Author: lindamayoux
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Image Resolution
Pixels and vector graphics There are two distinct ways in which your computer stores visual information digitally: you can have either pixel images or vector graphics. If you take a magnifying glass to any computer screen you will see that it is made up of tiny squares or dots. These are the smallest single components…
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Massimo Vignelli
Google Images Vignelli Associates website Massimo Vignelli (1931 – 2014) was an Italian designer who worked firmly within the Modernist tradition. He focused on simplicity through the use of basic geometric forms in all his work. He worked in a number of areas ranging from package design through houseware design and furniture design to public…
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Kurt Schwitters
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters (1887 – 1948) was a German artist painter, sculptor, graphic designer, typographer and writer. He worked in several genres and media, including Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, and what came to be known as installation art. He is most famous for his collages, called Merz Pictures. Studied at the School…
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Joseph Muller Brockman
Josef Müller-Brockmann (May 9, 1914 – August 30, 1996) was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He is recognised for his simple designs and his clean use of typography (notably Akzidenz-Grotesk), shapes and colours which inspire many graphic designers in the 21st century. Each letter has its own personality …the forms of letters can create simultaneously…
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Modernist Typography
Modernist typography emerged in Russia, the Netherlands and Germany in the 1920’s as part of broader art, architecture and design movements like Constructivism and Suprematism in Russia, Bauhaus in Germany and de Stijl in Netherlands. In 1950s designers in Switzerland developed a distinctive Swiss Style. During World War II many modernist designers fled to Britain and America to…
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Bauhaus
Typography One of the most essential components of the Bauhaus was the effective use of rational and geometric letterforms. Moholy-Nagy and Albers believed that sans serif typefaces were the future. Stencil by Joseph Albers: Albers designed a series of stencil faces while teaching at the Dessau Bauhaus. The typeface is based on a limited palette…
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Emigre Magazine
Emigre magazine was a graphic design magazine published by Emigre Graphics between 1984 and 2005; it was first published in 1984 in San Francisco, California, USA. Art-directed by Rudy VanderLans using fonts designed by his wife, Zuzana Licko, Emigre was one of the first publications to use Macintosh computers and had a large influence on…
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Robert Massin
Google images Robert Massin is a French graphic designer, art director and typographer who is notable for his innovative experimentation with expressive forms of typographic composition. Massin stopped using his first name in the 1950s. Biography (Wikipedia) Massin was born in 1925 in Bourdinière-Saint-Loup, a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in north-central France. He began…
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Concrete poetry
Source: edited from Wikipedia. References to be followed up and expanded as part of my exploration of experimental typography. Google images You Tube Concrete, pattern, or shape poetry is an arrangement of linguistic elements in which the typographical effect is more important in conveying meaning than verbal significance. As such, concrete poetry relates more to…
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Experimental Typography
The medium is the message Marshall McLuhan Do not mistake legibility for communication David Carson Tripwire online magazine Experimental Typography Cargo collective experimental typography Design Beep Webdesigner Depot PsdFan Experimental typographers Alex Trochut Meriem Marsli Notes from Teal Triggs The Typographic Experiment: Radical Innovation in Contemporary Type Design Experimental means ‘a valid means of rational…