Japanese typography. An essential player in the path to greater design for the Eastern Asia region. Consisting of one of the most complex and intriguing writing systems in existence, that began around 500 A.D. Japan’s type-roots began with the Chinese Kanji symbols.
Tag: typography
This 36 Days of Type Rendition Is Unlike Any Other…
With #36daysoftype finally coming to an end, I thought I’d share what seems to me like the OLDEST version of 36 Days of Type. There is arguably nothing more human than the alphabet, given that language, and particularly written language often tops the list of qualities which distinguish our dear species most distinctly from others. To form the letters of these alphabets using the human body is then, perhaps, not so strange a leap, and, in fact, seems to be rather appropriate. In their own varied ways, artists and scribes have been doing it for centuries. Below are a collection of highlights of the many twists and turns of this human font.
The Selection Of Type Is Just As Important As The Selection Of Words (1939-ish)
An “Alphabetical Index to Type Faces” from the G.A. Davis Printing Company. What it says on the tin, but also generator of bizarre ‘accidental’ sentences such as “Summer-time with outdoor pleasures become flowers with nature”, “Domestic animals are nuisance when a hurry to men”, “Strong type faces used cold north winds” and the occasional poem: “History repeats itself as the years pass / Internal injuries are weakening / Injurious statements make yonder river flows fast”.
