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9 resultsDesigning Fonts for Two Billion people
by Peter BiľakTypotheque tackled the unprecedented task of designing a comprehensive set of fonts for South Asia.The Importance of Play
Typeface stories by Peter BiľakIn the world driven by utility and performance, is there a room for open-ended typographic play system, that allows to discover something that was not entirely planned, something that the system hoped to allow, but could not guarantee?November Tamil: Designing with purpose
Essays by Aadarsh RajanNovember, October and November Stencil Tamil are a family of low-contrast, monolinear Tamil typefaces. Following a rigorous overhaul of the original, they have now been redesigned for better reading and unambiguous communication in text and display sizes.The Last Supper
Essays by Emily KingEmily King briefly looks at visual artists use of type, and their collaboration with designers in their work.State of the Arts publishing
Reviews by Stuart BaileyTwo books are reviewed and compared: one, a Phaidon book by Steven Heller on the history of avant-garde publications from the early 20th century on, the other, a glossier Taschen book featuring the recent design work of some 100 studios. Read on as Stuart Bailey puts the two in a ring together and hands Heller a very large pair of gloves.Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface, review
Reviews by Andy CrewdsonLars Müller is taken to task for his religious reverence for and faith in the omnipresent Helvetica, and the book he produced which is described as a sort of universalist, modernist gospel but several decades misplaced. What one might come away with from the book and review is the possibility that type preferences are simply individualistic... so what does it matter anyway?From Lettering Guides to CNC Plotters — A Brief History of Technical Lettering Tools
Essays by Florian Hardwig, Thomas MaierThis article highlights some major steps in the historical development of lettering tools for drafting.Graphic intervention
Essays by Steven HellerSteven Heller discusses the history and current state of guerrilla, activist and political design from posters to attached image files.New Faces (Chapter Four: London)
Essays by Emily KingThe fourth chapter of Emily King’s doctoral thesis which focuses on typeface design in the United States, England and the Netherlands between 1987 and 1997.