Saturday, November 2, 2013

Typography and Life: a comparison



 Pages 81- 93

The reading discusses Eric Gill and Jonathan Barnbrook  as designers-as-authors.
Barnbrook's typeface names are hilariously odd; he states " naming a typeface is incredibly important because it is a chance to link the peotry of letterforms with the peotry of abstract shapes with the peotry of language."

This chapter interviewed:
Kenneth Fitzgerald
Anne Burdick

Must know:
Eric Gill
Jonathan Barnbrook
Jan Tschichold
Alexi Brodovitch
Paul Rand
Push Pin Studio
Octavo
Emigre
Ellen Lupton
Stuart Bailey

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