Tag Archives: Typeface

Graphic design can change your life

Uncover handy analogies to music, the rhythm of spaces and the silence between characters with Erik Spiekermann who is talking with Gestalten TV about the process of designing typefaces, Graphic Design and it’s impact on everyday life.

Design, Erik Spiekermann, FontShop, Graphic design, Inspiration, Mass media, Publishing, Typeface, Typography

22 April Share your
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Shape My Language – a typographic exhibition by Bruno Maag

Under - Design, Inspiration, Typography

Shape My Language - Bruno Maag (Photo source: Oliver Schöndorfer)

Some amazing typographic work by Bruno Maag (Dalton Maag Studio) goes on display at the Walking-Chair Design Gallery in Vienna, Austria.

There are dozens of different script systems in use in the world today, giving shape to thousands of spoken languages. A typeface designer’s task is not only to visualize the emotion with which a message is spoken, but also to ensure that the reader can absorb the message with a minimum of distraction.

Shape My Language - Bruno Maag (Photo source: Dalton Maag)

Austria, Bruno Maag, Dalton Maag, Dalton Maag Studio, Design, Em, Font, Graphic design, Mass media, printing, Publishing, script systems, Technology/Internet, Type design, Typeface, typeface designer, Typography, Vienna, Walking-Chair

20 March 2
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Colosseo – a typographic rendition

Under - Art, Design, Illustration, Inspiration, Typography

Cameron Moll’s rendition of the Roman Coliseum is as engaging as all of his previous typography work has been. Painstakingly handcrafted character by character, the artwork took almost 12 months to finish totaling roughly 250 hours from start to finish.

Colosseo - Cameron Moll

Colosseo (detail)

Characters from the ‘Goudy Trajan’ and ‘Bembo Pro’ typefaces used in the artwork along with glyphs that Cameron recreated based on the work of master Italian calligrapher M. Giovambattista Palatino from around 1550 AD.

Palatino Glyphs Poster (detail)

Palatino Glyphs and Letterpress Posters - Cameron Moll

Letterpress Poster (detail)

Cameron Moll is a designer, speaker, and author living in Sarasota, Florida (United States) with his wife and four sons.

The best part is you can buy the Colosseo poster here if you like.

4 July Share your
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FF Seria Arabic

Under - Resources, Typography

Based on Arabic Nasekh style, Fontshop adds their first Arabic typeface FF Seria Arabic to their ever growing collection of fonts called ‘FontFont’. Designed by Martin Majoor and Pascal Zoghbi, FF Seria Arabic is an improved version of Sada.

The best part is:

FF Seria Arabic supports Arabic, Farsi and Urdu Languages and offers the choice between Arabic hanging figures, Indic figures, Farsi figures and Urdu Figures.

Read the interesting article at the Fontfeed.