think folds

An Anatomy of Uncriticism

-e- — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:45:18 +0000

Neat article by Alexandra Lange for printmag.com, I think you should go ahead and read it, it’s good for you.
Also the pictures are nice

Drawing Type

-e- — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:56:02 +0000

The anatomy of the letter

The skill of a type designer lies in the art of subtlety. A smidgen of extra stroke thickness can result in a completely different impression of the heaviness of a body of text. Poorly designed letters can appear as blemishes in the text. Letter shapes that have been used for centuries cannot simply be altered without affecting the complete picture. And we have not yet mentioned the habituation – or actually the conditioning – of the letter. In the past, radical changes in typography (in newspapers, for example) provoked some very serious reactions from the readers. The designer of typefaces intended for use as body types should be aware of this and should design right down to the finest details in form and counter form, in the black letter and the white space around it.

tr3

-e- — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:41:56 +0000

one day you will need this

track pair

-e- — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:36:46 +0000

disco of the day! Dubious cap A… but tolerance is key

counter comic

-e- — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:41:43 +0000

when house industries enthusiastically proclaimed the release of photo lettering I shrugged and continued on my way. Then they sent me a catalogue, all the way across the Atlantic Ocean so I thought I should pay attention. Also because they were offering a freebee.

But what is the point? It arranges letters for me so what? Then it dawned on me, it’s for the non designer, duh! So if you don’t have x-thousand fonts and need a sign/ logo/ whatever. Rather than just smacking out another comic sans label, you can get something decent for a couple of bob.

My freebee incidentally (might go on a bike):

tracking

-e- — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:18:24 +0000

here to help me remember names of faces a new series of A-Sixes

happy is key

-e- — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:52:08 +0000

this is what google says about my blog.
isn’t this great? well… made me happy

launch

-e- — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:55:29 +0000

bow 2

-e- — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:50:21 +0000

and then…

bow

-e- — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:32:23 +0000

Did you ever have this conversation?

– What’s your favourite colour?
– Rainbow.
– … hm…

…

– You know why?
– Na…
– Because that way you get all the colours.

…

– … you don’t get black

– … you do if it’s night

Anyway, spectrum of colours for an index
makes the 44 colour rainbow / makes remember / makes happy / makes post / makes reference