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Typography Tuesday
Today, a few Art Nouveau alphabets from an early 20th-century Dutch manual for sign painters, as reproduced in ABZ, edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding, and published in San Francisco by Chronicle Books in 2003 (an earlier edition was published by Shambhala in 1993 as Alphabets & Other Signs).
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Typography Tuesday
Here are a few more alphabet designs as reproduced in ABZ, edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding, and published in San Francisco by Chronicle Books in 2003 (an earlier edition was published by Shambhala in 1993 as Alphabets & Other Signs). The alphabets from top to bottom are:
From a sign-writer's manual, UK, ca. 1900.
Untitled type designed by Dutch graphic artist André Vlaanderen (1881–1955) .
Lowercase Slender Roman letters from Hoffmann's Schriftatlas, Julius Hoffmann Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany, 1930.
Untitled alphabet by an unknown designer, Hungary ca. 1930.
Alphabet design from the sign-writer's manual Modèles de lettres pour peintre en bâtiments, France, early 1900s.
1935 typeface design by Morris Fuller Benton (1872-1948).
Gothic Special wood type designed for Hamilton Wood Type in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, 1906.
Bifur, designed in 1928/9 by A. M. Cassandre (1901-1968).
Peignot, designed by A. M. Cassandre in 1937.
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Here are some "Eastern" letter designs as reproduced in ABZ, edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding, and published in San Francisco by Chronicle Books in 2003 (an earlier edition was published by Shambhala in 1993 as Alphabets & Other Signs). The alphabets from top to bottom are:
Lettering designed by K. C. Aryan (1919-2002) from Calligraphy and Symbols, India, 1966.
"Japanese-style" lettering, date unkown.
Front cover of an Indian school book, ca. 1955.
Back cover of an Indian school book, ca. 1955.
Match box label, Japan, 1930.
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TIPPLER
Tippler, "Dusk to Dawn in the life of a Man-about-town, as shown by twenty-six different scenes, each decorating a letter of this tippler alphabet," was created by an anonymous designer sometime in the late 1930s or early 1940s. The set is reproduced in ABZ, edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding, and published in San Francisco by Chronicle Books in 2003 (an earlier edition was published by Shambhala in 1993 as Alphabets & Other Signs).
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Typography Tuesday
This week we present a few random alphabet designs as reproduced in ABZ, edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding, and published in San Francisco by Chronicle Books in 2003 (an earlier edition was published by Shambhala in 1993 as Alphabets & Other Signs). The alphabets from top to bottom are:
Alphabet by Slovak artist and educator Fridrich Moravcik (1916-1993) from his notable theory book Method of Creating and Arranging Lettering.
Typeface designed in 1965 by English typographer and graphic designer Edward Wright (1912-1988) to be use on buildings. Wright is perhaps most well known for the his design of the New Scotland Yard’s rotating sign (1968).
Typeface based on Standard Light Extended, a san-serif typeface in the Standard family developed in the early 20th century at the Berthold Type Foundry.
1940s German typeface by an unknown designer.
Preliminary drawing for Paul Renner's Futura typeface, 1925.
Gothic wood type by an unknown designer, ca 1837.
Edward Wright's preliminary drawing for a typeface, 1965.
French typeface, date unknown, designer unknown.
Hand-drawn typeface, designer unknown.
Alphabet from an early 20th-century, French signwriter's manual, Modeles de Lettres sur vingt ton de fonds differents.
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KAREL TEIGE
Presented here are the typographic photomontage designs by Czech avant-garde artist, writer, and designer Karel Teige (1900-1951) for the 24-poem sequence Abeceda (Prague, 1926) by his friend Vítězslav Nezval (1900-1958), featuring dancer Milča Mayerová (1901-1977). All were members of the Czech avant-garde group Devětsil (1926-1930). These images are reproduced in ABZ, edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding, and published in San Francisco by Chronicle Books in 2003 (an earlier edition was published by Shambhala in 1993 as Alphabets & Other Signs).
Teige's designs are a demonstration of his Constructivist aim to create a new "optical language, a system of signs capable of embodying words in graphic figures." They are a manifestation of what László Moholy-Nagy had called for in his influential 1925 Bauhaus book Painting, Photography, Film -- the dynamic combination of photographic image and lettering he termed "typofoto."
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Eye charts using letters of the alphabet, designed to test visual acuity and the efficacy of corrective lenses, were introduced in the 1830s. To increase optical distance in the testing room, some charts were designed with reverse letters and viewed through a facing mirror. In the 1860s the Utrecht optometrist Herman Snellen designed the first scientifically reliable charts for testing vision distance using carefully size-adjusted letters based on the typeface Egyptian Paragon. Sans-serif letters, having less visual distraction, were introduced later (Gill Sans Bold has been especially popular with British opticians). In the 1870s Snellen introduced charts with calibrated lines and abstract figures for young or illiterate patients. Eye chart designs all over the world are still based on Snellen's pioneering "optotypes." The economy and clarity demanded by its function gave the eye test charts a typographic formal and modernist elegance. View the captions for descriptions of each chart.
These images are reproduced in ABZ, edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding, and published in San Francisco by Chronicle Books in 2003 (an earlier edition was published by Shambhala in 1993 as Alphabets & Other Signs).
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A little Cyrillic, anyone? Today we present some Cyrillic alphabets, along with a couple of graphic usages, reproduced in ABZ, edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding, and published in San Francisco by Chronicle Books in 2003 (an earlier edition was published by Shambhala in 1993 as Alphabets & Other Signs). Click or tap on the captions for descriptions.
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