quotes on design

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time. — Robert Bringhurst

Words That Breathe

The workshop on type from the 2010 HOW Conference was a great little exercise thanks to the people from typecamp.org.

We all had to come up with a word that describes something that type does. These words then had to relate to the words the people directly on either side of us had come up with. First we drew the type spelling out the word. Next, we drew a version of it that describes the word itself.  Finally, we drew a version that was somewhere in between the other 2.

At the end, the instructor collected all of our type specimens and combined them into a video that you can see below.

I thought mine was kind of lame (what can I say? I’m not a morning person.) but there are some great ones in this. See if you can guess which was mine.

About the Author: Brian Parks is the principal of Parks Design. He's worked in design for over 10 years in some capacity. He also does freelance design and works as an in-house graphic designer in the corporate world. He loves wife Katie and daughter Sydney, his 4 dogs, and is an obsessed college football fanatic in the fall months.

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