There are some important sort and graphic design archives opening in america and elsewhere, and the Hoffmitz Milken Middle for Typography, directed by Gloria Kundrup, is excessive on my checklist. Nevertheless, on condition that the HMCT is situated on the West Coast, it’s tough to maintain tabs on the multitude of its ingenious work from right here on the East Coast. That can change as we diligently report extra about rising design archives and collections.
One venture from HMCT, specifically, on view via Oct. 15, is Do You Have a Platypus? Should you miss the present, it’s ceaselessly out there as posters folded right into a broadsheet newsprint format. The endeavor encompasses a collection of discovered FAQs taken at random from web sites for established companies, establishments, on-line assist desks, cultural facilities, and many others., that hyperlink to a selected topic. Their authors and authenticity stay a thriller, evoking each amusement, confusion and shock.
Do You Have a Platypus? encompasses a collection of these FAQs typeset as they appeared—with no grammatical corrections—in chosen fonts designed by college students in Greg Lindy’s Font Design programs at ArtCenter School of Design. “Can twins learn one another’s minds?” “Why is it unlawful to promote a used mattress in Florida?” “Are giraffes authorities spies?”
Nineteenth- and early Twentieth-century sort foundries usually confirmed off their specimens utilizing out-of-context sentences, traces of poetry or nonsense sayings that give the type-user the chance to expertise the results of sure letter juxtapositions.
This exhibition and publication explores a Twenty first-century model of this “literary” letter custom: It asks whether or not typefaces can affect—and be influenced by—the quotes they’re set in. The scholars think about whether or not the font takes on a distinct character when expressing a sure quote, or whether or not the quote itself assumes a brand new significance when introduced in a particular font. The folded sheets of the publication add one other degree to the serendipitous typography.
Collaborating designers: Carson Chang, Olivia Chao, Hampton Duke Dunlap, Lauren Ebeling, Erron Estrada, Shin G., Nancy Gao, Erin Harpur, Alison Hochi, Carina Huynh, Samuel Kang, Alex Kasper, Faris Khedro, Soo Kim, Lavinia Lascaris, Cid Lee, Lingou Li, Kexin Lin, Peggy Luk, Evelyn Luu, Abigail Meza, Tiffany Ngai, Brian Ostroff, Gabrielle Pulgar, Roberto Rodriguez, Claudio Rodriguez Jr, Glenn Ryan, Fazel Sayeh, Charlie Jincheng Shi, Deb Shieh, Josse Slater, Jen Sorrell, Yuanyuan (Poppy) Su, Suzy Suh, Josiah Tersief, Vincent Than, Anna Thomas, Hsin Pin Tsai, Logan Vandergrift, Ana Carolina Vazquez Lopez, Jacobjohn Very important, Ke Wang, Zeke Wattles, Irene Wiryanto.
