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About Graphic Design
About Graphic Design contains the selected writings by renowned graphic designer, graphic design theorist and... -
Back Cover No.4
Fourth issue of Back Cover, a bilingual French graphic design magazine. In this issue: A Conversation with... -
The Typographic Matchmaking in the City
Typographic Matchmaking in the City project was a design research project investigating new approaches for... -
History, type specimen
Type specimen presenting History project. Inspired by the evolution of Latin alphabet, History is a...
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Type & Music
Georgi Sztojanov, a composer from The Hague, matched visual parameters of Greta Sans type system to musical parameters to create a musical composition. -
Typeface As Programme
Analysis of the evolution of typographic technology and the nature of digital fonts, and introduces Donald E. Knuth’s groundbreaking TeX and Metafont systems. An essay complemented by interviews with Peter Biľak, Erik Spiekermann and Dimitri Bruni... -
New and Improved
Nowadays ‘New and Improved’ often mean just tiny irrelevant changes, so we thought it might be good to talk about the development process that led up to the seventh “new and improved” version of our calendar.
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Designing Type Systems
Greta Sans was been planned from the outset as a system of interrelated styles. From the very beginning, work proceeded on multiple styles simultaneously. This text is a reflection on the process of designing large typeface systems. -
Nara – the typeface that never existed
The Nara typeface was completed more than 20 years after the initial design. This is the story of the search for gaps in type classification. -
Arabic Calligraphy and Type Design
This article presents the Diwani style of Arabic which lead to designing Thuraya, a contemporary yet faithful interpretation of the Diwani style with extensive calligraphic features. -
Conceptual Type?
In November 2010 Peter Biľak was invited to give a talk at a one-day conference ‘Conceptual Type – Type led by ideas’ in Copenhagen about the underlying ideas behind typefaces. This lecture questions the possibility of conceptual type and...
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