Friday, 9 March 2012

Bruno Magg

Guest lecturer Bruno Magg

Song bird. Took the male song bird away from any other males and so that bird could not learn to communicate via another. However it still managed to develop a song similar to natural song birds. The need to communicate is within us.
Hyroglyphics
Each image is a word
100’s of years the language evolved from word images to single syable symbols.

The greek script evolved out of the hyroglyphics
Boustropheoan
Left right the second line is flipped. So two alphabets are needed
Branding a corporate identity within the roman empire as it was impossible to keep solider occupying the vast amount of land they owned.
They created a type. A perfect type.
Culture, script so than you knew it was part of the roman empire and once this was established they would then be able to move on.
450ad
the book of kelms – 4 scribs. 2 Italians more fluid, script. 2 Germans absolute precision.
calligraphy and art the trinity college in Dublin.
Vikings raiding the British isles. But it was saved.
Central and western Europe was _____ empires.
He established this script to be used throughout his empire

42 line bible by gutenberge – (1450 British library- London)
movable type- letterpress
meaning information could be industrialised.
100 years later 75% of the population could read and write, before this they were illiterate.

Alus manuses printer publisher writer. Roman type based on round hand calligraphy. Italics should be called cursith

Bruno Maag

Type setter, metal type, photo type and digital type. Typography and then graphic design.
New york magazine, inhouse mac production.

Company of 27 people – fonts
Not interested in colour, graphic design, flash.

Building their own font library, different languages western and eastern languages. About 750 characters and are able to communicate with half the worlds population- pretty cool.
Pacific place – curves shapes and open spaces. The typography reflects this.

Preserving the original design into each culture
India worlds biggest population 2013
Indian scripture is
850 characters
design and program challenge.
Indesign. The mechanism is difficult to get the font onto the paper
Design of the type has to fit the product.
Solving the clients problem and understanding their needs.
      needs to be softer.
Repetition needs to be re-worked and hand done
Maccys
2 characters with different variations of distressed else 

teutonia
to create the hand written feel 2 or 3 different characters for each letter helps it seem not as typeset

Manchester metrolink
Humanist appearance of the letterforms
Various thickness
Most signage is in sans-serif
Semi-serif
Details are important
Need to be easily legible
White space more important than the black space

DDA 1998 has to be accessible to everyone
Including people who are registered blind
Less ambiguity which makes each individual character legible

Strictly conceptual
HOno – 75% of all design decisions

npn    nhn     nvn     nen
opo     oho      ovo      oeo

decisions between calligraphy and typeface design
all the decisions upfront before even starting.

Needs to be looked at with fresh eyes

FontLab industry used tool
As few points as needed, points need to be on the extreme of the curve
10-15 print runs.
Spacing and kerning
Nnonoo an even distribution between characters
Nnanoao (spacing, left and right character space)

HTAH (kerning – specific pair ) reducing the amount of kern pairs In the font
Screen environment requires further work. Mac completely ignores all hinting used to correct pixels on a display
5,000-6,000 per font
pirate copies of fonts

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