Zemni Design

Category: Typography

  • Type samples

      TASK Find as many examples of type as you can from a range of sources, including newspapers, magazines, flyers, leaflets and printed ephemera. Broadly classify them into serif and sans-serif groups. Explore your computer to see whether you have any of the typefaces mentioned on the previous page. Find other examples on your computer that relate to…

  • Typeface Design

  • International Swiss Style

    Overview Experimental Jetset Lars Muller Norm Wim Crouwel   edited from Wikipedia International Topographic Style The International Typographic Style, also known as the Swiss Style, is a graphic design style that emerged in Russia, the Netherlands and Germany in the 1920s and developed by designers in Switzerland during the 1950s. The International Typographic Style has…

  • Good Typography

    General overviews of standard ‘rules’   Chris Do from Futur Dynamic Design Shawn Barry  

  • James Goggin

    Practice website    archive It’s Nice That James Goggin is a Chicago-based British and/or Australian art director and graphic designer from London via Sydney, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Auckland, and Arnhem. Together with partner Shan James, he runs a design practice named Practise working with clients across Europe, Asia, Australasia, and North America. James has taught at…

  • Typography in InDesign

  • Typography in Illustrator

  • Typography in Photoshop

    Photoshop does not have so much flexibility in terms of vector type controls. But is better for projects aiming for artistic integration of type into images – for example Jabberwocky. Video tutorials Really good rapid overview of all type options in Photoshop  (in Hindi but I understand Hindi). Type on a path Good on the…

  • Runic alphabets

    Wikipedia Elder Futhark (2nd to 8th centuries)  The Elder Futhark, used for writing Proto-Norse, consists of 24 runes that often are arranged in three groups of eight; each group is referred to as an Ætt. The earliest known sequential listing of the full set of 24 runes dates to approximately CE 400 and is found…

  • History of the Alphabet

    Source edited from: Wikipedia History of the Alphabet Most or nearly all alphabetic scripts used throughout the world today ultimately go back to the proto-alphabet consonantal writing system used for Semitic languages in the Levant in the 2nd millennium BCE. Mainly through Phoenician and Aramaic, two closely related members of the Semitic family of scripts…