This is a list of readings and links that relate to things discussed in class. This list will expand as the class proceeds.

Typography?

List of links that were shown in class
Twin Cities Celebration Project
LettError, (designers of Twin Cities font)
Typeworkshop
Bembo’s Zoo
Words at Play
Amaztype

The latin alphabet in latin hands

Alejandro Lo Celso and Gabriel Martínez Meave interviewed by Jean François Porchez.
Part 1
Part 2

Golden Section

Readings:

Jan Tschichold, Consistent correlation between book page
and type area. [See link below]
Walter Kaech, Rhythm and proportion in lettering [Rhythmus und Proportion in der Schrift], Olten und Freiburg im Breisgau : Walter-Verlag, 1956

Links:
Tschichold Essay
The Octavo Package by Stefan A. Revets [PDF]
The Return to the Classics by Pablo Rosell-González [PDF]
Papierformat from Wikipedia [in German]
Proportions: Theorie and Construction
The Essence of 8x11 Frame
Square Root of 2: Irrational, Yes! Impractical, No! by Ramakrishnan Menon [PDF]
Proportion in Nature and Art
The Golden Section
Golden ratio from Wikipedia

8:19 pm | February 27, 2005  |  filed in: TYPO2