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just digging through some old bookmarks and found a good intro to typography.

enjoy if your into such things!

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a new feature length film about typography is in the works (too bad helvetica is the face of choice?) and i’m drooling.

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One of the most comprehensive [online] resources I can find for El Lissitzky. Another great typographical/constructional inspiration second only to Piet Zwart. Possibly Muller Brockmann.

Was tinkering around in photoshop tonight while attempting to catalogue and archive some of the design work I have done in the last few years (I always get distracted). I essentially loaded in a large number of source images from personal and professional projects into photoshop’s merge app, which is typically used to make panoramic images out of a few similar pictures. It basically tries to match edges the best it can based on similar colour and form, then blend them together to make a reasonable panorama. The (less detailed due to size) result of my experiment is above. It actually came out extremely big. I think I’ll work on it some more and try to make a poster from it. It’s a nice flash of history and i’d like it on my wall. If you click on the pic you’ll get a 1024×768 version. It leaves quite a bit to the imagination as the original is close to 10 thousand some odd pixels wide with numerous smaller images thoughout, with the blend being less of a hard line between images, but you’ll get the idea.

Kinda resembles north america in shape. No?

Anyway, enjoy, and lemme know what you think if you want.

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the link speaks for itself. courtesy of the adbusters crew.

Just geeking out to some typography. I guess i have a preference for a lot of the old dutch masters. Piet Zwart being at the top of my list. He is inspiring not only due to his contribution to letters, but was also an architect, teacher, interior, graphic, furniture designer, and photographer. He was well known for pushing visual boundaries and was linked to de Stijl in his views although never officially joined the movement. One of the few who could marry the functional with the aesthetically pleasing. Like all relevant artists (I say artist although some might argue that typography is left to the designer), he was very socially aware and his work was meant to reflect change, or at least the need for it. (more…)

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