Wonderfull sketches from the font foundry, Playtype, illustrate the intricate, detailed studies that are part of the process of creating fonts.
Peeks into Designing Fonts
Tag: designProcess
Stone Alphabet gets Digitized
Digital Alphabet in Stone – Dom Hans van der Laan/Autobahn 2011 from autobahn on Vimeo.
A alphabet used by stone masons in a German Abbey undergoes digitization, providing more flexibility to the masons that use it, and historical preservation to a typographic history.John Jay: On Creativity and Breaking from Comfort Zones
Ed Jacobs: Design Process Is No Substitute for Good Ideas
Ed Jacobs | Design Process from Confederate Motors, Inc. on Vimeo.
While recognizing the “Design Process” for its value, Ed Jacobs underscores the importance of a good, new, and intuitive idea as the foundation for any creation. Design process, in other words, can sometimes be a crutch for cookie-cutter ideas that lack a concept and the vibrancy that can move the end-users or audience.
A Quick & Comprehensive Type Guide
via zubeta.com
A lovely guide filled with typographic tips and the assertion: “95% of design is Typography; Deal with it!” Designed by Noodior.
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Peek into a Design’s Layers
It can be challenging for designers to communicate to non-designers the amount of work that can go into a good design. This peek into an event poster design is a great opportunity to illustrate part of the design process.
Designer Shelby White, aka Wanken, has generously shared a screen shot, or more aptly, the many screen shots that it took to show the number of layers in the file: 90 layers. File size: 618MB.
Design is a Way of Life
“Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.”—Paul Rand, from A Designer’s Words.
Those Willing to Get Dirty
via ffffound.com
The future belongs to the few of us still willing to get our hands dirty.
… with ink, paint, paper….
Letterpress—A video Ode
Letterpress from Naomie Ross on Vimeo.
This little video is brief and packed full of letterpress love, deliciously focusing on all the steps that make print magic.
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