I chose Die vier Buecher von der Nachfolge Christi by Thomas von Kempis. Translated, this title means “The Four Books of the Following of Christ.” This edition of the book was published in 1922. Visually, the book looks to be a religious text without any context of what could be inside. The cover is textured…
Lockhart’s Ancient Spanish Ballads: Historical and Romantic (published 1842) has many interesting and beautiful design features. The book is large and rather heavy, but not so heavy that it is difficult to handle. Its front cover is bound in dark green leather embossed with golden floral designs that frame the title, set in all caps…
Judge a Book by its Cover By: Lavanya Gunturi Part 1: The book I chose to check out was File Under Architecture by Herbert Muschamp. The book caught my eye on the self, because it looked more like a cardboard box than a book. Books that are fragile are usually stored within a custom box,…
As I pulled Asymmetric Typography out of the stacks of other reserved books at the NCSU design Library, I immediately noticed how small it was. It appeared to be hiding closer to the back of the book shelf, in the shadows of two larger books beside it. In fact, I did not even find it…
The book that I chose for this assignment was, Het boek van PTT Telegrafie en Telefoni, designed by Piet Zwart. The first visual impression of this book I had was I noticed the strange graphics on the front and I was curious what the inside of the book looked like. Out of all the books…
While at the Special Collections visit, I looked through the book The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur, by Sir Thomas Mallory published in 1909. At first glance, the book caught my eye because of the unique color and intricate designs on the cover. The book is an olive-green color with gold markings resembling flowers on the…
The cover of Contemporary Furniture and Textiles is bold, with contrasting colors, pattern, repetition, and angular lines and shapes. The cover is shiny giving it an appealing appearance that is modern and chic for its time. The background color is a silver/grey with a red K in the center that stands out visually, drawing the…
For our assignment on “Judging a Book By Its Cover”, I chose Karel Marten’s “counterprint”, a collection of Martens’ independent and non-commissioned graphic design work. The book intially jumped out to me for its simplicity, its lack of adornment, and the seemingly transparent nature of the cover (seen above). At first glance, it’s hard to…
The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia and Electric Speech When I first saw the cover, I found it very interesting because the words “The Telephone Book” didn’t follow the standard pattern of writing. They are separated from each other in different sizes and shapes. When skimming through the pages, I noticed this pattern is all over…
The eye of a designer sees much more than most other people. Walking around the streets of New York City, a businessman might not look around and see all of the typefaces and signage that surrounds him. He probably wouldn’t notice that a majority of these posters, advertisements, and signs feature the font Helvetica. Helvetica…
This typeface is Tacitus and Mark Jamra is the type designer. He is also a graphic designer and Associate Professor at Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. He has designed and produced typefaces for close to 30 years. His lettering and typefaces have been shown in numerous exhibitions and have received awards from the…
Gills Sans has been popular every since Eric Gills released the font in 1928. Part of the reason I was drawn to the font was because it was designed by an artist. Like Eric Gills, who studied at London’s Central School of Arts and Crafts, I was lead to design through the study of art.…
This script, Caflisch Script Pro Light, was designed by Robert Slimbach who joined Adobe in 1987. When searching through all the various fonts, I found that the more script-like fonts appealed to me most. I filtered through all the script fonts and found this one to stand out to me. The font reminds me of…
Designed by Mark Simonson in 2009, Mostra Nuova Alt A Bold was based on a style of lettering seen on Italian Art Deco posters and advertising of the 1930s. Although it’s very geometric, he made subtle optical adjustments to keep it from looking too severely mechanical. He first released it in 2001 as Mostra, a…
Gloss Drop is a script typeface that resembles my expressive and passionate nature. Its unexpected rhythm and movement portrays my free spirit when I paint (or on the dance floor). I find this typeface to follow very few rules and additionally has my craving for creativity and freedom. Gloss Drop was designed by Roland Hörmann…