Type Love
I Love Typography
On Snot and Fonts (Luc Devroye, McGill University): “These pages offer over 50,000 entries with information on type design, type designers, the history and choice of fonts and typefaces, the mathematics of type design, font software, and typographic matters in general.”
Extreme Type Terminology
Video/Vimeo: Erik Spiekermann—Putting Back the Face into Typeface (about new visual languages, design processes, the analogies of music and typography, and why we need better client culture).
Readings
Mixing Fonts: Four Techniques for Combining Typefaces, Hoefler & Frere-Jones
Type Anatomy/Mixing Typefaces, Ellen Lupton
How to Choose a Typeface, Douglas Bonneville (Smashing Magazine)
Best Practices of Combining Typefaces, Douglas Bonneville
Mixing Typefaces (PDF)
29 principles for making great font combinations, Douglas Bonneville
Defining the Designer of 2015
Essential Competencies
Trends
Grids
The Grid System, Antonio Carusone
Aisle One — for all things Grid (An inspirational resource focused on graphic design, typography, grid systems, minimalism and modernism.)
Grids, Ellen Lupton
We don’t need new fonts… Peter Bil’ak
True to type: how we fell in love with our letters Simon Garfield
Matthew Carter Andrew Blauvelt
Defamiliarization: A Personal History William Drenttel
The Typeface of Truth Michael Bierut
Design Grids are not Mathematical Grids, Andrew Maher (on Typophile)
Resources
Typopedagogical—Denise Gonzalez Crisp’s website to support her textbook
Information Design
Edward Tufte
Visual Complexity
Catalogtree (NL)
MOMA Talk to me
Data Visualization, Modern Approaches
Hyperakt Studio
Nicholas Felton
Professor of Graphic Design
School of Art + Art History
University of Florida
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