Friday, January 29, 2010

What kind of experimental type shall I do?

Being that in this post-modern society/information saturated age, type is everywhere, and there's so much of it, what would it mean to create a typeface that would be readable but will kind of disappear to ease the eyes and make reading more fun?

Two ideas on that:
1. when type becomes art it's less type looking and more visual (it should still be readable though)
2. when you take a font, see how much of it you can subtract before it becomes illegible

Examples links of those ideas:
Logotype for Eyeglasses manufacturer, Tokyo, Japan by Tomato, UK

The Designers Republic

The Designers Republic by blog.eyemagazine.com

LUSH Magazine redesigned by Paul Sych

I'm interesting in advertising type and signage stuff that is more minimal and simple, that makes the world of reading a lot easier.

Here's some more examples where the type doesn't scream at you, instead it's part of the design:

The Designers Republic

Brody@Rocket Poster, Neville Brody

Neville Brody, Research Studios

The Designers Republic

The Designers Republic

Part of the Dubnobasswithmyheadman CD cover for Underworld, by Tomato, UK

Love these old Playstation graphics by The Designers Republic

Cover of the Offf Festival Design catalogue. Beautiful.

Some of that same typeface.

Alva-Alva.com

A poster I picked up at Offf 2009 for another design festival last September.

1 comments:

  1. I thought of you when I was looking at this project...you should check it out!

    http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Carved-Blox/400338

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