Pictowords Semantic Typography: Semantic Typography

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“Pictowords”, with a foreword by Shutaro Mukai, presents a project Baumann & Baumann carried out together with eighty students over the course of eighty hours at the Musashino Art University, Tokyo. Countless word-pictures and pictorial words were created. The assumption arose that, in Japan, pictorial writing and thus visual thinking leads to an amazing variety of unusual, playful, matter-of-fact, impressive and sometimes surprisingly simple solutions when working … More >>

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Fluid Web Typography

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Type Spaces

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Type Spaces examines pages of books printed and published by Aldus Manutius in Venice around 1500. By measuring the word-spaces, author Peter Burnhill discerns a system of measurement at work and comes up with the surprising suggestion that this printing shows a unified system of dimensions: of type size, of “leading” or line-increment, of line length, and of text area. He argues that the exceptional figures of Manutius and his punchcutter, Francesco Griffo, used a … More >>

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