Project: On Typography
Project Type: University Assignment (GDES30003)
Year: 2023
This brief required us to engage with historical writings on typography and to use these as the starting point of our design outcomes. Each text was typeset twice, using the ideas of different historical type designers. The first step of this brief was to identify the key propositions of each text and analyse the author's ideas on how typography should function. The first design adheres to the author's ideas, and the second challenges them.
Text 1: The Crystal Goblet or Why Printing Should Be Invisible, Beatrice Warde (complements)
B-format 12-page booklet, designed in a way that considers the text using Jenson typeface.
Text 1: The Crystal Goblet or Why Printing Should Be Invisible, Beatrice Warde (complements)
B-format booklet of any amount of pages, designed in a way that challenges the text using any typeface/s.
Text 2: On Typography, Herbert Bayer (complements)
A4 format in any number of pages, single or double-sided using Futura typeface.
Text 2: On Typography, Herbert Bayer (Tschichold's views)
A-series sized paper, any number of pages, single or double-sided and use any typeface/s.
