Rand is a typeface belonging to a trio of fonts, with the other two being Plain (2014) and Apax(2016). Created by type designer Francois Rappo, this trio of fonts was devoted to his work in the grotesque genre, as he continued to research the minimalism of modernism through Plain and the visual language of constructivism…
Archive for April, 2022
Who’s Who in Graphic Design: Joseph Kaspar Sattler Part 2- Photo#2
Joseph Kaspar Sattler created the typeface Nibelunge-schrift in 1897 for the Reichsdruckerei Berlin. This typeface was created for the 1900 book project Die Nibelungen. The Nibelungen-Schrift typeface is considered a type of Art Nouveau script typeface. The creation of this typeface was a big milestone in Joseph Sattler’s design career. The typeface is a very…
Who’s Who: Bobby C. Martin Jr. – Part 2
Bobby C. Martin Jr. has influenced many corporations through his having been part of so many different groups. Martin through his own company however has continued this influence. One example of this is the company’s redesign of the brand name of Carnegie Hall. Carnegie Hall, while having existed for a long time, wanted a new…
BLOODS project: Hudson-Powell
So, the project here is the title sequence for the show BLOODS, on Sky TV (a British network). This project was started by Hudson-Powell along with their other creators at Pentagram in early 2021. The nature of this project was to use brand identity, motion graphics other cool design details in order to make a…
Lourdes Zolezzi
My designer name is Lourdes Zolezzi. She was born in Mexico, and 1972, and went to college to pursue her career in art and graphic design. She went to a university in the Metropolitan Autonomous, and earned her Graphic Communication Design Degree. She had also earned a masters degree of visual art at San Carlos…
Four-Color Process Printing
Theodore Low De Vinne was one of the very first people to begin experimenting with color printing. He even won the gold Special Medal of Award of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 1908 for his work in four-color-process printing (Encyclopedia, 2022). The four-color printing process was used in order to create accurate colors…
Linda Van Deursen (Mevis and Van Deursen Studio)
Linda van Deursen is a graphic designer based in Amsterdam and has practice in book design and worked with multiple cultural institutions doing brand identity projects. She graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy with Armand Mevis in 1986 and the two would go on to form Mevis and van Deursen Studio the following year. Linda van…
Linotype Machine
Theodore Low De Vinne was one of the first people to use the linotype machine to publish books in 1891 (Britannica, 2022). The Linotype machine was invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1884 (Centre, 2022). This machine is a typesetting machine in that characters are placed in a finished line in order to print faster than…
Theodore Low De Vinne
Theodore Low De Vinne was born on December 25th, 1828 in Stamford Connecticut to his father Daniel, an abolitionist, Methodist circuit rider, and author, and mother Joanna Augusta Low De Vinne. De Vinne was the second oldest of six sons and attended public schools in Catskill, amenia, and white plains, New York (Koenig, 2022). He…
Who’s Who: Bobby C. Martin Jr. – Part 1
Bobby C. Martin Jr. is known today as one of Founding Partners for the design company Champions Design. He founded Champions Design, which used to be known as OCD or the Original Champions of Design, alongside Jennifer Kinon. Martin attended both Virginia Commonwealth University from 1994 through 1999 and NYC School of Visual Arts from…
Process Type Foundry (Eric Olson and Nicole Dotin)
Process Type Foundry is a small family business of typeface makers, established in 2002 in Minneapolis, Minnesota consisting of a partnership of married typeface designers Eric Olson and Nicole Dotin. With these two talented designers working together, the company has been responsible for many popular fonts in recent history such as the fonts Klavika, Colfax, …
Who’s Who: Hudson-Powell
The interesting thing that I have found is that although there are two individuals that are a part of Hudson-Powell finding information about them before 2005 seems to be impossible. The only early life information that I found about either of them was that Jody was born in 1979 somewhere in Britain. The next available…
Medusa Mondadori
The book Medusa Mondadori was designed by Giovanni Mardersteig, the client was Arnoldo Mondadori Editore and was designed in the year of 1933. The book is green and is filled with simple yet elegant sans serif fonts and illustration on the cover. This series of books marked just like the designer Mardersteig, the advancement of…
Dante Font
The font Dante was designed by Giovanni Mardersteig and is owned by the foundry Monotype. This font was issued in 1933 and was created to work nicely with Times New Roman in his printing press. Mardersteig started development on this type face right after the World War when his printing press was fully operational again.…
Who’s Who in Graphic Design: Joseph Kaspar Sattler Part 2- Photo#1
Pan was a magazine that was devoted to literature, art, and politics and commented on social issues. This magazine cover illustration which was designed by Joseph Kaspar Sattler was printed and published in 1895. This is illustration is one of the big highlights of Joseph Sattler’s career-making him famous in the Art Nouveau design world.…