Dalton Maag

Dalton Maag have been sending out a lovely set of type specimens. It took me a while to track down some images of them on the internet. But they are really nice and its great to see how other people have displayed a typeface to its best and also the synergy between the fonts and the print and production techniques which really make the typefaces stand out.

Unit Editions

This is a really nice publication from Unit Editions. I like how the band contains all the information about the book and the the cover itself is free to show off a big typographic pattern. I want to do something similar with my type specimen mailshot package.

Joe showed me this great book called Typeface as Program by ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne.

It is particularly interesting not because of its specific subject matter, which is about how computer programs can be used to make typefaces but more because of the way the typefaces are presented.

Lots of really playful and innovative ways have of displaying them have been used to show off the letter forms. One section is of a whole set of posters that have been photographed and displayed as spreads.

Brownstone

I just saw this new font on typography served its quite similar to my grande fete font. It would be interesting to do some typographic ornaments to go with the typeface.

Art Deco Graphics

Here are some Scans from the book Art Deco graphics by Patricia Frantz Kery. I am really interested in how the little details of each letter make up the character of the alphabet. Having a good look at this typography will allow me to reinterpret the details into a new alphabet.

Simon Memel

It's Nice That has a very interesting feature about how Simon Memel designed their Graduates 2010 logo.

It shows where he drew his inspiration from, some of his development work and the final piece. it's interesting to see how he create the whole logo from a number of simple elements.

Verdun

Art deco inspired typeface designed byMind.

Mind Tess identity

Work by my favorite design studio Mind for model agency Tess. Identity is based around an incredibly beautiful and complex type design which draws from art deco.

Art Deco Typography

Below is some writing from the U&lc website about Art Deco typography, very interesting. Below that are some typeface they pick out from that era.

Cool, jazzy, a little world-weary – that’s Art Deco, surely one of the most distinctive design movements of the last century. Although most commonly known for its influence on architecture, advertising, interior design and fashion, Art Deco cast its spell of sleek modernity over typography with equal abandon.

From its origins in Europe during the first decade of the 20th century, the Art Deco movement quickly spread to the United States, where it remained a popular and pervasive style through the mid-1930s. The Art Deco aesthetic is characterized by graceful, stylized and geometric shapes, often in symmetrical arrangements. If you’ve seen the Chrysler Building in New York City, you’ve seen one of the most spectacular examples of Art Deco architecture.

Art Deco typestyles range from uncomplicated, low-waisted monostroke designs, such as ITC Anna,Bernhard Fashion, Busorama and Coquette, to more intricate, decorative typestyles, such as Beverly Hills, Chic,Broadway Engraved, Gallia, ITC Mona Lisa Recut and Philco Deco The most ornate Deco designs feature double, triple or multi-lineal stroke details. Art Deco typestyles can be angular or curvy, elegant or playful, but all have the attitude of swank sophistication we associate with that period.

Many Art Deco type styles are all-cap fonts, and almost all are display designs due to their decorative nature. Consider these stylish faces for posters, advertisements, book covers, announcements – whenever you want to evoke the timeless glamour of an era gone by.