Typographe Poster inspiration

I came across this screen printed poster set, of white and black ink on a range of brightly coloured stock. I discussed with Sarah previously the idea of using an array of stock, but the white ink I thought too would look brill.

http://thedsgnblog.tumblr.com/post/36686267689/paul-leichtfried?ref=nf

Type Factory - Web design

The idea of icons representing peoples submissions:

http://designspiration.net/image/2302413024027/

An example of how to uses a spot colour on web, through images, shapes and text.

http://designspiration.net/image/2532205566293/

Type Factory - Timeline format

So we needed to start making the timeline poster so we looked at a few different ways we could lay out the information. I came across this double page spread which displays information in a similar way which I feel would suit our content.

http://www.paulfoxdesign.co.uk/index.php?/projects/dubai-properties-group/

Type Factory - Using spot colour

So we decided that we are going to screen print all the event promotional material. I came across this poster design by Maggie Chok and absolutly love her use of vibrant spot colour and the way shes layered text, with colour and folds, its something I want to potentially put across into our own designs.

http://www.maggiechok.com/Silent-Invasion

Type Factory - Poster Inspiration

For the poster design we wanted to keep things as simple as possible is terms of layout and content. The information provided is simple, to the point, and necessary. We came across the below image of a series of posters and wanted to produce something of a similar layout and similar simplciity. The range of stock too is something we want to consider as we are screen printing white onto stock.

http://designspiration.net/image/1798883038703/

Type Factory - Flyer and promotional material

http://2x4.org/work/17/Harvard+Art+Museum+/

Type Factory - Helvetica

Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann.

Haas set out to design a new sans-serif typeface that could compete with the successful Akzidenz-Grotesk in the Swiss market. Originally called Neue Haas Grotesk, its design was based on Schelter-Grotesk and Haas’ Normal Grotesk. The aim of the new design was to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic meaning in its form, and could be used on a wide variety of signage.

In 1960, the typeface's name was changed by Haas' German parent company Stempel to Helvetica in order to make it more marketable internationally. It was initially suggested that the type be called 'Helvetia' which is the original Latin name for Switzerland. This was ignored by Eduard Hoffmann as he decided it wouldn't be appropriate to name a type after a country. He then decided on 'Helvetica' as this meant 'Swiss' as opposed to 'Switzerland'.

Helvetica is among the most widely used sans-serif typefaces

Vesions exist for a range of languages including Latin, Greek and Chinese.

Type Factory - Didot

Didot is a name given to a group of typefaces named after the famous French printing and type producing family. The classification is known as modern.

The typeface we know today was based on a collection of related types developed in the period 1784–1811.

Didot is described as neoclassical, and is evocative of the Age of Enlightenment.

The typeface takes inspiration from John Baskerville's experimentation with increasing stroke contrast and a more condensed armature.

The "Foundry Daylight" version of Didot was commissioned and used by broadcast network CBS for many years alongside its famous "eye" logo. While the network's use of Didot with its logo is not as prevalent as it once was, it is still a common sight.

The Style Network uses a bold weight of Didot in its on-air identity and the News Gothic font too.

Type Factory - Copperplate Gothic

Copperplate Gothic is a typeface designed by Frederic W. Goudy and released by the American Type Founders (ATF) in 1901. While termed a "Gothic" (another term for sans-serif), the face has small glyphic serifs that act to emphasize the blunt terminus of vertical and horizontal strokes

The typeface is most often used in stationery, for social printing, and is classically seen acid-etched into glass on the doors of law offices, banks and restaurants.

The typeface was created by Frederic Williams in around the year 1905. He was born in 1865 in the city of Bloomington. He moves to Chicago in his early 20’s to work in real estate. In 1895 he opened a print workshop where he started to create his many typefaces and typographical designs.

The typeface is a Linotype, this means that it was used in a Linotype machine that was created in 1886. The typeface is classified as a serif typeface but it has similar characteristics of a sanserif. The stroke and with of the typeface is similar to sanserif, such as Univers.

Type Factory - Garamond

Garamond

Claude Garamond came to prominence in the 1540s, first for a Greek typeface he was commissioned to create for the French king Francis I, to be used in a series of books by Robert Estienne. The French court later adopted Garamond’s Roman types for their printing and the typeface influenced type across France and Western Europe. Garamond probably had seen Venetian old-style types from the printing shops of Aldus Manutius. Garamond based much of his lowercase on the handwriting of Angelo Vergecio, librarian to Francis I. The italics of most contemporary versions are based on the italics of Garamond’s assistant Robert Granjon.

When Claude Garamond died in 1561, his punches and matrices were sold to Christophe Plantin, in Antwerp, which enabled the Garamond fonts to be used on many printers. This version became popular in Europe.

Revivals of the Garamond type came as early as 1900

Digital versions include Adobe Garamond and Garamond Premier (both designed by Robert Slimbach), Monotype Garamond, Simoncini Garamond, and Stempel Garamond.

Examples of Garamond:

• All of the American editions of J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are set in twelve-point Adobe Garamond, except Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which is set in 11.5-point Adobe Garamond because it is longer.
• The popular Hunger Games trilogy is set in Adobe Garamond Pro, as is the Shiver trilogy by Maggie Stiefvater.
• A variation on the Garamond typeface was adopted by Apple in 1984 upon the release of the Macintosh. For branding and marketing the new Macintosh family of products,
• The logo of clothing company Abercrombie & Fitch uses a variation of the Garamond typeface.
• Also the Garamond text is used on 1985 Nintendo video game consoles in italic form

Type Factory - Typography Timeline

http://www.counterspace.us/typography/timeline/

We came across a brilliant website which outlines the history of time, specifying when things came about, the first ever signs of type and how its evolved. 

To Summarise, finding the most relevant:

1400 - Woodblock printing Europe 

1523 - Garamond Designed

1621 - First English Newspaper

1692 - Romain du rol typeface

1702 - First book designed using romain du rol

1757 - Baskerville Typeface

1780 - Bodoni

1784 - Didot

1816 - First sans serif typeface

1835 - Braille Invented

1845 - 1st Clarendon Typeface

1850 - Word type posters dominate

1886 - Linotype machine invented

1896 - Cheltenham designed

1901 - Copperplate Gothic

1904 - Franklin Gothic

1923 - Universal Alphabet

1927 - Futura

1928 - Gill Sans 

1932 - Times New Roman

1957 - Helvetica

1970 - Machine Typeface

1974 - American Typewriter

1982 - Adobe Software

1984 - Macintosh

1985 - Laser printer

1986 -Fontographer

2000 - Gotham 

Type Factory - Exhibition

Methods to exhibit.

I came across this exhibition online, which was held in China, and I just thought it was a brilliant way to exhibit work without actually attaching anything to the wall. Me and Sarah haven't got an exhibition just yet, but some may restrict us in attaching material to the wall space, so this is just one solution!

http://www.sinds1416.nl/blog/china-expo-2012

http://make-more-mistakes.tumblr.com/post/27543783262

Since were working with an array of typefaces we felt this would be an appropriate format for our posters, its a really clever idea and works with the topic of type, and type as image, but is still legible as a poster.

Type Factory - Publication Inspiration

After looking though many 'inspiration' website, i've gained a real new liking for all things type and layout, never would have thought I'd find words and layout visually brilliant. Below is just one example I came across, using an array of printing methods, finishes and really interesting layouts.

This below publication, with its layout and approach would be a brilliant way to direct our type factory publication material and something to consider.

http://www.sinds1416.nl/graphic-design/het-hooghuisreisgenoten

http://smadani.com/topshop-look-book/

I came across this Topshop publication, and felt it would suit our format of our publication as it focuses on many images of people work, this does just that being a look book. I also really like the use of several stocks and feel it would be a really nice aspect to give more to our own publication.