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Xnographics Studio from Barcelona, just send an email telling us about this great motion piece they´ve made.
Xnographics Studio from Barcelona, just send an email telling us about this great motion piece they´ve made.
Ascenders, arms, crossbars, counters, spines, shoulders, tails, stems and spurs, altogether there are over 20 components in the anatomy of type. There remains a gap in the vocabularly of this most respected of crafts, however.
In the designing or cutting of stencil letterforms, one is invariably brought to a point wherein the supporting canvas is joined to counter of the letter. Up until now, these supporting areas have gone without definition or label. A gross oversight by the standards of any industry, let alone one with as rich and respected a history as typography.
Continue over at thisisapylon.com.
I’ve been through some dvd’s and ended up watching the Quay brothers dvd again. It reminded me how beautiful the typography they use on their titles and sets is. Type is a very important element in all of their work and the animation is simply astonishing. Don’t miss it. Here are some tasty pics.


From France, Thomas Huot-Marchand gives us Minuscule, a typeface for extremely small sizes, which could be used under the commonly acknoweledged threshold of legibility (around 7 points). Five versions have been developed, optimized for a use in 6 (Minuscule Six), 5 (Minuscule Cinq), 4 (Minuscule Quatre), 3 (Minuscule Trois) and 2 pts (Minuscule Deux).
Minuscule received the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design from the Type Directors Club New-York, in the TDC2 2005 Type Design Competition (category Text).
Some videos (and also audio podcasts) of ATypI Brighton 2007 talks:
Oliver Linke
Gerald Fleuss
Humphrey Stone
Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley
Juliet Shen
Ken Garland
Karen Cheng
Yaki Molcho
Joe Clark
Check it out over at river-valley.tv.
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