the 'H' book finally complete
Monday, 3 December 2007
Monday, 26 November 2007
typeface continued...
part of the typeface folded, as you can see i messed up position of the K so it reads as the wrong typeface
concertina
prototype of concertina A with times and helvetica typeface... didnt have sabon at the time I made it.
work in progress
looking more into contradiction... tschichold made two books that went completely against each other, i am creating a typeface that contradicts itself. using sabon univerz i have sliced the letters and put them together to for a new letter which is only properly readable when folded like a concertina, only then can you read the typeface as serif from looking at it from one side and the sans serif if you looking at it from the other direction
Tuesday, 20 November 2007
Friday, 9 November 2007
Tschichold...
Life
Tschichold was the son of a provincial signwriter, and he was trained in calligraphy. This artisan background and calligraphic training set him apart from almost all other noted typographers of the time, since they had inevitably trained in architecture or
Tschichold's artisan background may help explain why he never worked with handmade papers and custom fonts as many typographers did, preferring instead to use stock fonts on a careful choice from commercial paper stocks. After the election of Hitler in Germany, all designers had to register with the Ministry of Culture, and all teaching posts were threatened for anyone who was sympathetic to communism. Armed Nazis arrested him and his wife in 1933, and Soviet posters were found in his flat, casting him under suspicion of collaboration with communists. All copies of Tschichold's books were seized by the Gestapo "for the protection of the German people".[citation needed] After six weeks a policeman somehow found him tickets for Switzerland, and he and his family managed to escape Nazi Germany. Apart from short visits to England in 1937-1938 (at the invitation of the Penrose Annual), and 1947-1949 (at the invitation of Ruari McLean, the British typographer, with whom he worked on the design of Penguin Books), he lived the rest of his life in Switzerland.
Tschichold was the son of a provincial signwriter, and he was trained in calligraphy. This artisan background and calligraphic training set him apart from almost all other noted typographers of the time, since they had inevitably trained in architecture or
Tschichold's artisan background may help explain why he never worked with handmade papers and custom fonts as many typographers did, preferring instead to use stock fonts on a careful choice from commercial paper stocks. After the election of Hitler in Germany, all designers had to register with the Ministry of Culture, and all teaching posts were threatened for anyone who was sympathetic to communism. Armed Nazis arrested him and his wife in 1933, and Soviet posters were found in his flat, casting him under suspicion of collaboration with communists. All copies of Tschichold's books were seized by the Gestapo "for the protection of the German people".[citation needed] After six weeks a policeman somehow found him tickets for Switzerland, and he and his family managed to escape Nazi Germany. Apart from short visits to England in 1937-1938 (at the invitation of the Penrose Annual), and 1947-1949 (at the invitation of Ruari McLean, the British typographer, with whom he worked on the design of Penguin Books), he lived the rest of his life in Switzerland.
Jan Tschichold
I wasn't really too sure who this guy was to begin with and yes i know i should be ashamed. basically one of the legends of typography.funny looking chap that got into all sorts of trouble with the gestapo during the second world war over communist posters he had.he created the book Die neue Typographie which is basically an extremist modern design manifesto laying out proper structure to book design, typefaces etc.
Thursday, 18 October 2007
hunger strike
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Irish_Hunger_Strike
list of the men on hunger strike found on wikipedia
list of the men on hunger strike found on wikipedia
mapping project
As far as interesting maps go, I thought about using a map of the maze prison, however on the wonders of the internet I could not source a proper map of it. Even though the maze has now been closed for 7 years a proper prison layout has not made it onto the internet for obvious reasons I guess in that we may try to use it to plan a breakout. any how the closest thing to a map i found was an labelled military aerial view of the prison.
as far as research has gone, donvan wylies book "maze" has become very useful in getting a feel for the prison's bleak confusing layout. found quite a lot of useful information on wikipedia laying out the history of the maze. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_%28HM_Prison%29 what particularly caught my interested was the hunger strikes of the early 80s where the infamous bobby sands died after 66 days of not eating, the reason being a protest for the prisoners to be see as political figures and have special privilages. I managed to find a photograph of the hunger strikers
also managed to find a few layouts of the infamous h blocks
as far as research has gone, donvan wylies book "maze" has become very useful in getting a feel for the prison's bleak confusing layout. found quite a lot of useful information on wikipedia laying out the history of the maze. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_%28HM_Prison%29 what particularly caught my interested was the hunger strikes of the early 80s where the infamous bobby sands died after 66 days of not eating, the reason being a protest for the prisoners to be see as political figures and have special privilages. I managed to find a photograph of the hunger strikers
also managed to find a few layouts of the infamous h blocks
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