The screen mimics the sky, not the earth. It bombards the eye with light instead of waiting to repay the gift of vision. It is not simultaneously restful and lively, like a field full of flowers, or the face of a thinking human being, or a well-made typographic page. And we read the screen the way we read the sky: in quick sweeps, guessing at the weather from the changing shapes of clouds, of like astronomers, in magnified small bits, examining details.Robert Bringhurst, from The Elements of Typographic Style (via viafrank)
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reference from sorted books - nina katchadourian
c-prints, each 12.5 x 19 inches, 1993
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composition from sorted books - nina katchadourian
c-prints, each 12.5 x 19 inches, 1993
Have I mentioned that I love Nina Katchadourian?
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Al Gore: politician, activist, typographer? Typotheque has posted a funny-but-true story called Gore’s Choice, here’s an excerpt:
I called Nikola, the author of the font, and informed him of the situation.
“Hi Nikola, Al Gore wants you to change the numeral one in Brioni.”
“Huh?!”
I explained, and Nikola agreed to make some modifications.
That same day, we sketched alternatives, printed samples, tweaked it a bit further, made new fonts, sent them to New York, and waited for the reaction.
Printmaker Abigail Uhteg has documented step-by-step the beautiful process of hand letterpressing, intaglio printing, and binding an edition of thirty-five books called “The Complex of Time”. So tactile!
An original manual for Die Neue Haas Grotesk, amended with the typeface’s new name - Helvetica
Creative Review - Inside the (new) Herb Lubalin Study Center
A Penny Saved is Not Much by Jon-Kyle
