In the fourth installment of Lazy Blog’s space for type lovers, Alberto Perera guides you through a selection of new and emerging fonts and foundries, which we hope will prove useful for your upcoming projects.
Typography
Kindness as typographic style
Can a typeface be kind? For Steven Heller, who writes the foreword to Visual Voices for Change, the new volume by Typecampus published by The Printing Office, the answer is never obvious. From Adolf Loos’s j’accuse against ornament to the floral revival of digital fonts, the history of graphic design is marked by an unresolved tension between function and aesthetics, between rigour and visual pleasure.
The type corner #3
For the third episode of the series dedicated to type lovers, Alberto Perera once again offers an overview of some new fonts and emerging foundries.
The type corner #1
In this column, Alberto Perera is dedicated to reviewing new fonts and emerging foundries that are taking the market by storm.
The innovative design of the Jenson roman
An excerpt from the opening pages of «The Jenson Roman», an illustrated essay by Riccardo Olocco, which discusses the Roman typefaces used in Venice by Nicolas Jenson, one of the most successful printers of the 15th century.
The type corner #2
In this column, Alberto Perera is dedicated to reviewing new fonts and emerging foundries that are taking the market by storm.
The line as a metaphor for life
Taking the occasion of our re – edition of «Linea»,a delightful typographic children’s book originally published in 1999, scholar and typographer Alessandro Corubolo pays tribute to Alessandro Zanella, an extraordinary Veronese private printer, publisher, artist and friend.
In memory of Gerrit Noordzij (1931–2022)
Gerrit Noordzij (1931-2022) died exactly one year ago at the age of 90. He was an authority figure in the world of Dutch graphic design, still little known in our country despite the translation of his seminal text, The Stroke: Theory of Writing.
James Clough: Italian Signs / 3
Discovering examples of Art Nouveau letters such as these on the former Fiori hydroelectric power station in Sarzana is a pleasure, given the relative rarity of original signs of this type.
James Clough: Signs / 2
With the disappearance of so many artistic crafts, it is only natural that we return to an appreciation of what was handmade and has survived.