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35 Examples of Vintage and Retro Typography You Need to See

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Here, we’re going to delve deep and dig out some of the most interesting vintage typography, all of which can inspire designers or even be used in your designs today. Skip forward again to 1890 when things start up again and typography started to become what we know of today. Examples of Vintage Typography.

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10 Best Creatives from Chicago

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The pair’s work has an emphasis on typography which creates distinctive and attractive work—whether it’s something tangible or something digital. Adé has worked for The Obama Foundation, UnderArmour, Facebook, has delivered talks and workshops for the past five years and has been showing his work in exhibitions since 2012.

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100 Amazing Graphic Designers to Follow on Instagram

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Araki Koman is a French illustrator and designer—who studied at Shillington London back in 2012. His design work is heavily research and often plays with typography to create something abundant and detailed. On top of that, he also runs the account Empersant , a design and typography joke page. Araki Koman. Renald Louissaint.

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50 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2020

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Typography is nothing if not a complex beast, tasking the designer to balance so many competing factors including hierarchy, order of reading, legibility and contrast, to name but a few. Type: New Perspectives in Typography by Scott Williams. Buy the book. Typographic Systems of Design by Kimberley Elam. Buy the book. Buy the book.

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Soirée Fantastique

Fonts in Use

For the book typography, Pané-Farré combined three typefaces. The fonts in use are various wood, brass, and metal types from the poster type collection of the HGB’s printmaking workshop. The photographs are reproduced from the five-volume album Das alte und neue Leipzi g. Photo: Florian Hardwig.

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59 Essential Books Every Graphic Designer Should Read in 2022

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Typography is nothing if not a complex beast, tasking the designer to balance so many competing factors including hierarchy, order of reading, legibility and contrast, to name but a few. Typography fan? Big Type from industry favourites Counter-Print is a celebration of typography-led design and identity work. Buy the book.