08: Character Study
Type and Their Designers
Being a type designer is a trade all in its own.The 20 most important type designers according to Typophile.com
Jonathan Hoefler of Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Hoefler has designed original typefaces for Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Esquire since 1989 when he teamed up with Tobias Frere-Jones. Hoefler & Frere-Jones, since then, have created over 1,000 original typefaces. Hoefler’s “Hoefler Text” typeface was designed for Apple Computer and is now included as part of the Macintosh operating system.A tutorial created by Jonathan Hoefler
Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Designers Who Use Type (Sometimes Exclusively)
Art Chantry
Art Chantry is a graphic designer who is best known for doing posters and album artwork for bands like Nirvana, Hole, and the Sonics. Chantry is also known for his logo design as well.
Poster gallery of Art Chantry’s work.
Experimental Jetset
Co-founded in Amsterdam in 1997 by Erwin Brinkers, Marieke Stolk and Danny van den Dungen who previously met as classmates at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Their client list consists of Droog, the PTT and Stedelijk Museum in the Netherlands, Centre Georges Pompidou, the Purple Institute, and the fashion store Colette in Paris.
Other Resources for Typographic Posters
gigposters.comTypography Posters on Flickr
Aesthetic Apparatus
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Last Updated 19 July 2007 by Kirby Evans
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00: Overview
01: Introduction
02: Anatomy of Type
03: Rules and Controls of Type
04: Type Hierarchy
05: Typographic Grids
06: Type: Meaning & Compositon
07: Type Review (Mid-Term)
08: Character Study
09: Typography in Publications
10: Experimental Type: Shape & Form
11: Logotype Design
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