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While Slanted #13 dealt with contemporary and historical humanist grotesque fonts, Slanted #14 – Grotesque 2 focuses on current fonts that are in tradition of Lineal, Neo- or Geometric Grotesque.

They mainly have their origins in the time of the turn of 19th to 20th century. In 1880 Ferdinand Theinhardt designed the Royal Grotesque with four weights for the Königlich-Preußische Akademie zu Berlin, from which developed the Akzidenz Grotesque in 1918. Simultaneously, from 1905 to 1930, Morris Fuller Benton created fonts on the basis of Lineal Neo- grotesque: the Lineal Grotesque. Nowadays there can be observed different procedures of designing fonts, which can be named as quotations. A variety of fonts bear on historical models.

The type essays by Flo Gaertner (Karlsruhe), Robert Schumann (Berlin) and Anna Sinofzik (London) deal with them. Worth seeing photos stories are “Almost Europe” by Miguel Hahn and Jan-Christoph Hartung (Frankfurt am Main) who visualize the situation of refugees in the Spanish enclave Melilla, as well as »Ein Abend auf der Wiesn – Pictures taken during the great beer rush« by Volker Derlath (München). Numerous interviews with Lizá Defossez Ramalho and Artur Rebelo (Porto), Edwin van Gelder (Amsterdam), Marta Podkowinska and Karol Gadzala (Krakow) and Hans Gremmen (Amsterdam) as well as an article about Kiyoshi Awazu as well as the 4th part of the Tokyo Report, both by Ian Lynam (Tokyo) and a musical travelogue by Frank Wiedemann (Berlin) round up the stuff to read.

By the way: Slanted #13 and #14 are conceived as a double-issue featuring the wide field of grotesque fonts. The availability of issue #13 is limited. Get the last copies from our shop at www.slanted.de/shop.

This book conceived, written and designed by FL@33, present us with some amazing examples of type as an object in more than 1300 images and 300 projects. It doesn’t pretend to be (only) about typography, and should not be understood like that. To the purists of typography, the distinction between typography and lettering is well understood by the authors, that are mainly interested in showing what designers are doing with this trendy (we can’t deny it) 3D look, in the post-digital reaction.

As Andrew Byrom points out in the Forword:

Perhaps the term “3D” is out of place in this book. This is not the effect of three dimensios; These are actual objects. In relation to a 3D movie, the work that FL@33 has compiled here is theatre. There is no illusion. There is no need for blue and red glasses. This is type as object; physical and real.

It is mainly focused on contemporary works: Antoine+Manuel, Underware, Sagmeister, Marian Bantjes, but you will find there also some references to more pioneering projects of  the 40′s.

Here you can take a look inside the book

And there is even an iPhone site for more info at: 3d-type.com

Buy the 3D Type Book.

Tomás Valle, from Barcelona, just send us this great video.

From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands, all the way to the Z, ABC-3D is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 dimensional letters that move and change before your eyes is a treat. C turns into D with a snap. M stands at attention. X becomes Y with a flick of the wrist. And then there’s U… Boldly conceived and brilliantly executed with a striking black, red, and white palette, this is a book that readers and art lovers of all ages will treasure for years to come.

MARION BATAILLE is graphic and book designer who lives in Paris. This is just a hand-made mock-up of the actual book which publishes in Oct. 2008.

The book design review.

Spin has designed the new Logo Book, written by Michael Evamy, published by Laurence King.
352 pages of logo design history, since Paul Rand to modern days.

The next time you are tempted to design a logo, take a look at this book. Chances are, it has already been done. By raising the bar, this wonderful resource will make better designers of all of us.
Michael Bierut of Pentagram Design

Available right here at typeforyou shop, go get one!

If you haven´t seen it already, go and take a look at Mark Simonson‘s personal perspective of Adrian Frutiger.

Download the presentation here.

Lovely work here.

Book by Mike Perry.
Check out the typography section on his site. Very nice work.

A book by Zeixs, covering the topics Letterdesign, Corporate Identity, Corporate Design, New Fonts and Experimental Typography, featuring more than 600 works from a wide range of international typedesigners, ilustrators and calligraphers.

125 x 125 mm, 700 Seiten / pages, ca. 600 Abbildungen / approx. 600 Images.
gepolstertes Hardcover / wadded Hardcover
Deutsch / English / Francais / Espagnol / Italiano

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