Richard Meier and Massimo Vignelli [above] video | Nowness When I was working in NYC, decades back, I’d linked to Richard Meier on the subject of typography and signing. The selected font of study, designed by another classical alphabet scholar and typographic...
The right type — communicating simple, elegant pathways in environmental graphic design. I was standing in the subway, NY Transit Authority (MTA) — the proverbial NYC subway system and thinking about the complexity of the way-finding system there. Frankly,...
The sense of time in brand: chronology, palaeography and theatrical accuracy. There are a grouping of writers that explore the concepts of typographic design and motion pictures. I’m one. While the notion of typographic precision, in design, is some what of a...
Exploring the idea of brand, storytelling, personality in the casement of simple typographic messaging Sometime back, we drew a font that we used for a series of soccer posters. We called it Girvenza — for Diadora. It looked like this: Simple. Italian. When it...
