Friday, September 16, 2011
home for the weekend
so i'm at my parents house for the weekend and i was reading my mom's better homes and garden and i found this cool looking store/website. the company is called c.s.post & co. i got on there website and discovered it is a Local-ish company it is based out of Kansas! I though it was pretty cool you sound check it out right here! it is really cool furniture some vintage and some newer
Monday, September 12, 2011
typographic figures
Living
1. ed denguiat - usa - worked at esquire and joined photo-lettering inc. credited with more than 600 typefaces, among them itc souvenir, itc tiffany, and itc bauhaus.
2. hermann zapf - germany - designed his first typeface at the age of 20. one of the few type designers to produce in metal, phototypesetting, and computer
3. matthew carter - england, usa - experience in metal type, phototype, and digital type, excelled in making an array of typefaces and later got in to selling fonts.
4. zuzana licko - czechoslovakia, usa - not trained in typography but designed fonts for the intro of the macintosh. her type is not longer constrained by technologie.
5. erik spiekermann - germany, usa - ran a basement printing press to fund college, established fontshop international.
Dead
1. erhard ratdolt - germany/italy - designed and printed perhaps the first recorded type specimen sheet in 1486, showcasing his black letter, Roman and Greek type face designs.
2. claude garamond - france - was one of the first to punch cutters to work independently and sell his fonts to printers.
3. francesco griffo da bologna - italy - created te first italic typeface in 1499.
4. robert granjon - france/netherlands/italy - designed civilite, a black letter script in the late 1550s that was broadly used in france.
5. jean jannon - derived from the typeface of claude garamond, jannon created a roman and italic typeface in 1621 for his own use because of its similarity however, jannon's typefaces were initially mistaken as garamonds.
{graphic design refrenced}
1. ed denguiat - usa - worked at esquire and joined photo-lettering inc. credited with more than 600 typefaces, among them itc souvenir, itc tiffany, and itc bauhaus.
2. hermann zapf - germany - designed his first typeface at the age of 20. one of the few type designers to produce in metal, phototypesetting, and computer
3. matthew carter - england, usa - experience in metal type, phototype, and digital type, excelled in making an array of typefaces and later got in to selling fonts.
4. zuzana licko - czechoslovakia, usa - not trained in typography but designed fonts for the intro of the macintosh. her type is not longer constrained by technologie.
5. erik spiekermann - germany, usa - ran a basement printing press to fund college, established fontshop international.
Dead
1. erhard ratdolt - germany/italy - designed and printed perhaps the first recorded type specimen sheet in 1486, showcasing his black letter, Roman and Greek type face designs.
2. claude garamond - france - was one of the first to punch cutters to work independently and sell his fonts to printers.
3. francesco griffo da bologna - italy - created te first italic typeface in 1499.
4. robert granjon - france/netherlands/italy - designed civilite, a black letter script in the late 1550s that was broadly used in france.
5. jean jannon - derived from the typeface of claude garamond, jannon created a roman and italic typeface in 1621 for his own use because of its similarity however, jannon's typefaces were initially mistaken as garamonds.
{graphic design refrenced}
Friday, September 9, 2011
Thursday, September 8, 2011
univers
Adrian Frutiger iss a prominent typeface designer of the 20th century. Best known for creating univers and fruiger. He is from switzerland which is cool i want to go there. Neutrality sounds fantastic to me, im a peace keeper myself. And he is a font designer and i am in type class. how interesting! his career and typeface development spans hot metal, photo typesetting, and digital typesetting eras.
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