Michael Wong: peasouper – journey through London
This publication uses the idea of transportation to illustrate our journey back in time to repeat our own history.
Category: Graphic Design
Miriam Brüggen: The real world of ideology
Interview with Miriam Brüggen for the Baseline blog, discussing the ISTD project ‘The real world of ideology’. An…
Chai-Lin Lin: ‘A life’s work’ – a tribute to Frutiger
The concept of this project aims to combine the best of both and bring to the reader’s attention the uniqueness and characteristics of his typefaces in hopefully an approachable fashion that appeals beyond the academics.
Ben Hunt: Multicultural London English
Multicultural London English (abbreviated MLE) is a sociolect of English that emerged in the late 20th century. It is spoken authentically by working-class, mainly young, people in London.
Teona Teodorescu: IN–BETWEEN
Transylvania is a territory that has changed its borders at specific historical times, having its character shaped by various migration waves of distinct ethnic groups. Because of this, it challenges concepts like identity, borderland, memories of the past and present realities.
James Etherington: Institutes of the Christian Religion – a tribute to Frutiger
So the book before you is John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion typeset in Univers. The first thing you likely notice are the concrete covers, they relate to the bare stone and moulded concrete formwork of the protestant churches, especially the more modern ones.
Vinotha Panja Pillay: ‘A life’s work’ – a tribute to Frutiger
Frutiger visited India to renew Indian typography in a manner analogous to the development of European typefaces. Here a question arises: why is it that Indian typefaces should be developed in a similar way to European typefaces?
Perry Harding: Adrian Frutiger’s ‘Univers’
The Univers typeface family stood out to me not only in terms of craftsmanship, but also in the sheer scale in which it had been expanded. My concept concentrated specifically on the numbering system which Frutiger used to name the variants of Univers…
Mason Terrill: Nobel Prize
I answered the ‘And the winner is…’ brief that aimed to celebrate the Nobel Prize. My idea was to give a very full account of the Nobel Prize. From cataloguing every person who won it, giving background on the prize, case studies on each subject, and odd facts about the Laureates.
Jamie Bitmead: Element Grotesk
During my research, I came across the book Adrian Frutiger Typefaces: The Complete Works, within which, I found a list of seven typefaces designed by Frutiger that never taken to production. Among these, was the typeface Element Grotesk.
Constanca Castro: Lusíadas
From the beginning I wanted to do something related to my hometown since ISTD is an international society and I wanted to take advantage of bringing some Portuguese culture and design into my project. I decided to work with a well-known poem from Luis de Camoes that glorifies the Portuguese people on their maritime way to discover India.
Learning from Letraset with Dan Rhatigan
Rub-down type transfer, such as Letraset, literally put typography in the hands of the people. It was made possible…
Graphic Means: A history of graphic design production
Advances in technology have made a plethora of activities in daily life infinitely easier and more accessible, but perhaps…
MIT Press – Jacqueline Casey, Art Director
In 1955, Jacqueline Casey (20 April 1927 – 18 May 1992) was recruited by fellow MassArt alumna Muriel Cooper…
MIT Press – Muriel Cooper, Art Director
In 2012 MIT Press celebrated it’s 50th anniversary, two years on we continue the celebration by marking the…
Paul Rand: Pioneer by Design
Paul Rand (August 15, 1914 – November 26, 1996) was one of the foremost American graphic designers of…
Dan Friedman: Radical Modernist
Designer, artist, educator and writer Dan Friedman (1945-1995) moved seamlessly between the disciplines that made up his dynamic,…
Frank Guille: Geometrics
Frank Guille contributed to Baseline 60 with his graphic letter compositions. They have clear, concise forms and are…
Michel Bouvet: So French
The September exhibition at ginza graphic gallery (ggg) will feature the works of Michel Bouvet, one of the…
Tour de France inspired art and design in Britain
Street Art by Stewy Tour de France is starting today in Leeds, Yorkshire. In the run up to…