UPDATE: Apologies to Scott Teplin for misspelling his name and linking to an incorrect URL. Sloppy! Here’s a link to say that his brilliant letters are now available in colour - take a look. A friend of mine passed me an article the other day from Advanced Photoshop, which in general probably stands a little above my head, but it had an article which she (rightly!) thought I’d be interested in. I’m just going to share some choice quotes and put in some images that I’ve seen myself around the web recently that illustrate the point nicely.Generally known as ‘display typography,’ it is becoming a potent and expressive element with much more concern for an aesthetic [as opposed to functional] approach.
Type Toys by Marcus SchaeferKapitza, a contemporary design partnership since 2004, specialises in picture fonts - “we have been developing an extensive set of picture fonts that lie somewhere between type ornaments, an image library resource and an art project.”
Scott Teplin, Neighbourhood TypeSays Alex Haigh of Thinkdust, “When thinking of a design classic, Helvetica is probably what the majority of designers think of first. However, with due respect to the face, I’m quite bord of how it is constantly over used .. only a small majority of very tight designers I have seen recently seem to challenge the face in order to create something new and fresh”
Guardian Poster Executions byW+K LondonAnd my favourite quote, from Tony Ariawan, creator of studio Area105, “it’s typography that differentiates graphc design and other visual art, like say paintings. Typography has its own functional and aesthetic means on translating verbal communication onto visual form.”
UPDATE: Alison Jackson, mentioned below is exhibiting her amazing work at the Hamiltons Gallery nr Hyde Park from 16th April. Don’t miss it.
Back from Marrakech, back from Essaouira. These are wonderful places, as I gleefully explained to a good friend who is getting married in September and pondering honeymoon destinations.
All of the best photos of my trip are in my flickr (or on facebook, if you’d like to add me as a friend), but here’s two good ones:
Cascades d’Ouzzoud
Essaouira
The trip, funnily enough, sparked in me two renewed interests.
Firstly, in early Art Nouveau posters, about which I’ve been reading, recently, thanks to a huge book that my friends at the British Library bought me as a leaving present. I bought two posters that I’m going to get framed over the weekend.
Secondly, although there was a glaring lack of advertising billboards, posters or flyers almost anywhere (it intrigued me that I noticed this), the ones that did exist had been so obviously and poorly put together with that it made me realise how easy it is to manipulate photography well when you have the latest software (read: Adobe CS3).
But to do it really, really well.. that’s another story entirely. Take a look at Alison Jackson’s brilliant work, for example (a couple are NSFW). Now that’s some really high quality photoshopping!
March 26, 2008 at 2:24 pm · Filed under Comment, Fun
From the absolutely fantastic stuff white people like blog, a definitive (but unfinished) list of stuff white people like. My favourites are #63, #62, #9 and #2!
Like this poster on Hampstead Road near where I live. Superb.
Can you imagine if this said ’some people are BLACK’ or ’some people are TURKISH CYPRIOT’ etc? I’m not quite sure what to make of it. Is it just preaching to the converted? Do you think this is going to win people over? Or is it just antagonistic? Difficult to put myself in a homophobe’s shoes (they’re sticky, old and unfashionable, for a start) but I reckon this would just wind me up even more.
The second thing - well, the Worship Street Irregulars beat me to it (typical!) - make sure you have the volume on.
And finally, it’s 33 degrees in Marrakech today. I need to buy me some shorts. See you in a week!
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