type study

Advantages for multiple columns:

They provide flexible formats for publications that have a complex hierarchy or that integrate text and illustrations.

How many characters for line length? Words?

75,  12

Why is the baseline grid used?

serve to anchor all or nearly all layout elements to a common rhythm

What are reasons to justify? Unjustify?

Makes efficient us of space, also creates a clean compact shape on the page and useful for newspapers and books.

When ugly gaps occur or if the line length is too long

What is a typographic river?

A river of white  or gaps in typesetting which can run through a body of text

Clothesline:

Hangline: An area across the top reserved for images and captions

Flowline?

Type color? Type texture? Light or bold aspects

How does x-height effect type color? Smaller x heights will appear darker or dense

New paragraphs? Rules?

Indent and line break

Line break and ½ line space

Outdent and line break

Extra space inside line

Symbol

Type crime Too many signals

Vik Muniz excersizes

WORD LIST

Unique                       varied

Obscure                      *representative

Authentic                   historic                      

Recreation                  motivational

*Iconic                        mesmorizing

Familiar                      distinct

*Recognizable

Peculiar

Massive

Artistic

*Resourceful

Documented

Diamonds

Thread

Materials

Food

Trash

Creative

*Communicative

Expressive

Well-known

Innovative

Different

Diverse

Inspired

Variety

Versatile

Meaningful

Storytelling

Insightful

Colorful

Famous

Renound

Inventive

Adventurous

Thoughtful

Memorable

Significant

Stimulating

Passionate

Suggestive

Dramatic

Expansive

Demonstrative

Iconic- adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an icon/ art executed according to convention of tradition.

Recognizable- to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.

Versatile-  capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various fields of endeavor, etc.

Communicative- inclined to communicated or produce impact

Representative- serving to represent or standing or acting for another or others

Varied- characterized by or exhibiting variety; various; diverse; diversified

COMPOUND WORDS

Inventive-variety

Authentic-recreation

Inspired-creativity

Mesmorizing-recreation

Inventive-documentation

Dramatically-executed

Vik Muniz research

http://vikmuniz.net/news

https://artsy.net/artist/vik-muniz

https://artsy.net/artist/vik-muniz/articles

Vik Muniz (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈvik muˈnis]; born in 1961, São Paulo, Brazil)^[1] is a Brazilian artist and photographer. Initially a sculptor, Muniz grew interested with the photographic representations of his work, eventually focusing completely on photography. Primarily working in series, Muniz incorporates the use of quotidian objects such as diamonds, sugar, thread, chocolate syrup and garbage in his practice to create bold, ironic and often deceiving imagery, gleaned from the pages of pop culture and art history. His work has been met with both commercial success and critical acclaim, and has been exhibited worldwide. His solo show at MAM in Rio de Janeiro was second only to Picasso in attendance records.

"The moment we write down an idea, we kill it – we take it out of the garden, and place it in a vase. I keep cultivating my ideas like in a garden: some of them die, some others I water so they remain beautiful. Some others cross my mind accidentally."

"I’m the Hugo Chaves of art world; I want to make something populist, to make something that anybody has access to"

Muniz is best known for recreating famous imagery from art history and pop culture with unexpected, everyday objects, and photographing them.^[6][7] For example, Muniz's Action Photo, After Hans Namuth (From Pictures of Chocolate), a Cibachrome print, is a Bosco Chocolate Syrup recreation of one of Hans Namuth's photographs of Jackson Pollock in his studio.^[4]

Muniz has spoken of wanting to make "color pictures that talked about color and also talked about the practical simplification of such impossible concepts". He has spoken of an interest in making pictures that "reveal their process and material structure", and describes himself as having been "a willing bystander in the middle of the shootout between structuralist and post-structuralist critique". He cites the mosaics in a church in Ravenna as one of his influences.^[8]

Muniz says that when he takes photographs, he intuitively searches for "a vantage point that would make the picture identical to the ones in my head before I’d made the works", so that his photographs match those mental images.^[9] He sees photography as having "freed painting from its responsibility to depict the world as fact"

Muniz works in a range of media, from trash to peanut butter and jelly, the latter used to recreate Andy Warhol’s famous Double Mona Lisa (1963) that was in turn an appropriation of Da Vinci’s original. Layered appropriation is a consistent theme in Muniz’s work: in 2008, he undertook a large-scale project in Brazil, photographing trash-pickers as figures from emblematic paintings, such as Jacques-Louis David’s Neoclassical Death of Marat, and then recreating the photographs in large-scale arrangements of trash. The project was documented in the 2010 film Waste Land in an attempt to raise awareness for urban poverty. Muniz explained the work as a “step away from the realm of fine art,” wanting instead to “change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.”

Fuse Designers

http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-gerard-unger

Gerard Unger was born January 22, 1942. He is a Dutch graphic type designer under fuse. He has developed many type faces as well as designs for magazines, coins, books, logos and stamps. He has designed type for the signage systems of Dutch highways and the Amsterdam metro. He has also taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy for over 30 years and has been a visiting professor at the University of Reading at the Department of type and graphics since 1994.

http://www.barrydeck.com

Barry Deck earned his MFA degree from California Institute of Art in 1989. His work still appears in numerous books and magazines. His most recognizable font is Template Gothic. He was one of the first designers to use computer tools for font desings. He held a large influence on graphic designers moving into desktop publishing. He soon learned that design without a plan means letting others drive your design interests. Deck set up his own company “Dysmedia” in New York and expanded his firm to a resourceful design consultant firm.

http://www.peterbilak.com/graphic_design_in_the_white_cube/elliman.html

Paul Elliman is a designer based in London. His work combines typography and the human voice  referring to forms of audio signage. His work has addressed the instrumentalisation of the human voice as a kind of typography, as well as imitating other languages and city sounds including non verbal messages. His work has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts as well as Tate Modern. 

http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-rick-vermeulen

Rick Vermeulen was born in Schiedam in 1950. He studied garphics at the Rotterdam Academy, graduating in 1972. He worked regularly for the publisher Bert Bakker and was a participant in Rotterdam’s Graphic Workshop where he produced material for cultural organizations. By 1993 he was an established teacher at Cranbrook CalArts and North Carolina State University. In recent years, Vermeulen has designed two typefaces for Fuse and collaborates with Inizio and workds on freelance projects for publishing and other clients.

http://www.frerejones.com

Tobias Frere-Jones is an American type designer who works in New York City. He currently teaches type at Yale School of Art MFA program. He joined Font Bureau, Inc. in Boston and created a number of typefaces and has been a senior designer for the past 7 years. He has designed several hundred typefaces for retail publication, custom clients and experimental purposes. His work has been featured in HOW, ID, Page, Print, Eye, and Graphics Inc.

http://www.designishistory.com/1980/neville-brody/

Neville Brody is an English Graphic Designer, typographer and art director. He is an alumnus of the London College of Printing and Hornsey college of Art. He is known for his work in the Face magazine and Arena magazine. 1977 his work and motivation was based mostly on punk rock. While in 1980-1993 he pushed the boundaries on visual communication in all media through his experiemental and challenging work with the visual language. Since 1994 he still continues to work as a graphic designer in London research studios.