These are just images I found around the Internet and through research of just something that might inspire color or a juxtaposition of imagery. Certainly hand-drawn typographic textures with the idea of a DIY, something that had the maker's hand involved in some of the typography might be nice.
She published this book, "Compendium for Literates" by Swiss designer and artist, Karl Gerstner. It was around text and typographic as a kind of graphic event, translated into English. Now, at the MIT Press, there were too many books, as well, to give much attention to every book.
A lot of people. I was wondering if-- I find that I have certain typographical mistakes that I make, especially when I'm typing quickly, that bother me. And I was wondering whether a lot was a thing that you use to help correct yourself, or whether there are other mistakes like that you're
on the screen, essentially. on a two-dimensional surface by bold an Roman or type size or other kind of typographic relationships.
And when I saw that, because all the periodic tables I learned as a little kid had an extra line that ended halfway across. And I don't know if it's a typographic thing, but I feel like it's very, very satisfying have the nice, square, rounded-off shape. And it gives me this weird urge to sabotage particle physics experiments, so they don't synthesize element 119 and ruin the really nice justification.
I was doing was trying to spread the words out hoping that as, that my colleagues and I could figure out ways to use this spread out stuff. So, that's ten year ago. We'll of graphic structure, ok, is a standard typographic way of showing, of showing things. Certainly,
lead to something. I could play with this. So then I decided I need to get better at this drawing thing and I have always been very influenced by both typographically and with images and visually by older books. And I really, really loved old botanics and herbals.
Number two, the author would be the maker, contrary to the specialization mode, which makes the author of the content, the author, the author of the form, the designer, and the author of the craft, the typographic or printer. Number three, visual and verbal representation of the idea would be synthesized rather than separate.
on the screen, essentially. Then she proceeded to show this work, which is called "The Information Landscapes." And it was a proposal for an immersive typographic
So I'll hand over to Oliver now to talk a bit more about some of our design process. So this is me-- at the very beginning of the book, before we even start producing a lot of these maps, I'm coming up with a typographic palette,
So usually when I am making these menus that have text I will print the image first and the last thing that happens is the type is added at the end, a separate run. So, as I say, the organization of the book is the menus are chronological and the first ones that I made early on were really typographical. I didn't know how to do this linoleum work at that time, so I was setting this by hand, and metal type and using little type ornaments and that sort of thing.
And one of the exercises I often do with my law students and my non-law students is just pick at random terms of service agreement and print it out and actually read it. And, you know, how many times there are typographical errors, terms that are sort of, you know, capitalized but never defined anywhere. They're really quite bad documents.
Certainly hand-drawn typographic textures with the idea of a DIY, something that had the maker's hand involved in some of the typography might be nice. Cool books, DIY feel, and again, the creator's hand.