Month: November 2021

Type Foundries are companies that design and distribute typefaces. after designing a few fictional typefaces, it would only make sense to set up a type foundry to distribute them. And since most of these typefaces would exist as physical objects, the type foundry would focus on distributing typefaces as physical objects. https://www.are.na/block/14150592 https://www.are.na/block/14167779

Experimenting with some more 3D type https://www.are.na/block/14123466 https://www.are.na/block/14123468

In a mathematical version of Plato’s allegory, Carl Sagan tells the story of a square that lives in the two dimensional flatland, who gets launched into the third dimension by a three dimensional being. For the first time this two dimensional square experiences the third dimension. In my typographic experiments, there is an underlying desire… Continue reading ▲3

The term typographic fiction comes from Eric Brandt’s Garage wall poster project ‘Ficciones Typografika’; which is really a 24”x36” wooden exhibition space that where typographers and graphic designers can produce one-off experiments as posters that are wheat-pasted onto that wooden board. Brandt in an interview (2014) with the Medium explains what ‘typographic fictions’ are. He… Continue reading Typographic Fictions

Emigre No. 22 features an interview with Nick Bell (1992), a graphic designer and an alumnus of the London College of Printing. Bell’s experimentation with text and meaning has led him to challenge many paradigms of typography, the most important of which is legibility. A prime example of Bell’s work is ‘Psycho’, a typeface that… Continue reading What is a typeface?

1. https://www.are.na/block/14123081 Letterforms pretending to be articles of clothing, and facial hair 2. https://www.are.na/block/14123084 facial adornments made with letterforms 3. https://www.are.na/block/14123084 21 instagram posts with illegible type that form a humanoid sillhouette

Interview with Céline Hurka. 26/10/2021 Designer in question( https://2020.typemedia.org/celine-hurka/ ) S: I am interested in the ability to animate and illustrate within a font  development software like Glyphs, and In your project Version at typemedia, you’ve written about animation being an import factor in process of developing your typeface. Was animation something that was a… Continue reading Interview with Céline Hurka