Klavika is a typeface designed by Eric Olson, cofounder of the Process Type Foundry. This font style is quite famous, being offered on most writing platforms, such as Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and more. The Klavika typeface was officially released by the process Process Type Foundry in 2004, and the typeface proved to be quite…
Alfred Roller designed this poster for the 16th Vienna Secession Exhibition in 1902 or 1903. It was one of a few that were designed to promote the exhibition. Although it is less famous than the other work that he did for the multiple exhibitions he had designed for, it still draws the viewer’s eye because…
Ian Anderson and The Designers Republic origins are without a doubt in the music scene, with their earliest works creating club posters, event fliers and album covers for the bands they knew and frequently worked with. In the 90s, they became a key collaborator with the Sheffield imprint Warp Records designing various covers and even…
Images: ( Kali Nikitas, Curator of Moments) Kali Nikitas lead Typo Berlin in 2018. Her studio and others participated in the inauguration of Typo Talent Talks. Typo conference is held every year and the conference has been hosted by many people. Typo Berlin explores the way design plays a role in shifting our world. This…
This piece was designed by David Carson for Nike. This piece of work was created as an advertisement for Nike’s Air Challenge. This design piece was significant in David Carson’s career because, after years of only taking part in editorial work, Nike was one of the first companies to contact him and ask him to…
This piece by David Carson in collaboration with Beach Culture magazine in 1990. This certain piece is significant to Carson’s career for multiple reasons. During his time working for Beach Culture, Carson began to gain more attention from the public. Even though Beach Culture only stayed around long enough to publish six issues, this is…
David Carson joined the graphic design scene relatively late in life. Though born on September 8, 1955, Carson didn’t make a wave in the design world until the 1990s. Carson went on to study sociology at San Diego State University. There, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and eventually took up a teaching…
One of Depero’s projects that first stood out to me was I balli plastici. This is a set design that was created in 1921. In 1917, Depero began to conceive of a Futurist ballet in which machine-like puppets would replace human actors and dancers. He felt that this would emphasize the Futurist ideals of technology…
North by Northwest is a thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock about an advertising executive in New York City who is mistaken to be a government agent and has to outrun foreign spies. However, the star of this movie was the famous introduction, designed by Saul Bass in 1959. This experimental sequence is often cited as…
For the opening sequence of the film “The Island of Dr. Moreau” Richard Stanley and John Frankenheimer set out to create an environment that clearly communicates the psychological horror aspect of the film. The key notion is that what the viewer is about to watch is full of mystery, dread, and unsettling concepts. This…
It Is What It Is, is a collective of images and work from the 2×4 studio. The images were compiled by of 2×4’s founding partners, Michael Rock. This book is very important in that it directly reflects the ideology and methodology that Rock showcases in his work and what the 2×4 studio aligns with as…
Cassandre was most well known as a poster artist, but he delved into many different areas of art, including the creation of typefaces. Many of his typefaces were widely used and impactful, with one of the more interesting types being Peignot, which he created in 1937. The type was commissioned by Deberny & Peignot. The…
During the 1880s, the type industry began to face a frustrating design problem. Because type supplies – sizes, widths, base alignment and metal alloy – were uncommon, most printing establishments had no choice but to continue a business relationship with a single type foundry rather than branching out into others. The lack of advanced printing…
Century is a family of serif typefaces meant for use in body text. Linn Boyd Benton with American Type Founders (ATF) designed this font in 1894, for Theodore Low De Vinne to be used in The Century Magazine. Following his many machine-produced typography inventions, this typeface was the only one created by Benton during his…
Previously, type designers were unsuccessful in their attempt to create a sans-serif type that “could be considered both beautiful and utilitarian” (Lawson, 324). “For the better part of a century, sans-serif types tended to be unimaginative renditions of roman letter forms, although it was discovered that their monotone characteristics did allow for variations of weight…