Christian Boer designed the typeface Dyslexie because “reading printed text is so fluid and transparent for most people that it’s hard to imagine it feeling any other way. Maybe that’s why it took a dyslexic designer to create a typeface that optimizes the reading experience for people who suffer from that condition.” This link has a description of the typeface and an interesting video about how to make type more readable, even for non-dyslexics.
One of the most famous and earliest artists’ books is Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jeanne de France, with a poem by Blaise Cendrars and pochoir illustration by Sonia Delaunay from 1913. I got to see a copy, with all its spectacular color, once at a museum in San Francisco. (See a much larger image here.)
I’ve been working on a mobile recently, which I thought I might pochoir, and I remembered Delaunay’s piece. Turns out there was a recent exhibit of her work at the Copper Hewitt in NYC. The description of the exhibit says, in part, “a trademark of Delaunay’s work is the sense of movement and rhythm created by the simultaneous contrasts of certain colors.” Seems like a good place to look for inspiration for a moving piece like a mobile! Since the exhibit is closed and I’m not in NYC, I had to settle for these happy pictures of Delaunay’s use of color.
In this 2010 Penguin ad campaign Travel with Words, Meet the World below uses typography to evoke various places in the world. Originally found here. See the other posts about Penguin ads here.
As my husband and I continue our (seemingly never-ending) house renovation, there are a few really fun decisions to make — as opposed to the current sometimes mind numbing task of painting all the outside window trim. The most recent fun one was selecting house numbers — it was obvious where to put them, but what font to use? I knew I wanted a sans serif font, and quickly found Neutra. I especially like how these sit away from the house. I guess I’m still a California girl or just addicted to mid-century style, as the font was designed by architect Richard Neutra, who “in California, … became celebrated for rigorously geometric but airy structures that symbolized a West Coast variation on the mid-century modern residence.” (You can see the entire font here.)
 
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While looking for something on Amazon, I ran across a typography book for children that was new to me: The Serif Fairy by Rene Siegfried.
All the inhabitants and objects in the book are made from glyphs from four fonts: Futura, Garamond, Shelly Script and Zentenar Fraktur. You can see pictures from the book here |
In this 2009 Penguin ad campaign below, nothing fits into the hand like a book — certainly not an e-reader! — and nothing is more satisfying than a book you can’t put down. More examples are here. See the other posts about Penguin ads here.
