How Canon brought Color to Life
Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.
A design process with an overwhelming love to details and a very high level of perfectionism.
[via Creative Journal]
“Klavierstück X” by Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him “one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music”. He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music, aleatory (controlled chance) in serial composition, and musical spatialization.
[Extract from Wikipedia]
I think this one is only interesting to those of you who like any kind of music and do not fear avant-garde and experimental approaches of compositions. All the others, please stop reading now.
Typographer’s Philosophy
Martin Majoor: My type design philosophy. ➟
In 1986 I graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Arnhem, with a serif type design called Serré. When I was given the opportunity to digitize it at URW in Hamburg in 1984, this became my first experience with computers. Serré was never released; but in hindsight, I realise it has provided the preliminary groundwork for my later typefaces. Subsequently I designed four major type families – Scala, Telefont, Seria and Nexus – adding new features with each new project. Yet, in all those years my ideas and principles about type design did not fundamentally change. Time for a personal retrospective.
If you are an ambitious type designer or yet another lover of great typographical work, you gotta read this one. Though written and edited 5 years ago, this essay has got a lot for you to learn and to think about. It’s not just a description of Majoor’s work but also give a historical lesson of typography.
[found inside of 8faces issue #2]
Fonts in Use
Fonts in Use: Type at work in the real World. ➟
So much of design critique is focused on graphics and photography. It’s time to shed light on the most basic element of communication: the type. At Fonts In Use we’ll catalog and examine real-world typography wherever it appears — branding, advertising, signage, packaging, publications, in print and online — with an emphasis on the typefaces used.
And if this is just “a prologue of things to come” it is even more impressive work than it would be without any additional content. It features the use of specific typefaces in print such as flyer designs or magazines. This article about a brochure series done for the Historic Royal Palaces is a very good example of how well this blog is curated by type designer Stephen Coles.