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Library Exploration: Traditional Grids
Troy Typeface
Troy Typeface
A look into the Troy font and all it’s glory.
Taylor Wright
Nov 26, 2019
Unique Grids
Quite often, designers find themselves searching for ways to creatively utilize or break the grids that we so fondly attach ourselves to…
david soto
Nov 18, 2019
Modern Grid Poster
Modern Grid Poster
After conducting research through the Adobe Typekit I have made the decision to move forward with the typeface known as “Fairwater” for…
Melody Barron
Nov 18, 2019
Amador (2004)
Amador (2004)
In 2004, Jim Parkinson of Parkinson publishing company created Amador, a black letter font “designed in the spirit of the Arts & Crafts…
Lex Larios
Nov 18, 2019
Grids N’ Stuff
Grids N’ Stuff
I have friend, in the TXST COMDES program, who once talked to me about Emil Ruder saying he would be a persons name I should remember. The…
Daniel Rocha
Nov 18, 2019
Modern Grids and Creativity
Modern Grids and Creativity
It is difficult to discuss Modern grid structures in printed media without studying it’s Classical grid structures. Essentially, both are…
Matthew McClain
Nov 18, 2019
Modern Grids
Modern Grids
When exploring modern grids, I found myself particularily drawn to the Bauhaus, German styles. I like the look of the clean and simple…
Greta Marney
Nov 18, 2019
why milka is super cool.
why milka is super cool.
To start off, this particular font was founded by Lettersoup and was a digital extension to the alphabet designed in 1997 by the very…
gaby cruz- montes
Nov 18, 2019
Modern Grids
Modern Grids
After studying and working with Traditional Typesetting as a class, we moved onto the Modern Grids.
Kim Rios
Nov 18, 2019
Typeface For a Poster
The typeface I am using for my poster is called Tourette, it was created by a French type studio, Barnbrook, and draws from 19th century…
Nicole Petrekovich
Nov 18, 2019
The Givry Typeface
For creating my ID poster, choosing a typeface NOT from the type catalog was quite overwhelming. The list of typefaces is extensive so no…
Pamela Ochoa
Nov 18, 2019
FF Cocon
FF Cocon
Dutch type designer Evert Bloemsma created the script ‘FF Cocon’ for the publisher FontFont in 2001 to be a suitable font for advertising…
Elisabeth Klein
Nov 18, 2019
Modern Typography
Modern Typography
Modern typography and has evolved with the development of modern typefaces and type foundries. Its origins begin in Switzerland and in…
Annabel
Nov 17, 2019
Modern Grids
Modern Grids
When looking through the wide selection of books available at the library, one, in particular, caught my eye with its use of colors and…
Taylor B
Nov 17, 2019
Traditional Typesetting Booklet
Traditional Typesetting Booklet
The design process for Beatrice Warde’s essay, The Crystal Goblet (or Printing Should Be Invisible), using a traditional typographic…
Taylor Wright
Nov 12, 2019
Justified
Justified
Justified can mean different things, but in this case, it means how the body of the text is aligned. Justified text was widely whenever…
Kim Rios
Oct 23, 2019
Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training
Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training
By Chris Lamb
Melody Barron
Oct 23, 2019
Type Blog I
Type Blog I
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Elisabeth Klein
Oct 23, 2019
Population Day
Population Day
In today’s type world, typography is used just about everywhere. From the clothes you wear to the websites you view to the commercials on…
Rebecca Flores
Oct 23, 2019
Typography in the Real World
Typography in the Real World
The text above is a page from the book, Museum Skepticism, A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries by David Carrier. The…
Annabel
Oct 23, 2019
Typography: In Use
Typography: In Use
There is type in use all around us. Not only as a form of communication, type is used to covey mood, importance of the content, and…
Lex Larios
Oct 23, 2019
Classic Page Layouts
Classic Page Layouts
To truly appreciate what you have, it can often be of great benefit to understand the sequence of events that allowed you to be in a…
david soto
Oct 23, 2019
Blog#1
Blog#1
When in my Typography class my Professor wanted to take us to the library that way we could look at books that the librarian had picked
Daniel Rocha
Oct 22, 2019
Old Grid Styles
Old Grid Styles
In a lot of the old-styled texts that were made available to me, they all seem to follow a similar grid system where there was a large…
Taylor B
Oct 22, 2019
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