Typedesigner Interview with Chuck Bigelow of Bigelow & Holmes
Typeface designers Bigelow & Holmes are husband and wife team of Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes. I first meet Chuck and Kris at RIT during 2010 at the conference Future of Reading and meet up with them again in 2012 at the conference Reading Digital: what will the future of reading on screens be like. ...
The urban community as a communication vehicle for social and environmental change
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Technology and culture shape our expressions of visual language; an evaluation of the current sociological developments of contemporary urban societies can uncover ideologies that can be applied to the message of sustainable urban energy ...
Method or Madness
I’ve discovered some excellent typographic traits and considerations from David Carson, as well as April Greiman and Neville Brody. I have always admired the work of David Carson. His accomplishment in the design profession without formal training or a design degree is encouraging. It informs us that applying your own voice to design can bring ...
Poet of Type & Image: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, born a Hungarian boy in the small village of Borsod, Austria-Hungary. Moholy-Nagy had dreams of being a poet in his youth however he began painting once he reached his teenage years. In the early 1900s his paintings were figurative as he admitted to not understanding the movements of Cubism or Futurism and thought these ...