Ray Larabie

I decided to do my paper on Ray Larabie who is known for his shareware/freeware fonts and is one of the biggest contributors to digital typography. He is a Canadian open and true type font designer born in 1970 currently living in Japan. He tends to specialize in sans serif fonts which are good for use in desktop publishing and graphic design titles/headlines rather than body text. His fonts have been used in several high profile projects such as Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne and the Price is Right.

Throughout time, there have been countless artists, designers and typographers that had the opportunity to make a bold statement, invent the next best thing or to engrave their name in the design industry for all eternity. Although ordinary people don’t realize a good design when they see it, they know it has attracted them somehow and they feel the need to ask and wonder how it came to be. Without question, Eric Gill has note ably revolutionized the type world. Without him there would be no benchmark for humanist typefaces; without Gill, there would be no Gill Sans, the font that will consistently be seen as a crisp, clean and readable font; as all typefaces should be. Despite for his one notorious face, he has created 11 typefaces, wrote

“Typography is a servant-the servant of thought & language to which it gives visible existence.”

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

They created type faces that we use now that well known. One is my favorite which is for one of my favorites which is Hoefler Text, Archer, Requiem, and the very well known Gotham. There type has been found in very famous advertisements such as the Obama campaign which used Gotham, the Apple Macintosh, and museums such as the Whitney and Guggenheim. This is a very important type foundry due to the these are one of the types that been around for

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

He became know with his involvement with experimental typography and magazine designs. Being the Transworld Skateboarding magazines art director he had to create distinctive links for the magazine. Graphic designing is critical for marketing and both depend on label design and bill board advertising, landmark in visual media has been witnessed in history over the past decade and these designers plays a crucial part in the growth of businesses. Criticism played a huge role in his work and to be able to succeed you can not take things personally. Carson would constantly look for new inspiration even is it means to create something out of his comfort zone, but he is always ready for new challenges. David’s work is more structured in the sense of planning, before

Morris graduated from Cornell university on September 1st, 1896 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He began working under his father, Linn Boyd, who was part of the American Typewriters Foundation. Benton’s job was to standardize the production of the merged foundries into one single archive. Doing this, he acquired well-defined knowledge and skills on lettering and design, which helped him to become one of the most incisive type designers in history. He began redesigning faces after studying typefaces which were mostly designed for old printing technologies. He would restructure them and make them ready for up to date printing of that time. Benton’s redesign work included fonts such as Bodoni, Caslon, Baskerville, Garamond and many more. Morris Fuller Benton “was one of the most prominent figures of the modern type design, not for the inventions of the first and the designs of the second, but also for the attitude that they had spread into their field in such a crucial moment, making its passage from an industrial model.“ Morris Died on June, 30th 1942 but he made sure to leave his legacy of

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

In the 1990s there was a new art movement that change the era of typography it was called the Grunge Typography. Grunge typography has become more popular during the 90s and it appeared to be a very messy and chaotic kind of design. Words, Textures, backgrounds that formed posters and ads for various things were designed in a very interesting and different typography style. The father of the grunge typography was an art director named David Carson. David Carson was known for designing various magazines and he became well known for his experimental, deconstructive typographic designs and art direction for Ray Gun magazine.

Considered one of the most influential typographers in history, John Baskerville made a significant mark on the world of print and type founding. Although considered a failure at printing during his lifetime he produced

Rudyard Kipling once said “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind” and boy I’m hooked. Throughout my entire life I have always been fascinated with typography even before I knew what a font even truly was. For the past few years I have been following the works of typographic designer Alex Trochut and his amazing work. His work can be seen on anything from famous magazines such as “TIME” and “Vanity Fair” to globally recognized names such as Katy Perry and Wiz Khalifa.

When Bodoni opened his first printing office for the Duke of Parma, he did so with type from Fournier, the French printer and publisher. In later years, the work of his great Parisian competitor, François Didot, influenced him dramatically. Bodoni was always dependent on the work of other, bolder contemporaries. Some may think that Bodoni was too influenced by Didot. While there are distinct similarities in the two designers’ work, and it is clear that Bodoni studied Didot’s designs carefully, a close examination reveals that the weight transitions of Bodoni’s designs are more gradual, and serifs still maintain a slight degree of bracketing. There is even a hint of old style traits in Bodoni’s fonts. Didot designs, however, are quintessential neoclassical fonts with geometrically precise hairline serifs and a rigid vertical stroke

Jobs in his freshman year dropped out of College and decided to take a calligraphy class that would change everything we knew about computers. “I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations”

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.