Gary Baseman

Warning: This has very little to do with type.



I'm not a big fan of Gary Baseman but this I like.

Type in Motion: Thank You For Not Smoking.

I love opening credits that are thought out and executed well.

Martin Majoor.

Martin Majoor (b 1960, Baarn, Netherlands):

-has been designing type since the mid-1980's.

-attended the High School of Arts in Utrecht.

-Began working for Oce-Netherlands in 1986 where he researched and produced digital typefaces for laser printing.

-1988 completes Scala and Scala Sans for which he is most widely known.

-Later, FSI releases FF Scala as the first in its FontFont Library.

-1994 helps to design the Dutch Telephone Directory by creating Telefont List and Telefont Text.

-2000 develops the award winning FF Seria.

-has been teaching and lecturing since 1992 as well as writing articles for magazines like Eye.

-basically known as a book designer who says you must understand type completely before you can begin to develop and design book layout.

-Obviously very accomplished in Europe and aside from being a designer cares enough to teach and give plenty of well considered thought to design and type.

Follow the Line

I'm a sucker for judging a book by its cover and I generally have to explain to my 4-year-old why I'm checking books out of the juvenile section at the library. This weekend we found Follow the Line by Laura Ljungkvist.

I really love the idea of tracing existing faces to give them a hand-drawn quality without looking like handwriting. Some really simple yet engaging illustrations inside too. Check the link above for some of Laura's commercial work (along the same lines...not a pun, I swear).

Do Yourself a Favor.

Click here: mk12.com

And poke around until you find Brazil Inspired: Macho Box under in-house motion graphics.

You're welcome.