Category Archives: Fall 2018 Archive (336)

The film Helvetica, is a documentary produced by Gary Hustwit about typography in general; but also about the Helvetica as a typeface itself. In this film, many influential typographers and graphic designers provide their opinions on Helvetica and how they … Continue reading →

The piece I really enjoyed from our trip was I Beseech You by Carrie Mae Weems. I was drawn to this piece because I love photography. I think this piece is very relevant to my project because it features a … Continue reading →

The piece I choose from the MASC to talk about for this blog post, comes from a Chinese 19th century geography book printed on what looks like and feels like Xuen paper. My first impression of this book was quickly … Continue reading →

While a good drop-cap is nice, and this one has a very beautiful detailed design, that has a real presence on the page, I want to focus on the intro paragraph of this text.  I really love a well crafted … Continue reading →

While I wasn’t present in class the day we went to go look at the manuscripts I made sure I went to the the exhibit that they have set up right now and checked out the other font. The one … Continue reading →

This example that I found interesting during our library visit has some very unique characteristics. The page is portioned out to find the center for the type to be placed properly on the page and the guide lines are still … Continue reading →

I think that the example that I chose has the presence that it does because not only is the normal letter itself different from a general serif font like times new roman, but it also creates a more medieval atmosphere … Continue reading →

I thought this leaf from a book was interesting because of all the care that this page has seen. The calligraphy is very uniform and the x-height of the lowercase letters is remarkably even. There are no ascenders or descenders … Continue reading →

This san serif font printed on an air circus advertisement in the 1920’s caught my eye.  The simplicity of the letters follow the theme of the poster, which is to catch the attention and make it easy to read.  The … Continue reading →