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John Baskerville was born in Worcestershire, near Birmingham, England in 1706. He developed an affinity for letterforms at an early age and by twenty-three he was teaching students penmanship and quickly becoming a skilled engraver of headstones. In 1738 Baskerville entered the japanning trade, where luxury goods were adorned with a decorative lacquer, and within a decade he had become a wealthy man with his own estate.

In 1436 Johannes Gutenberg invented the Printing Press, which had a major impact on both the Renaissance and printing today, however there other movable type systems invented before Gutenberg’s Printing

In my opinion, this typeface is special because it was created for the Golden Cockerel Press in 1929. Eric received his well-deserved fame for designing typefaces for the company. It is a simple typeface if you ask me and it’s notably easy to read which is useful for quick and effortless attention and to capture the audience.

If you never heard of Herb Lablin, well you will be finding out today about the amazing and famous graphic artist named Herb Lablin. Herb Lablin have the common name as the ‘’typographic grandpa’’ of his legacy of making popular graphic design. His work as a graphic designer focused mainly on ‘’typefaces’’ and how they could dramatically impact upon the message.

The type designer I chose is Paul Renner he was an graphic artist, type designer, author, and teacher from Germany in the late 1800’s early 1900’s. As he started his artistic road he began in the study of architecture and painting in Berlin, which led him to work as a painter. Then he cofounded a private school of illustration in Munich. He was also the designer behind the typefaces Futura, Plak, Futura Black, Futura Schlagzeile, Ballade, Renner Antiqua, and Steile Futura. These typefaces are still being used today in big movie titles.

After researching one of my favorite typefaces I decided to do it on Paul Renner who has had an impact on typography. Paul Renner was a well-known typeface designer. He was born August 9, 1879 in Wernigerode, Germany and died April 25, 1956 in Hodingen, Germany. He was also a graphic artist, type designer, a typographer and a remarkable painter and teacher. One of his most popular typefaces he designed is called Futura. The Futura typeface was one of the most successful and most used type of the twentieth century. Renner attended a Gymnasium, a secondary school where he studied humanities. Students that studied Greek and Latin for nine years which was what Renner did provided students with a ticket to higher education. What he chose after

Hoefler is a type foundry in New York created by Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere Jones. Before when it first started it was called Hoefler & Frere-Jones but in 2014 they separated. In all started in 1989 when they created typefaces for Rolling Stone, Harper's Bazaar, even The New York Times.

Graphic design set its first roots in Germany in 1455 with the introduction of the Blackletter typeface and Johannes Gutenberg’s Gutenberg Bible. Coined as the godfather of printing Gutenberg helped to spread Blackletter in popularity. With the advent of Martin Luther’s New Testament, however, a schism was created between those that chose to use

1989 the ITC Slimbach and Giovanni. There are different kinds of typefaces and ways in which

John Baskerville was an English engraver born in 1706. His love for letterforms started early, at the young age of seventeen John was engraving tombstones. By the age of twenty he had already begun first career as a printing master, teaching students penmanship. Around this time however, his style of penmanship did not resemble that of popular styles, John

I started to research more into Seb Lester, and then I found someone called Thomas Quinn. Thomas Quinn is an Anamorphic Typographer. The design I took an interest in, is the one that says “FACE REALITY AS IT IS”. This design

Joahannes Gutenburg, a German artisan, created the first movable type printing press. With this new invention the painstakingly long process of handwriting manuscripts became dated and unnecessary for most

Rotis Semi Sans Std is a typeface that was invented in 1988 by a German graphic designer and typographer Otl Aicher. All through his life Aicher was focused on design and found satisfaction in creating typeface that was legible and highly unified. All of his hard work and dedication allowed him to co-find the Ulum School of Design, which turned out to be one of Germany’s leading educational centers for design. Alas, the font Rotis Semi Sans Std came alive. The name Rotis Semi Sans comes from the name of the property where Otl Aicher grew up and worked. There are four variations of the font, the major difference between the families included the stoke and weight of the serif. It’s the perfect blend between Times New Roman and Univers. As mentioned

We begin with one of the most important factors, the designers themselves. Without the designers to create the style, there would be no style. Josef Müller-Brockmann was a leading figure of Swiss graphic design in the 1950’s and 1960’s. He began his path towards the Swiss style in the early 1930’s as a student of Ernst

He also worked at freelance in London between 1972 up to 1979. He is a member of the German Design Council board and past president of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) and the International Institute for Information Design (IIID). He is also a professor at the University of the Arts in Bremen and he received an honorary doctorate from Pasadena Center of Art. As a typographer, he has made many accomplishments in his life such as being the founder of the following typefaces: FF Meta, ITC Officina, Lo-Type, FF Unit, Berliner Grotesk, FF Info and many more.