*Image found on: https://alchetron.com/Herbert-Horne Herbert Horne, born in London in 1864, was raised by an architect, Horace, and his mother, Hannah. While coming of age, Horne looked up to his father and chose to follow in his artistic footsteps; he began a partnership at a young age with an esteemed architect, Mackmurdo, who set out…
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Navigating Talley Student Union: A Surprisingly Easy Experience
Talley Student Union is the heart of student life at NC State, and it is the space I choose to analyze. Talley is separated into different areas each with different functions. Most of Talley Student Union is used either for conference rooms and event spaces or offices and businesses. The first floor of the building…
Wild Design! Wild Friends!
I was walking around Cameron Village, trying to convince myself that I did not need to buy another book from Barnes & Noble, when I looked up and saw this mural. The message is very simple and I find it very cute. The typography varies and and to me, appears round and soft. The different…
Protest Against the Rising Tide
Created in 1964, Protest Against The Rising Tide is a poster done by Seymour Chwast, for Booth’s Gin company, promoting the sale of Booth’s alcohol. The poster features the words “Protest Against the Rising Tide of Conformity,” with a small line of font at the bottom stating “Serve Booth’s House of Lords, the non-conformist gin…
Louvre Logo by Grapus
The Louvre Museum in Paris asked Grapus to help brand their visual identity and create a new logo for them. The graphic logos would continue being developed by the Aterlier de Creation Graphique group, a smaller group within Grapus, until 1993 (Guillermou & Graphéine). The new logo for the Louvre Museum changed from “Musée du…
Gill San Seriff
Gill Sans is a typeface developed by Eric Gill in 1928. The font takes inspiration from the typeface Johnston Sans which most notably used by the London Underground. Gill was an apprentice to and helped designed the typeface with Edward Johnston. Originally a side project by Gill as he wanted to make Johnston Sans appear…
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (2016)
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End begins its game with an opening sequence that has various design elements that are telling of the themes and ideas that will be present throughout. The sequence’s visuals, typography, and use of lighting all set the stage for what kind of game Uncharted 4 is. The entire title occurs within…
Blenny
Blenny was designed by Dalton Maag. Dalton Maag is a typeface design studio that was founded in 1991. The main designer of blenny was Spike Spondike of Dalton Maag, however, they have no official time range or data of when Blenny was created or published for use. Blenny is thought to be a typeface that…
Chip Kidd – Killing Comendatore
Published in October of 2018 by Knopf, Killing Comendatore by Haruki Marukami is a book described as a “rambling voyage of self-discovery” by Xan Brooks for the Guardian. (Brooks, 2018). The design of the book jacket was designed by Chip Kidd. It is noted on Chip Kidd’s portfolio website that he was the Lead Designer…
Stanley Morison
Stanley Morison was an English typographer, scholar, and historian of printing. He was born on May 6, 1889 in Wanstead, England and he died on October 11, 1967 in London. He spent most of his time growing up at the family home him and his family had in London.…
The Fashion Plate
This image comes from a reproduction of the 1897 Sears, Roebuck catalog. You still hear the term “fashion plate” tossed around to describe someone who dresses well (and in the current style), but in fact these printed guidelines on “how to dress” date as far back as Ackerman’s Repository of Arts in the first quarter…
A. M. Cassandre – Peignot
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…
Matthew Carter: My Life in Type
In his TedTalk titled Matthew Carter: My Life in Type, Matthew Carter, a British typeface designer for an array of widely used fonts, details his typographic journey and materialization of type throughout a time of high-speed technological innovation. I personally appreciated Carter’s candidacy in revealing the setbacks and flaws behind eventual typographic successes. It is…
Hermann Zapf Virtuosa 1952; 2009
“Until the nineteenth century, books remained the major product of the printer. By the beginning of industrialization, the traditions of roman, italic, and black-letter types had been well established” (Lawson, 363). However; script types did not readily join their serif and sans serif counterparts in the new century. At the time, very few script types…
Hermann Zapf Optima 1958
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…
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