Two things: A video that shows how a magazine article is laid out and samples of the handwriting of influential type designers - A “two-fer for Tuesday” as some DJ’s used to say in radio . . . you remember radio? Radio when it was programmed by human DJ’s in real-time don’t you?
The “hot single” is this fun time-lapse video that documents a designer’s work shaping up a magazine spread.
I found this on Swiss designer Tina Roth Eisenberg’s blog.
Part two is this novel post by Cameron Adam from the The Man In Blue Web site.
Cameron says: “I asked a number of prominent typographers to send me a scan of their handwriting.”
An interesting experiment because these hands craft a great variety of symbols that enable rapid textual communication. The pervasive use of digital type and devices has certainly led to a world that seems to rely less and less on handwriting.
This is the sample from London-based typographer, Sebastian Lester of CustomFonts.com.
See more examples and over 80 comments in the well-illustrated post.
Pretty amazing to see the how original each hand is and how those strokes influence their work.
