Showing posts with label linotype. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linotype. Show all posts
 The Typographic Heart...

As mentioned in the previous post the brief for this project was to create an editorial piece on a process. I chose type setting and a certain piece of technology from the 60's, the Linotron 505 (check the last post for the video), this piece was a monologue of the video that was advertising this piece of futuristic tech. Trying to go more experimental with my spreads I kept to a two colour scheme and included a lot of overlaps. When setting out the copy a quote always stuck in my mind, "don't mistake legibility for communication" a famous saying by David Carson, I kept this in mind and overlayed my body copy similar to the images I used, you can however still read it if you know where to look.

Check out the images below:



 Linotron 505...

For the current project on my degree I have to look into the old styles of graphic design and processes that were used and put into an editorial piece, I'm particularly interested in the design industry before everything was easy to do sitting on a Mac. Looking through Vimeo at old typesetting videos I came across this gem, its a video of an old machine called the Linotron 505 from 1969, it seems so futuristic back then and even the commentary is really nostalgic.

Some of the imagery in the video is lovely and would look really futuristic back then, in this current project theres a lot of information and images that could be used inside the spreads, I really want to step out of my comfort zone in this unit and create a mental piece with some crazy layouts instead of my usual clean and slick layouts,

Watch the video below and keep posted for news on my new project:




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