The Bodoni typeface was created by Giambattista Bodoni in 1798 and is now classified as a “transitional” or “modern” font type, depending on the iteration. There are five features which characterize this font: its strong difference between thick and thin lines, its unbracketed, thin serifs, its vertical axis, its horizontal stress, and it’s small x-height.…
The manuscript Fregi and Majuscole was the first manuscript published by Giambattista Bodoni in which he engraved his own type, fused the pages together, and from start to finish produced each aspect without anyone else’s help. This manuscript is noteworthy because it was the first of multiple manuscripts created by Bodoni for their visual appeal…
Giambattista Bodoni was born circa 1740 in Saluzzo, in what is now known as the Piedmont region of Italy. Both his father and grandfather worked as printers, and at age 17 Bodoni decided to travel to Rome to independently find a job in printing himself. In Rome, he secured a job with the Catholic Church’s…
It would be an understatement to say that I absolutely adore this design. This design is off the Tshirt of my favorite band, Leprous, on an album which is my favorite, sadly, only for it’s visual designs. Whenever I view this design, I am immediately taken by the rigid geometric structure of the environment paired…
This design for the album merchandise for the metal band Trivium immediately caught my attention because of the contrast between the style and connotation of the typeface of the word versus the style of the logo above it. The typeface is very obviously reminiscent of Roman stone-chiseled letters, with tall all-capital letters, thin stems, arms,…
Flood was created in 1997 by Joachim Müller-Lancé, a German font designer known for his Latin and Kanji designs, and his work designing typefaces for Wired, Samsung, Bank of America, and more through his studio Kame Design. I chose Flood as a representation of myself for a few reasons, the first being the messy, rough…