Showing posts with label Brief two. Show all posts
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Monday, 28 May 2012
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
50th invitations
Front- Will be laser cut- Cut through.
There will be a sheet of tissue paper in between the front and the back.
This will give it a more vintage feel and also cover the type from the
back of the invitation so it doesn't show through the laser cut type on
the front of the invitation.
Back- Will be engraved using the laser cutter.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Alphabet 26
The plan for simplifying and improving our alphabet, entitled “Alphabet 26,” was first presented in Westvaco Inspirations 180 in 1950. It recommended the use of only one symbol for each of the 26 letters.
Our conventional alphabet contains 19 letters having dissimilar upper and lower case symbols (such as ‘A’ and ‘a’) and 7 letters (c-o-s-v-w-x-z) having symbols that are identical.
It is misleading for a letter, or for any graphic symbol, to have two different designs. Confusion might set in when school children are taught to recognize words even before they have learned to recognize different symbols for the same letter.
To remedy this, Alphabet 26, a plan based upon the logic of consistency, proposed that of the 19 letters that have dissimilar symbols 15 letters should use the uppercase designs [black letters below] and 4 letters should use the lowercase designs [green letters]. The other 7 letters already have identical symbols [blue letters].
Alphabet 26 provides the necessary large letters for emphasis at the beginning of the sentence and for denoting proper nouns, an advantage over the exclusive use of an all lowercase alphabet, as recommended at the Bauhaus.
The Alphabet 26 plan is applicable to all type families. The choice of Baskerville to introduce Alphabet 26 in Inspirations 180 was made for tactical, historical, and practical reasons. To appeal to as broad a segment of readers as possible, it seemed prudent to present this radical change in our time-honored alphabet with a traditional typeface rather than an extreme one, such as Futura, or even a modern one such as Bodoni. An old style typeface such as Garamond would likewise be inappropriate.
Baskerville, a transitional typeface from our own contemporary point of view, seemed to be the right choice, especially when accompanied by the mid-eighteenth century engravings of the Diderot Encyclopédie, which date from the same period. It seemed appropriate, too, to honor John Baskerville himself, whose type design was considered innovative in his time. A purely practical reason for the choice was the fact that Baskerville type possessed a lowercase main body and a small-cap body that aligned with each other, a strong point not found in Bodoni and some other faces.
Alphabet 26 provided an impetus in the fifties and sixties for lettering artists to enliven the typographic scene with the design of biform alphabets. These were unusual combinations of capital and lowercase letters within a single word or font, valued more for their visual interest and attention-getting qualities than for contributing to a simplified alphabet. Alphabet 26 also provided designers with an immediate means to produce many useful trademarks.
Implicit in the republication of Alphabet 26 is the hope that it might prompt typeface designers and manufacturers to produce it for general use and trial. An equally important hope is that it might suggest a solution for another simplified alphabet in the future. Such a challenge could do no less than provide an enjoyable project for some young designer, as it did for the author thirty-eight years ago inWestvaco Inspirations 180.
Monday, 12 March 2012
Bradbury Thompson
Open publication - Free publishing - More bradbury
I have been looking into typography from the 1950's and came across Bradbury Thompson. I love his style and use of colours and i really like the typeface he created.
I have been looking into typography from the 1950's and came across Bradbury Thompson. I love his style and use of colours and i really like the typeface he created.
Alphabet 26
Thompson developed a font called Alphabet 26 or a "monoalphabet" - an alphabet where the uppercase and lowercase forms of each letter were identical, and case was expressed through the letter size only. (In the conventional Latin alphabet, this is already the case for letters like "o" and "O" or "u" and "U", but not for "a"/"A", "r/R", etc.) His monoalphabet was a transitional serif (modelled after Baskerville) with lowercase a, e, m and n mixed with uppercase B, D, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, P, Q, R, T, U and Y. (The forms of C/c, O/o, S/s, V/v, W/w, X/x and Z/z are essentially the same in uppercase and lowercase to begin with). This simplification was intended to make the letters of the alphabet more logical and intuitive, and hence render the alphabet easier to learn and use especially for children.[5] Thompson first published the alphabet in a Westvaco Inspirations for Printers.[1]
The set of letters for Alphabet 26 thus appears:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Example: Bradbury Thompson designed alphabet 26
Communication Arts said of Bradbury "When it came to the blending of photography, typography and color, nobody did it better than Bradbury Thompson... In his own quiet way, he expanded the boundaries of the printed page and influenced the design of a generation of art directors."[1]
Thompson was born in Topeka, Kansas. He attended Washburn College and graduated in 1934.[2] A facility called the Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center now stands atWashburn University. In 1937, Thompson designed the college's mascot, "The Ichabod".
Thompson was art director of Mademoiselle magazine for fifteen years beginning in 1945.
A signature design from Thompson was his Washburn College Bible.[3] This book was one of the first to use the Sabon typeface designed by Jan Tschichold and released in 1967.
Thompson served on the faculty of Yale University. Thompson received the AIGA Gold Medal in 1975.[4] He received the Type Director's Club Medal in 1986.
He died on November 1, 1995.
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Thursday, 8 March 2012
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