Thursday, October 23, 2014

FUSE type designers

Within the FUSE segment by Neville Brody, he mentioned other type designers that he worked along side for this project. The names he listed are

Geared Unger, Barry Deck, Paul Ellimans, Rick Vermeulen, PhilBicker, Tobias Frere-Jones, Cornel Windlin, Mario Beernaert, David Crew, John Critchley, Florian Heiß, Anna-Lisa Schönecher, and Jason Bailey. I have chosen the following six to research:


Phil Bicker

Phil Bicker is an internationally renowned creative director, designer and photo editor who has worked for editorial, advertising, fashion and art clients. Phil initially established himself as an art director at The Face in London where he gave many now established photographers their first commissions. He art directed Creative Camera Magazine for a number of years; as creative director of Vogue Hommes International he encouraged fine art photographers to create fashion stories. Since moving to New York, he has worked for a diverse client base including Calvin Klein, BBH on the Levis account and until recently, was creative director at The Fader. He continues to place photography at the center of his creative endeavors splitting his time at Magnum Photos and Time magazine.


http://honorabledanielsan.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/interview-with-phil-bicker/


Tobias Frere-Jones

Over 25 years, Tobias has established himself as one of the world’s leading typeface designers and created some of the world’s most widely used typefaces. He received a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. He joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Art in 1996 and has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. His work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2006, The Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague (KABK) awarded him the Gerrit Noordzij Prijs, for his contributions to typographic design, writing and education. In 2013 he received the AIGA Medal, in recognition of exceptional achievements in the field of design.


http://www.frerejones.com/about


Cornel Windlin


After graduating from Schule für Gestaltung Luzern, Cornel Windlin moved to London in 1988 to work for Neville Brody and later became art editor for THE FACE magazine. In 1993 he returned to his native Switzerland and started his own design practice in Zurich. He currently works as a designer/art director in both Zurich and London for a number of clients in both cultural and commercial fields. Cornel Windlin started creating typefaces primarily for use in his own work while still at art school. Windlin has created corporate typefaces for clients as diverse as Mitsubishi cars or the Herzefeld Memorial Trust, or custom fonts for projects at Kunsthaus Zurich, Tate museums as well as various editorial projects.



https://www.fontfont.com/designers/cornel-windlin


John Critchley

John is most recently employed as Art Director of the cultural institution, Southbank Centre, Europe’s largest centre for the arts, after previously working with Neville Brody's research studios in London. Since then has worked for a number of different clients across all media, including projects for advertising, television, film, publishing and record companies. Recently formed Visual Material which undertakes print, animation and web design projects.


https://www.fontfont.com/designers/john-critchley


Anna-Lisa Schönecher

Anna-Lisa holds two BA degrees (graphic design and product design) and an MA in communications design from the Royal College of Art. She began her career at Pentagram working on editorial and corporate design projects for the Tate Gallery, the National Trust, Boot Clibborn Editions and Time Life. She designed the typeface “White No Sugar” for FUSE and her work has been recognised by the New York Art Director’s Club and One Show Interactive amongst others and published in “Women in Graphic Design 1890-2012” and “G1, Icons of Graphic Design”.



http://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/fuse-power-20
http://www.schoenecker.com


Barry Deck

Born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in 1962, Deck grew up to work with design, specifically type.  It is said he is seen as being quite a radical. Deck is associated with distorted typefaces. His typefaces came to typify the 'new wave' of the early 1990s and Emigré proclaimed his font Template Gothic as "the typeface of the decade". In 1995 he set up his own company, Dysmedia, and has worked with Pepsi, Reebok, Nickelodeon, and VH1.
On of his more famous fount are templet gothic as seen below


http://www.identifont.com/show?1HV
http://www.barrydeck.com


Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Project 3 - Type info

Small caps are letters that appear to be the size of the lower case letters, but look like capitals. If you had a small cap next to an all caps, you would see clearly that the small cap looks the same as the larger cap, but is almost half its size.
The font Garamond does offered small caps. 

Ligatures happen when two or more letters are joined as a single glyph.
They are used because sometimes two letters next to each other may appear awkward, such as the f and the i, f and f, f and l.
The font Garamond does have ligatures.

A footmark is a strait mark that floats above the font around the cap height. It is used when showing measurements. 
An apostrophe, similar to the footmark, but is curled and almost looks like a floating comma. It is used in text to show that certain letters in a contraction are missing, and to indicate ownership — that something belongs to someone.

Quote marks look to be two apostrophes side by side. They are used in punctuation to emphasize a phrase or word or to indicate speech 

Inch marks are strait and similar to quote marks, but they do not curve at all. They are used to describe measurements.

When turned on, Smart Quotes will substitute any strait, inch marks you type into curled apostrophes. 

A hyphen is used when you are combining two words or there is a word break. Ex low-budget
An en dash a little bit bigger, the size of an "n" typically. It is used to signify a “through” relationship. For example Monday through Friday would be Monday–Friday
An em dash is the largest hyphen size, sometimes the size of a "m." It indicates a pause, or separates a clause in a sentence—like this—from the rest of the sentence. It is similar to a parenthetical phrases (such as this).

Saturday, October 18, 2014

I thought this was such a brilliant idea! It is south rose free typeface / by sydney goldstein

Monday, October 13, 2014

Garamond Type

FONT INFO - Garamond


My font is a serif and was designed by Claude Garamont (sometimes Garamond) (1480-1561) in the sixteenth century. The later known font, Adobe Garamond, was created by Robert Slimbach in 1989.   
Claude Garamont is known for his type faces Garamond Original, Grecs du Roi, Granjon and Sabon. As stated before, Garamond is a serif and is classified to be an Old Style font or Garalade.

The current Adobe Garamond family consists of Regular, Italic, Bold, SemiItalic, SemiBold, BoldItalic. It can be used in lowercase, small caps, uppercase, and includes all punctuation and numbers. 


FONT INFORMATION


Old Style: is a serif font with irregularity and slanted ascenders with little contrast in weight 
        Garamond, Caslon, Minion
Transitional: a serif font that has a much greater contrast between light and heavy strokes than Old Style
       Baskerville, Bookman, Clearface
Modern: a serif font with extreme thick and thin contrasts
       Bodoni, Didot, Aster
Slab Serif: a serif font that is mono-weight, not having much contrast in its lines at all
       Rockwell, Courier, Guardian Egyptian
Sans Serif: a font without serifs; this is thin decided into Geometric, Grotesque, Humanistic
       Interstate, Brandon Grotesque, Helvetica 

Stroke Weight is the thickness in lines of a font. It can range from Ultra thin to Ultra Black. Some common ones are Light, Hairline, Regular, Roman

Stress is the diagonal, vertical, or horizontal thick-to-thin transition in the stroke of a letter
Small caps: uppercase characters that are the same height and weight as the surrounding lowercase
Lining Figures: a modern style of numerals where all figures are the same height and rest on the baseline 
Non-aligning figures: unlike lining figures, these figures do not line up on the baseline, having ascenders and descenders 
Ligatures: when two or more letters are formed together to make a single glyph

Type measurement: 1 pica = 1/6 of an inch; 1 point = 1/12 pica = 1/72 inch 

baseline: what the font sits upon, the descenders extend downwards from
x-height: the hight of the lower case font, set by the hight of the "x" 
cap height: the hight of the capital letters in a font 
ascender: what extends above the x hight, typically found on a lower case "h" "k" "d" and so on
descender: what extends below the baseline, a lowercase "p" "j" "g" 
arm/leg: an upper or lower (horizontal or diagonal) stroke that is attached on on end and free on the 
tail: the descender of a Q or short diagonal stroke of an R
eye: the enclosed space in a lowercase "e"
apex: the point at the top of a character such as the upper case A where the left and right strokes meet 
crossbar: the horizontal stroke in characters such as A, H, R, e and f
counter: the partially or fully enclosed space within a character
bowl: a curved stroke which creates an enclosed space within a character (the space is called a counter)
link: the stroke that connects the top and bottom part (bowl and loop) of a two-story lowercase "g"
ear: the small stroke that projects from the top of the lowercase "g" 
loop: the lower portion of the lower case "g"