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Leavin’ it out Lupton

By Michelle "Cortese", on November 17th, 2012

“Words originated as gestures of the body. The first typefaces were directly modelled on the forms of calligraphy. Typefaces, however, are not bodily—they are manufactured images designed for infinite repetition.” —Ellen Lupton, Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors and Students (2004)

This line—the first sentence of the second paragraph of Lupton’s [...]

November 17th, 2012 | Category: Books, Thinking with Type | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
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Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton

By Dexter Miranda, on September 25th, 2012

Much like Joseph Albers book on color theory, Interactions of Color. There are books on the subject of typography that are considered canonical text, like Emil Ruder’s Typographie, Jan Tschichold’s Die Neue Typographie, and Josef Müller-Brockmann’s Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele Gestaltung. The three books are what came to mind, when I read Lupton’s book [...]

September 25th, 2012 | Category: Thinking with Type | 1,845 comments - (Comments are closed)