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Jan Tschichold Notes
-Typographer, book designer, teacher, writer. - Was accused of being a communist and was arrested by Nazi Germany in 1933 - Modernist design principles - Most famous for his Fonts – especially Sabon...
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Herbert Bayer
- designed an environmental sculpture (Earthworks in Kent Washington) - product of the Bauhaus - created a universal type that reduced the alphabet to clear and simple constructed forms. – inspired...
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El Lissitzky
-graphic designer, photographer, typographer, architect, instructor, & painter - couldn’t go to Art School because he was Jewish- started in Architecture - Russian constructivism - painting style...
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Alexander Rodchenko
-painter, sculptor, photographer, graphic designer - born in Russia - works with a lot of geometric shapes – thick text, bright colors, unique compositions Alexander Rodchenko is a post from: Amanda...
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Piet Zwart
“Every era contains the conditions for providing a rebel” - born in the Netherlands - got into Graphic Design in 1919 - worked with the oblique (angles), very big on collages - experimented with small...
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Marian Bantjes
So I’ve discovered the astonishing work of Marian Bantjes, a canadian designer, and I am impressed to say the least. Not only is this cover to her book completely mind blowing, but the previews I’ve...
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New vs Old
I stumbled upon an article on Eye Magazine.com that talks about Monotype’s typographical adviser, Stanley Morison, who published an article about newspaper design (that I didn’t get to fully read...
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Accidental Mysteries
Here’s a really cool post I found on the Design Observer site. It talks about this German Book from the 17th Century that basically is just a compilation of different calligraphy styles applied to the...
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