20and%20Illustration%20Mundo, viewed on 17/09/2013.
Williams, N (2013) Type Directors Club Award, available at: http://www.n8w.com/wp/251, viewed on 17/09/2013.
Jovica Veljovic
Field of Work: Typographyer
Serbian, Taught typography, designed typefaces for Adobe, ITC and Linotype.
Won Letter2 award for his typeface - Veljovic Script
Letter2, Vejovic Script, available at: http://letter2.org/winner/veljovic-script/, viewed on 17/09/2013.
Type Directors Club Awards: http://www.n8w.com/wp/251
Nate Williams
Field of Work: Hand Lettering
"I really like how type can make you interpret text in a certain way, it's kinda like the music in a movie, it really defines how you will perceive some things"
--->>Letter playground - http://www.letterplayground.com/letters.php?letter=2&sort=most_favorites<<---
Williams, N. The Society of Illustrators: Nate Williams, available at: http://www.societyillustrators.org/Video.aspx?Name=soi_natewilliams.flv&Width=512&Height=288&Title=%20Nate%20Williams&Subtitle=%20Art%20Directors%20and%20Illustration%20Mundo, viewed on 17/09/2013.
Williams, N (2013) Type Directors Club Award, available at: http://www.n8w.com/wp/251, viewed on 17/09/2013.
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
Researching artists: Andrew Byrom - If h is a chair. TED Talks
cool concepts made physical. takes "seeing type everywhere" to new level :)
allowing ideas and final pieces to evolve, as let others into collobrate, or viewers comments.
Designed typefaces based on:
*Window blinds malfunction gathering
*Seating and benches unit
*Hand rails in a disabled toilet
*Chair frame (became Intererior typeface.) which became:
*Neon Lights
*Canvas tent frame. which became:
*Kite 3d frames
Made typefaces even without a client or brief. Then got the approriate company involved after produced items existed for promotion.
Researched the constraints of the theme - in this way could legitimately form a whole workable alphabet.
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Artists i've looked into 4
Josh Owen
Field of Work: Illustrator and Typography and Lettering
Josh states that his company Ursus is about
"Ursus Illustration evolved from a life-long obsession with animals, fine line illustration, tattoos, tree climbing and calligraphy."
Owen, J (2013) About Us, available at: http://ursusillustration.com/sample-page/, viewed on 10/09/2013.
Designed Animal Alphabets.
"After a few such requests I began pondering the whole thing from a professional perspective. It was typography, after all, no matter how unusual the method or medium. A very personal kind of typography, too. The messages being typeset were commemorating friends, family, births, deaths, loves, principles, and things that influenced people in a deep and direct way, so much so that they chose to etch that influence on their bodies and wear it forever."
Field of Work: Illustrator and Typography and Lettering
Josh states that his company Ursus is about
"Ursus Illustration evolved from a life-long obsession with animals, fine line illustration, tattoos, tree climbing and calligraphy."
Owen, J (2013) About Us, available at: http://ursusillustration.com/sample-page/, viewed on 10/09/2013.
Designed Animal Alphabets.
The B is particularly cute - its got alot of charm, as they all have, in the juxtaposition of creature and human activity.
Available for purchase as A4 or A3 individual sheets here: http://ursusillustration.com/category/prints/
tumbler http://myfonts.tumblr.com/
Ale Paul
Field of work: Typographer
Worked as art director for big corporate brands, including Danone and and SC Johnson.
Spoken at big graphic design events, including TypeCon.
He designed many typefaces, inluding: Burgues Script, Adios Script, Poem Script, Hipster script, and Piel Script - won awards for them all, the Piel Script he won Letter2 award (was in top 53 typeface designs of the decade)
Teaches Typography programme, used to teach graphic design.
Burgues Script:
Inspired by craftmanship gone into calligraphy penmanship, in particular Louis Madarasz.
Moved and awed by the great skills his hands put into the designs, aware of the limitiations of digital typeface design based on calligraphy lettering.
Greatly respects and reveres his hand skills and the different approach and the skills of hand lettering:
"I can only imagine what steady nerves and discipline Madarasz must have had to be able to produce fully flourished and sublimely connected words and sentences on a whim."
and on the digital age and the merits of graphic design and typography:
"One of the wonders of the computer age is the ability to visually conjure up the past, serving both the present and the future."
Paul, A (2006) Burgues Script, available at:http://www.sudtipos.com/fonts/97, viewed on: 16/09/2013.
Paul, A (2006) Sudtipos: Burgues Script, Available at: http://www.sudtipos.com/fonts/97, Viewed on 16/09/2013.
Piel Script:
The exciting paradox about this typeface is that he was inspired to create a typeface for use as a tattoo lettering after seeing a gap in the market and being asked by people to rework Burgeus for tattoo writings.
After looking into the world of Tattoos he discovered that while some exceptional tattoo artists design their own lettering, the majority use stock typefaces. Also he found that the nature of tattoo lettering was extremely personal:
So he formed a typeface called Piel Script that was notably influenced by burgeus, Adios and in some levels Affair.
This digital representation was a typeface that resembled beautiful script lettering suited to ornate writing specifically for tattoos. What i love is that the initial premise was to design a typeface that was inspired by and suitable for tattoos (hand lettering form) which he formed into a typeface digitally (typography) and will now be translated and used by tattoo artists for tattoos (hand lettering) the full circle.
Monday, 9 September 2013
Artists looking in to 3
More Artists to look into. Recommendations from article "The Myth of Hand-Lettered Typography - Understanding The Difference Between Type And Lettering" by Joseph Alessio, of hand letterers that have contributed lots through their designs apparantly :) checking now...
Claire Coullon
Field of Work: Graphic Design, Typography, Hand Lettering.
Co runs her own design company called Op45. Designs logos, Hand Lettering and branding. also interested in printed materials.
She is very interested in the concepts of language and understanding and written word, and how they intertwine and the depths of this:
"One of my main ongoing interests is considering the visual aspect of words and language — its relation to the content, nuances of speech and meaning, impact on communication, perception by different people and cultures"
Coullon, C. (2013) Claire Coullon Design and Typography: About, Available at: http://coullon.com/about.html, viewed on: 09/09/2013)
--->>Uses: pilot lettering pen and rotring art pen <<--
Don Cassaro
Field of Work: Typographer, Hand Lettering, Logo Design, speaker.
Has own company/studio The Studio of Dan Cassaro.
love rock and roll.
http://vimeo.com/34265345
Jon Contino
Field of Work: Illustrator and graphic designer
big corporations such as coco cola, new balance and many others, also AIGA and H&M and food organisations and a University.
lots of design awards in america.
skateboards, clothing, posters, promotional banners.
blurs boundaries between artistic unique hands on approach, and slick digital technological approach.
--->>his inspirations: Grotesk (Kimou Meyer), Ray Fenwick, Ken Barber, Ale Paul (black signs), Erik Manovich (calligraphy curvey), Serge Lowrider (t shirts, pop culture), Gemma o'brien(pen tattoo)<<---
-->>Jon interview http://www.gomediazine.com/insights/episode-15-the-final-days-before-wmc-fest-4-and-an-interview-with-jon-contino/<<<--
Be looking at what others are doing, build on it, build on each other. pushing the industry forward.
Simon Walker
Field of Work: Hand Lettering
Notes from interview:
works at GSD&M (ad agency in Texas) and freelances in spare time.
now at level of recognition where people come to ask him to work for them.
his style is distinctive: black and white, bold, pressed ink appearance, influences appear to be 20's to 40's advertising signs.
How did he get into hand lettering?
Began from childhood seeping of hiphop influences and graffiti scene. Always into drawing but really was graffiti that thrust him into hand lettering world:
" I quickly caught onto the graffiti phenomenon and the idea that letterforms were organic and malleable and could be works of art in and of themselves." *
"Becoming involved in online communities such as dribbble and flickr opened up my world to a lot of other designers who were doing the same thing, and I freely admit to being wildly inspired by what I've seen online over the years" *
-->>unusual inspirations<<--
"But I have been watching tons of old movies lately, and there's a wealth of stuff to be found there - not just in the titles, but in scenes within the movie (street scenes, product shots)." *
"One of the best ways to become acquainted with letters and how they truly work is to try and re-create them yourself." **
This will help teach you about the forms and shapes nuances. Think about How simular letters relate to each other. What are the set up rules that you can bend.
*Patterson, J. (2011) Designer Interview: Hand-Letterer Simon Walker (Part I), available at: http://design.org/blog/designer-interview-hand-letterer-simon-walker-part-i, viewed on: 10/09/2013.
**Patterson, J. (2011) Designer Interview: Hand-Letterer Simon Walker (Part II), available at: http://design.org/blog/designer-interview-hand-letterer-simon-walker-part-ii, viewed on: 10/09/2013.
website: http://simonwalkertype.com/
Claire Coullon
Field of Work: Graphic Design, Typography, Hand Lettering.
Co runs her own design company called Op45. Designs logos, Hand Lettering and branding. also interested in printed materials.
She is very interested in the concepts of language and understanding and written word, and how they intertwine and the depths of this:
"One of my main ongoing interests is considering the visual aspect of words and language — its relation to the content, nuances of speech and meaning, impact on communication, perception by different people and cultures"
Coullon, C. (2013) Claire Coullon Design and Typography: About, Available at: http://coullon.com/about.html, viewed on: 09/09/2013)
--->>Uses: pilot lettering pen and rotring art pen <<--
Don Cassaro
Field of Work: Typographer, Hand Lettering, Logo Design, speaker.
Has own company/studio The Studio of Dan Cassaro.
love rock and roll.
http://vimeo.com/34265345
Jon Contino
Field of Work: Illustrator and graphic designer
big corporations such as coco cola, new balance and many others, also AIGA and H&M and food organisations and a University.
lots of design awards in america.
skateboards, clothing, posters, promotional banners.
blurs boundaries between artistic unique hands on approach, and slick digital technological approach.
--->>his inspirations: Grotesk (Kimou Meyer), Ray Fenwick, Ken Barber, Ale Paul (black signs), Erik Manovich (calligraphy curvey), Serge Lowrider (t shirts, pop culture), Gemma o'brien(pen tattoo)<<---
-->>Jon interview http://www.gomediazine.com/insights/episode-15-the-final-days-before-wmc-fest-4-and-an-interview-with-jon-contino/<<<--
My notes on talk "Hangout with Jon Contino"
Madray, D (2013) Vue :20
Hangout with Jon Contino, available at: http://vue.hunie.co/hangouts/jon-contino/,
viewed on 10/09/2013.
Contino process
50% research, whatever he does. He loves it.
Get to be a historian, find out why and how and who was doing it. Always put a lot effort into researching. Good
chunk.
After learned from research, he has new skills and ideas and
ways of going about it.
Sketching stuff out, inking, then computer stuff.
Immersed in it, it flows naturally, after the research. The process
is much easier and much less headache.
Researching out makes a job more unique to the client.
Difuse different
styles:
Love late 1800’s early 1900’s – details, inconsistancies,
details that make unique and special looking
Soul bass, Swiss design – love clean, and modern and clever.
Putting them together makes a unique perspective.
You can dip in and out of different eras and styles - “Its a
lot of fun to be able to utilise all that as part of your skill set”
Whats your favourite
font?
Typography mad for years. Then let get self into hand
lettering and not looked back. Then forgot about typography so much!
Bodoni – really condensed, fat as can be. Or late 1800’s, hand-made stuff more so.
-->>Factories
used to make hand made designs for their logos <<--
Best advice for contemporary designers-
Your own style can feel watered down as once it’s out there,
there are others who are trying it or exploring it. Try new stuff. Got a lot better when used art and design to
please himself rather than pleasing others. Full attention, flesh it out. it starts with you.
Be looking at what others are doing, build on it, build on each other. pushing the industry forward.
Simon Walker
Field of Work: Hand Lettering
Notes from interview:
works at GSD&M (ad agency in Texas) and freelances in spare time.
now at level of recognition where people come to ask him to work for them.
his style is distinctive: black and white, bold, pressed ink appearance, influences appear to be 20's to 40's advertising signs.
How did he get into hand lettering?
Began from childhood seeping of hiphop influences and graffiti scene. Always into drawing but really was graffiti that thrust him into hand lettering world:
" I quickly caught onto the graffiti phenomenon and the idea that letterforms were organic and malleable and could be works of art in and of themselves." *
"Becoming involved in online communities such as dribbble and flickr opened up my world to a lot of other designers who were doing the same thing, and I freely admit to being wildly inspired by what I've seen online over the years" *
-->>unusual inspirations<<--
"But I have been watching tons of old movies lately, and there's a wealth of stuff to be found there - not just in the titles, but in scenes within the movie (street scenes, product shots)." *
"One of the best ways to become acquainted with letters and how they truly work is to try and re-create them yourself." **
This will help teach you about the forms and shapes nuances. Think about How simular letters relate to each other. What are the set up rules that you can bend.
*Patterson, J. (2011) Designer Interview: Hand-Letterer Simon Walker (Part I), available at: http://design.org/blog/designer-interview-hand-letterer-simon-walker-part-i, viewed on: 10/09/2013.
**Patterson, J. (2011) Designer Interview: Hand-Letterer Simon Walker (Part II), available at: http://design.org/blog/designer-interview-hand-letterer-simon-walker-part-ii, viewed on: 10/09/2013.
website: http://simonwalkertype.com/
REVIEW : 2ND -9TH SEP
Artists I've looked into so far
On blog:
Dave Rowland
Rui Abreu
pedroe Innoue
Erik R Johnson
Katie Lombardo
Ulrike Wilheml
Louise Fili
Kevin Smith
Jason Santa Maria *
Frank Chimero *
Eduiilson Wessle Coan
Rosmary Sassoon *
Colleen Doran
* Case study material?
In Typography Sketchbook Book (noteworthy):
Diego Giovanni - works with type and grapical elements alone by hand in sketchbooks. blocky
Susan Archie - plays with types in photoshop as its her sketchbook. use wrong colour to release control!
Bob Aufuldish - sketchbooks are the prelude to final pieces. cuts letters minutely small through magnifier.
Yomar Augusto - sketchbooks are for collecting the "waste". free from glare or restraints. just letters.
John Baeder - Fine artist. paints "signs" outside -expression and exploration of human communication.
Andreu Bailus - sketchbook documents life/travel experiences. collating responses to life enhances designs.
George Bates - evolving sketchbooks-experiment/ explore letter forms and concepts -> ideas/definition.
Travis Cain - sketchbook: play with letter forms and the patterns of type. pushing readibility ->new shapes
On blog:
Dave Rowland
Rui Abreu
pedroe Innoue
Erik R Johnson
Katie Lombardo
Ulrike Wilheml
Louise Fili
Kevin Smith
Jason Santa Maria *
Frank Chimero *
Eduiilson Wessle Coan
Rosmary Sassoon *
Colleen Doran
* Case study material?
In Typography Sketchbook Book (noteworthy):
Diego Giovanni - works with type and grapical elements alone by hand in sketchbooks. blocky
Susan Archie - plays with types in photoshop as its her sketchbook. use wrong colour to release control!
Bob Aufuldish - sketchbooks are the prelude to final pieces. cuts letters minutely small through magnifier.
Yomar Augusto - sketchbooks are for collecting the "waste". free from glare or restraints. just letters.
John Baeder - Fine artist. paints "signs" outside -expression and exploration of human communication.
Andreu Bailus - sketchbook documents life/travel experiences. collating responses to life enhances designs.
George Bates - evolving sketchbooks-experiment/ explore letter forms and concepts -> ideas/definition.
Travis Cain - sketchbook: play with letter forms and the patterns of type. pushing readibility ->new shapes
Friday, 6 September 2013
Artists looked into 2
Rosmary Sassoon-
Designed Sassoon typeface, for aided cognition in children's reading - slower reading enabled better understanding of words and tehir meaning.
Evidence:
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/23502.html
“The Sole Aim of contemporary printing seems to be to eradicate imprefections or any trave of a book’s construction, and it is exactly these things (ink squash, variable impression, subtle mis-registration) that delight and engage me senses. So, essentially, I am trying to build a level of unpredictability into the book’s conception.”
Pearson, D. (2011) Typography Sketchbooks, written by Heller, S. & Talarico, L. p249. London, Thames and Hudson.
Designed Sassoon typeface, for aided cognition in children's reading - slower reading enabled better understanding of words and tehir meaning.
Evidence:
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/services/23502.html
David Pearson
Field of Work: Typography
Passionate about utilising old hand processes, such as letterpress, rather than solely digitalised productions of text in graphic design such as book covers – an area he designs in prolifically.“The Sole Aim of contemporary printing seems to be to eradicate imprefections or any trave of a book’s construction, and it is exactly these things (ink squash, variable impression, subtle mis-registration) that delight and engage me senses. So, essentially, I am trying to build a level of unpredictability into the book’s conception.”
Pearson, D. (2011) Typography Sketchbooks, written by Heller, S. & Talarico, L. p249. London, Thames and Hudson.
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