The month of April and July (left to right) During the 1970s, a time of technological exploration, designers were able to find new ways of phototypesetting that they could not do with simple cast metal fonts in the past. They started an era of new eccentric and attractive fonts, and Igarashi took full advantage of…
Letter J and Letter W (left to right) Aside from his graphic designs, Igarashi is equally famous for his alphabetical sculptures that he created in the 1980s. One prime example is his Aluminum Alphabet Series, which is interestingly his only series that has the complete set of 26 letters A…
Born in Tagikawa City, Hokkaido, Japan in 1944, Takenobu Igarashi is now an internationally acclaimed graphic designer. As a child, he grew up in Japan right before his country’s surrender to the Allies during World War II. He enjoyed American products like Hershey’s chocolate bars not for its chocolate, but for it’s bold lettering. America…
Use of visual elements The opening credits utilize a pop up book style theme. Since the film is live action, this theme suggests to the audience that this was based on a book, even if they had not heard of said book in the first place. As the opening credits roll, the paper moves in…
American typographer Guy Jeffrey Nelson created this script “FontFont” in 1994. This family of fonts has two weights of Regular and Bold, which boasts a handwritten style. This FontFont is a member of the FF Providence super family font, which was first designed in 1987 but was revised in 1994. This font is named after…