Found this pretty interesting book a couple of months back while travelling in France. Titled Detail in Typography (Le Détail en Typography), this book deals with ‘everything’ micro-typography and working with the column of text, enhancing its readability and legibility, all in a very approachable and concise manner. This great edition – first published in [...]
Posted on: 25 August 2010, 0:16
Posted in: Books, Shopping, print design, research/study, typography Tags: book, Jost Hochuli, micro-typography, print design, Robert Bringhurst, typography Leave a comment
I am a big fan of printing processes and experimenting with them, I’ve done research on their associated psychological response and I believe each process should be chosen in response to the brief. With the same concept, Underware, the design collective author of fabulous typefaces, managed to ‘manufacture’ blood offset ink. For the sampler of [...]
Posted on: 12 June 2010, 20:36
Posted in: design inspiration, printing process/finishing, typography Tags: blood ink, print design, printing process/finishing, techniques, type foundry, Underware Leave a comment
I have heard about it the first time in a FontShop newsletter I think, and now came across a site actually using it. Typekit lets you use designer typeface online on your website, so you don’t have to stick to the classics Georgia or Verdana and others anymore! It uses Javascript to substitute the fonts [...]
Posted on: 9 March 2010, 22:58
Posted in: design inspiration, typography Tags: type foundry, Typekit, typography, web design Leave a comment
Just came back from holiday in Rome, and apart from the many pizza, pasta, wine and ice cream; I managed to observe some nice hand crafted typography and lettering work on different materials and from (mostly) old and more recent eras. Loved the variety, in texture, face, techniques… from very carefully hand carved text in [...]
Posted on: 28 October 2009, 1:40
Posted in: design inspiration, typography Tags: ancient, hand crafted, lettering, material, Rome, techniques, texture, typography Leave a comment