When Karel Martens began studying art in Holland in the late 1950s, “graphic design” did not even exist as its own course of study. Today he is widely recognized as one of the most important practitioners of that very discipline, with an esteemed client list that includes major publishers,…
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P!: Karel Martens: Selected Letterpress Works
Insane in the Chromatophores
‘The video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the squid’s fin. We used a suction electrode to stimulate the fin nerve.’
90º - Typography Book
Handmade book by features typographic alphabet with letters presented in 3D using thread and stitching:
Kąt 90 stopni (90 degrees) is a book presenting a font style bearing the same name, designed in such a way that each of its letters can be displayed in a three-dimensional space. The letters are made of a string threaded through two sheets of paper perpendicular to each other. All twenty-six letters of the English alphabet have been created using this font style and put together to create this one-off book design.
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To understand is to perceive patterns
Lawless issue of Little White Lies Magazine - Woodcut printing
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Tauba Auerbach (b. 1981). How to Spell the Alphabet (2005).
Ink and pencil on paper, 30 x 22” (76.2 x 55.9 cm). Private Collection.
© Tauba AuerbachCurrently on view in MoMA’s Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language exhibition.
Installation using anamorphic typography
Thomas Quinn - Face Reality As It Is
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“If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they lose interest in the third act. You sort of get tired, and indifferent, and, sometimes, defensive. And you kind of lose your capacity for astonishment—and that’s a great loss, because the world is a very astonishing place. What I feel fortunate about is that I’m still astonished, that things still amaze me. And I think that’s the great benefit of being in the arts, where the possibility for learning never disappears, where you basically have to admit you never learn it.”
— Milton Glaser
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FF Chartwell is a tool for easily creating graphs, disguised as a font. It utilizes OpenType to interpret and visualize the data.
“This text and the one beside it are equal.” Lessons from this collaborative work by artist Micah Lexier and poet Christian Bok:
via Font Bureau’s Twitter by way of Booooooom, using a photo by Jacklyn Atlas.
- Composing can often be rearranging.
- Everything is material.
- Wastelessness is elegance.
- It’s more fun to do it with friends.
